Bill Nye evangelizes the US population toward evolution with this video that's received over 3 million views in just over a week. I've provided a couple of quotes from it below the video.
"Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science, in all of biology. It's very much analogous to trying to do geology without believing in tectonic plates. You are just not going to get the right answer. ... Your whole world is just going to be a mystery instead of an exciting place. As my old professor Carl Sagan said, 'When you're in love you want to tell the world.'"
"I say to the grown ups: If you want to deny evolution and live in your world that's completely inconsistent with everything we observe in the universe, that's fine. But don't make your kids do it because we need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need engineers that can build stuff and solve problems. It's just really a hard thing. It's really a hard thing. In another couple centuries that worldview, I'm sure, just won't exist. There's no evidence for it."
You think this might be shown in a few schools? Share your thoughts on the video, pro or con.
One doesn't need evolutionary beliefs to do chemistry, biology, mechanical or electrical engineering, or the 'soft' sciences of psychology, counseling, ethics, etc.
Just isn't neccessary!
Make me wonder why Bill Nye the Science Guy is such an apostle of the "THEORY."
Could it be he doesn't want to have to deal with the pesky morals that arise when we acknowledge a creator?
Posted by: Clark Dunlap | 09/01/2012 at 12:35 PM
Was interesting that he was trying to convince us that believing in evolution and building things are connected.
Posted by: Steve McCoy | 09/01/2012 at 12:39 PM
He seems to think that creationism will be gone in a short time. But creationism has been around for some time, and quite frankly, even a cursory study of birthrates suggests that belief in a Creator and in some form of providence in creation and of teleology isn't going away any time soon.
Posted by: Matresspolice | 09/01/2012 at 10:13 PM
I think Bill Nye is out of touch with the nature of the debate.
His main appeal does not make sense. If I don't believe in evolution I should at least teach my kids to or else I am causing them to grow up to be irresponsible tax-paying citizens who will never be engineers?
If I believed that my kids should believe in evolution, wouldn't that mean that I believed in evolution, in which case, what are we talking about?
It also denies the fact that tons of engineers (pick me) and doctors currently don't believe in evolution (that is, that all species have a common ancestor, not the principles of natural selection and the tendencies for the most fitting phenotypes to be retained in a species). I work with engineers who don't believe in this kind of evolution, I had professors who don't believe in that kind of evolution.
My point is that disbelieving in the type of evolution Bill Nye is talking about does not prevent people from pursuing intellectual jobs. That was his point and the point... does not have evidence to support it.
Evolution can be debated on its own merits, but Bill Nye doesn't do this. I have great respect for him. He is a very gifted educator, who is instrumental in making science seem as interesting as it really is to children. I used to watch his show religiously as a child. It was a favorite. Nonetheless, I just think he is not contributing anything meaningful to this discussion.
Posted by: Ben Mordecai | 09/02/2012 at 10:37 PM
As an engineer who "builds stuff and solves problems," I strongly disagree with Nye. Even my creation-disbelieving co-workers would not think that my faith in Genesis 1-2 harms my work performance.
He's right in saying, "when you're in love, you want to tell the world." That's the reason that I teach my kids about the God of the Bible, the preeminence of his Word. That's why I will give them a worldview that doesn't diminish love to mere chemical sensations that help us survive.
Hopefully the church will have an increasing presence in every profession (especially among scientists and public educators). And those members will be equipped and motivated to reason from the Sriptures with their colleagues and apprentices and expose inconsistencies and subconscious faith commitments among non-believers.
"Questions of science; science and progress
Don't speak as loud as my heart" (Coldplay, "The Scientist")
Posted by: Wes Hagerman | 09/04/2012 at 10:58 AM
Ken Ham responds.... :)
http://marccortez.com/2012/09/10/bill-nye-the-humanist-guy-vs-ken-ham-the-creationist-man/
Posted by: kevin peterson | 09/11/2012 at 09:05 AM