Bill Nye slams creationism

[cbayer]

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/27/bill-nye-slams-creationism/comment-page-17/



By Eric Marrapodi, CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor

(CNN)–Famed TV scientist Bill Nye is slamming creationism in a new online video for Big Think titled "Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children."

"Denial of evolution is unique to the United States," Nye begins in a YouTube video posted on Thursday. The video quickly picked up steam over the weekend and as of Monday morning had been viewed more than 1,100,000 times.

Nye – a mechanical engineer and television personality best known for his program, "Bill Nye the Science Guy" – said the United States has great capital in scientific knowledge and "when you have a portion of the population that doesn't believe in it, it holds everyone back."

"Your world becomes fantastically complicated if you don't believe in evolution," Nye said in the Web video.

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[Goblinmonger]

1. God-damned militant new atheists.

for the impaired.

[trotsky]

2. Bill Nye is full of awesome.

When Chuck Norris dreams, he dreams of being Bill Nye.

[CrispyQ]

3. From the article:

The Gallup Poll has been tracking Americans' views on creation and evolution for the past 30 years. In June it released its latest findings, which showed 46% of Americans believed in creationism, 32% believed in evolution guided by God, and 15% believed in atheistic evolution.

That certainly explains a lot.

[cbayer]

4. And those numbers have not changed much over the years.

The question I have is how we can impact on it.

Politically, I think we have to challenge and defeat lawmakers who are corrupting the teaching of science to our children.