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| Bill Nye (Photo: Doobie Jefferson) |
video titled "Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children."
In fact, Bill Nye seemed downright ominous in his exhortation to parents concerning their children's education. The gist
of Nye's warning was that parents are entitled to hang on to their "crazy" Creationist views, but they are not entitled to pass these views on to their children. In Nye's
estimation, that's because "we need them [the kids, that is]. We need
scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future… we need
engineers that can build stuff, solve problems."
Nye called evolution "the fundamental idea in all of life science" (that's one way of looking at it) and compared (what he believes to be) the
limitations of Creationism with "trying to do geology without believing in tectonic plates." (And so we ask the good professor: Does one really have to piece continents together in order to meaningfully study rocks?)
As if this video weren't emphatic enough, Nye added the following during what eSchool News describes as a "wide-ranging telephone interview": If we raise a
generation of students who don't believe in the process
of science, who think everything that we've
come to know about nature and the
universe can be dismissed by a few sentences
translated into English from some ancient text,
you're not going to continue to innovate. After reading this, "dadoffive" commented: "Classic
misrepresentation of an atheist. Christian
scientists who 'failed to innovate' include: Copernicus, Bacon, Kepler, Galilei, Descarte, Pascal, Newton, Boyle, Mendel, Kelvin, Planck, and Einstein, to name a few…"
Point made. (Although
it can be debated whether all of these scientists were indeed Christian…)
Resources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Nye
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gHbYJfwFgOU
http://www.eschoolnews.com/2012/09/25/bill-nye-warns-creation-beliefs-threaten-u-s-science/
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