Posted on 01/07/2014 1:56:15 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Tickets for the upcoming debate on the viability of creationism between "The Science Guy" Bill Nye and Creation Museum CEO and President Ken Ham sold out within minutes, but information has been released for how people can still watch it via live streaming.
"Sorry, all tickets for the debate with Bill Nye sold out within minutes!" Ham posted on Facebook on Monday, when the $25 tickets for the Feb. 4 debate at The Creation Museum's 900-seat Legacy Hall in Petersburg, Ky., went on sale.
The debate will center around the question: "Is creation a viable model of origins in today's modern scientific world?"
The debate will still be available via live video stream on the day of the event for $4.99. Other options include video download and DVD preorders.
Nye, who came to be known as "The Science Guy" from his 90's children's TV show, advocates for evolution and has criticized teaching creationism to children on a number of occasions.
"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," Nye said in a September 2012 interview with The Associated Press.
While he has said that people are free to believe what they want religiously, he has warned that teaching creationism in textbooks could be an obstacle to producing scientifically literate students.
Ham, who supports a literal interpretation of the creation account in Genesis, has argued that Nye "doesn't understand the difference between historical science and observational science."
"This debate will help highlight the fact that so many young people are dismissing the Bible because of evolution, and even many young people who had grown up in the church decided to leave the church because they saw evolution as showing the Bible could not be trusted," Ham has said about the upcoming debate, asking supporters to pray for him.
According to Answers in Genesis, of which Ham is also the CEO and President, both Ham and Nye will have the opportunity to deliver "the best information currently available" for their respective cases, and then they will have the chance for rebuttal and to answer audience questions.
In the meantime, evolutionists will be happy to note that the Creation Science Museum is in financial difficulty:
EXCERPT:
In a recent fundraising letter, Answers in Genesis (AiG) President Ken Ham claimed that the organization’s theme park’s current financial woes were “an indication of the immense spiritual battle we are in.”
To open the Kentucky attraction, which would include a full-scale, 510-foot-long model of Noah’s Ark, AiG must sell $29 million in unrated municipal bonds by Feb. 6 to avoid triggering the redemption of the $26.5 million of bonds that have already been sold.
Bill Nye The Lying Guy will be destroyed in the debate.
Stacking the audience with lefties, no doubt.
Our church learned of this a week ago and we are praying for Bill Nye’s salvation
So what if the Earth is really about 4 billion years old and God used evolution to produce man? Doesn’t change my faith in Jesus as the Son of God at all.
RE: Doesn’t change my faith in Jesus as the Son of God at all.
Well, the Young earth argument goes like this:
1) Jesus is God
2) Therefore He is infallible
3) Jesus believed in a LITERAL Adam and Eve (Mark 10:6-9)
4) Jesus believed in the Torah ( of which the book of Genesis is the first book ).
5) The Book of Genesis tells us that God created Adam “out of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.” ( Genesis 2:7)
Ergo, if man arose through billions of years of random evolution, Genesis 2 cannot be true, if Genesis 2 cannot be true, then what Jesus taught cannot be true, THEREFORE -— Jesus is fallible, therefore, He is not God.
Thanks. My position exactly.
Technically speaking, neither Adam nor Eve are mentioned in Mark 10.
As much as I think Nye is a moron, and comes across as incredibly creepy whenever he’s on T.V., he’ll likely win this debate to obligatory media fanfare. Now, if someone would take him on for his global warming BS, he’d be decimated.
Having an entire month to raise that $29 million in Ark Bonds should not be all that difficult.
RE: Technically speaking, neither Adam nor Eve are mentioned in Mark 10.
So, who are these “Man and woman” that God made that Jesus referred to?
And oh BTW, Jesus believed in the HISTORICAL FLOOD during Noah’s time.
Matthew 24:36 “For just as the days of Noah were, so the presence of the Son of man will be. For as they were in those days before the flood, eating and drinking, men marrying and women being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark; and they took no note until the flood came and swept them all away, so the presence of the Son of man will be.”
And of course, the Old testament RACED Noah’s lineage to Adam.
It would be stretch to say that Jesus believed in a historical Noah and yet, not believe in a historical Adam.
You are using quotes around “Man and woman.”
Actual wording (AV: “But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.”
There is a big difference between referring to a split of the human species from the beginning into “male and female,” and a claim that the entire species is descended from a single man and a single woman.
Still it says God made them male and female.
In other words, the creator is GOD -— GOD MADE.
Also, the New Testament tells us that Jesus Himself commissioned St. Paul to be his APOSTLE.
Adam and Eve show up in the Pauline Epistles, mainly in Romans, 1 Corinthians, and 1 Timothy. In these epistles, Paul affirms the historical record that Adam and Eve existed, the same way the Old Testament affirms their existence.
For instance, Romans 5:
“Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned– for until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come” (Romans 5:12-14, NASB).
In short, the New Testament AFFIRMS the LITERAL existence of Adam and Eve.
Unless of course, you want to change what St. Paul wrote and make it metaphorical...
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Meh, I think it will depend on which side one is on. People will see what they want to see in this one and hear what they want to hear. Both sides will claim the other side was “destroyed”.
Having said that, I hope it’s a true debate and not just some poop slinging contest. Could actually be interesting.
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