Bill "The Science Guy" Nye Says Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children 1774
timeOday writes "BigThink has released a video missive by Bill Nye ('The Science Guy') in which he challenges the low level of acceptance of evolution, particularly in the United States. He does not mince words: 'I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world, 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 people that can — we need engineers that can build stuff, solve problems.'"
Re:prove your memory (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Not so sunny (Score:5, Funny)
Please tell me you are some kind of time lord from the past and have just entered our time-line so you could post that comment.
I think I'll spend the rest of the day prying my palm from my forehead.
Re:So which field of engineering (Score:0, Funny)
In a way, all. Engineering is built upon science, which is itself built upon observations and reasoning. To reject the sound observations and reasoning as lies undermines the scientific process altogether.
I say this as a believer in intelligent design, which is consistent with both science and God.
Re:So which field of engineering (Score:5, Funny)
Genetic engineering. We induce mutations via the same mechanisms they occur in in nature (e.g. mismatch repair, retroviruses, etc) and increase their frequency through selective pressure. That's evolution.
Actually, that is intelligent design. No doubt your mutations tell themselves you don't exist and they created themselves by evolution.
Re:So which field of engineering (Score:5, Funny)
Also, structural engineering, materials engineering, when you factor in biomimetics.
Also, software development, with each new language we mus master we continue to evolve into more hideous creatures with each passing day.
Re:Yes! (Score:5, Funny)
Mommy, what did they do in Sodom that was sinful?
They taxed the job creators.
Re:So which field of engineering (Score:5, Funny)
So, this bacteria is sitting in this petri dish that's been sitting on a lab bench evolving increased toxin resistance for many generations, and he says to another bacteria "You know, someone created all this. His name is Bill Nye, and he hates the weaklings among us who can't tolerate the presence of XYZ. That's why he created all this, so he could weed out the weak, and someday, he'll pluck us from this place and bring us to Heaven, to serve his purpose."
So, they fired him from his engineering job because he was clearly crazy.
Re:Yes! (Score:5, Funny)
Bill Nye is awesome.
Of course he's awesome. He's awesome because God made him that way. And God clearly made him to test our faith. So he's awesomely like Satan, really.
Re:Don't have to believe in evolution to build stu (Score:4, Funny)
"we need engineers that can build stuff, solve problems"
Even people who don't believe in evolution can still become engineers who "build stuff, solve problems"
Not without a fair amount of mental gymnastics. I've always wanted to sit in on a "Christian Science" class and answer all the questions with "Because God wills it to be so". Seems like an easy A.
Re:Yes! (Score:5, Funny)
While he's awesome, I wonder how this made it to the front page of Failblog before it made it to Slashdot.
You must be new here. Welcome.
Re:Yes! (Score:5, Funny)
"Mommy, what did they do in Sodom that was sinful?"
Sodomed liked there was no Gammorah.
Re:Don't have to believe in evolution to build stu (Score:4, Funny)
Yep, from what i hear a hand full of people can build an ark that weighs close to 9000 tons out of gopher wood in about a week's time and fill it with 100,000+ animals with food and shelter for all for over a year with only hand tools...
Re:So which field of engineering (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I disagree; Bill is an idiot. (Score:5, Funny)
Questions (Score:5, Funny)
Mommy, what did they do in Sodom that was sinful?
If the practiced Sodomy in Sodom, did they practice Gomorrahy in Gomorrah?
Re:Yes! (Score:5, Funny)
While he's awesome, I wonder how this made it to the front page of Failblog before it made it to Slashdot.
Don't worry. /. will make up for this by posting it several more times in the next few days.
This is the kind of thread... (Score:5, Funny)
This is the kind of thread I save my Mod points for...
Awwww crap I posted.
Re:So which field of engineering (Score:4, Funny)
I am working on a degree in Chemical and Biological engineering and we definitely use evolution. There are even computer models now based on adaptation speeds for things like resistance to drugs etc.
Evolution is critically important to modern biotech work.
How do you feel about the fact that Creationism conferred an evolutionary advantage to its adherents?
Re:I disagree; Bill is an idiot. (Score:5, Funny)
Creationism is just a symptom of a much more fundemental problem.
I see what you did there.
Re:Questions (Score:5, Funny)
If the practiced Sodomy in Sodom, did they practice Gomorrahy in Gomorrah?
I'm not sure what they did there, but I've heard that God punished the mankind with gomorrhea for that, for all of us to remember.
Re:Yes! (Score:5, Funny)
I wouldn't say everywhere. A lot of middle-easterners see their god as being a cross between a roid-raging bodybuilder and an incredibly insecure teenage girl.
Re:Yes! (Score:5, Funny)
Ah. Ancient puns.
Behold, a haiku:
Rabbi's sermon much
Too long, congregants sleep and
Thus he can Babylon
Re:Yes! (Score:5, Funny)
I didn't know what to tell him... the only thing I could come up with was something like "...but... what about all the bones...?"
Oh oh oh, I know this one: "They were sent there by Satan to confuse and test us."
Re:I disagree; Bill is an idiot. (Score:5, Funny)
Obviously, the education system is the work of the devil. Those degrees are only signs of how high you are in the devil's rankings.
(I feel like I'm gonna pay for that comment somehow...)
Re:I disagree; Bill is an idiot. (Score:5, Funny)
Creationists: Putting the Fun, Duh, and Mental in Fundamentalism!
Re:So which field of engineering (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Questions (Score:5, Funny)
Sounds like an asshole to me.
Well, people all around the world create their gods in their own image. Naturally, some of them end up with an asshole god.
Re:Yes! (Score:5, Funny)
I have a similar story from my own childhood. One summer, when we were driving through Osoyoos, the VW Rabbit overheated and we needed to stop and get it repaired. This was in the late '70s, and "foreign" cars breaking down in small towns was cause for a serious over-charging at the service station. A thousand dollars later, we're back in the Rabbit heading up the steep hill on the Crowsnest Highway heading east. It's a steep climb out of the desert, so we're all on tenterhooks to see if the car is actually repaired. Mom is seriously pissed about the overcharging, but when she looked back at the evil city she turned into a telephone pole.
Re:Yes! (Score:4, Funny)
I guess that's what you get when you take a job away from a Union thug by buying a foreign car. I remember a similar incident in the early 80's but in a Toyota. A bunch of road workers were directing traffic and one of the leaned into the pickup and said, you took a job away from an American worker when you purchased that foreign piece of crap. My uncle who wasn't well know for being quick on his feet, noticed his job was to hold the slow sign and quickly replied with, well, I can replace your job with a bucket of sand. Several years later, the road workers went on strike because they heard the Japanese had developed a kickstand for a shovel and looking back, we realized it was all because that one worker turned into a bucket of sand.
Um... (Score:5, Funny)
Sounds like an asshole to me.
Well, people all around the world create their gods in their own image. Naturally, some of them end up with an asshole god.
So are we still talking about sodomy? I'm so confused...
:-P