Unmasking Evolution's Magic Words by Randy J. Guliuzza, P.E., M.D.
Posted on 08/27/2012 1:42:32 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
In a clip posted to online knowledge forum Big Think via YouTube, former children’s show host Bill Nye spoke out against the denial of evolution, saying such views harm young people especially and hamper scientific progress.
Nye, who hosted the educational show “Bill Nye the Science Guy,” which aired on PBS Kids from 1993 through 1998, made the statements in a clip posted online on Thursday, and has since been viewed over one million times. In the clip, Nye praises the United States for its contribution to technological innovation, but says that the denial of evolution is unique to the country.
“People still move to the United States. And that’s largely because of the intellectual capital we have, the general understanding of science,” Nye said in the clip. “When you have a portion of the population that doesn’t believe in that, it holds everybody back, really.
“Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science, in all of biology. It’s like, it’s very much analogous to trying to do geology without believing in tectonic plates. You’re just not going to get the right answer. Your whole world is just going to be a mystery instead of an exciting place,” he added.
Nye made a three-stop tour through New Hampshire earlier this summer to tout President Obama’s education policies while making a push for science and engineering programs. He has endorsed Obama’s reelection bid.
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What a surprise. PBS hired and made famous a radical secularist. He also thinks that people who "deny" Global Warming are anti-science too. He'd make a great spokesman for Stalin's Ministry of Science, just like pretty much everyone else who works for PBS.
“Evolution” is a “carefully” protected State Religon.
Bill Nye
Wants me to die
Bill Nye is not a scientist.
No worries. Evolution-deniers, global warming-deniers, Obama policy-deniers, TSA-complainers, etc. will soon find a happy home in a local Homeland Security re-education camp.
“God is dead.”
- Bill Nye
“Bill Nye is dead.”
- God
My church teaches creation, but it doesn’t deny evolution.
Nye is pretending there is a fundamental incompatibility, when there isn’t.
Still I’d like to get him to acknowledge that the hear to “evolution” is natural selection, and that essentially means “survival of the fittest.
Then we’d learn that “fittest” is defined as “that which most readily survives.
Thus, evolution is a tautology, meaning it says essentially nothing (it’s conclusion merely restates its premise).
Has Mr. Nye defined the term “evolution” as he claims we deny it?
“Evolution does not explain Creation.” - Charles Darwin
Oh, so we should do what they do in other nations... Execute women and gays? So we're no longer unique?
I know very few evolution “deniers,” but I know a lot of folks unsatisfied with Darwin’s theory that the process is governed entirely by randomness.
The theory commonly known as “intelligent design” is actually a fairly profound and scientifically rigorous approach to answering the question, “Is evolution entirely random, and if not what is governing it.” Intelligent disign theorists welcome this debate, but, true to form, the left runs from intellectual debate and hides behind name calling and invective. Bill Nye’s defense of Darwinian theory by attacking others has more in common with religious devotion than does the theory of intelligent design.
“My church teaches creation, but it doesn’t deny evolution.”, YOU need to find a new church. If a “church” cannot get Genesis right then EVERYTHING else they “teach” is suspect.
I believe in micro-evolution. A genus of birds can live or die, based on their climate and the impact it makes on them. However, seeing a dinosaur “change” into a bird thoughout millions of years is just fantastically idiotic to me.
So, I’ll believe in the word of God of Bill Nye the “Science” Guy. Thanks.
Evolution as a process of nature is not a problem, it is Evolution as an idealology that is the issue.
It's actually the other way around. The false assumptions that have stemmed from the theory of evolution have held back science.
One example was thinking various human organs were vestigal when now we know that they all have function. Had they not made that false assumption based on evolution, they might have discovered the functions earlier and improved medical care as a result.
Another was the infamous "junk dna". We now know that junk dna has various functions including second and third higher level cell programming functions.
Evolution as a process of nature is not a problem, it is Evolution as an idealology that is the issue.
Again to preemptively clarify that Eolvition as a process is just a re-stating of Natural Selection and natural law.
Ths FULL name of Chuckie Darwin’s “work”: “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.”. He was NOTHING but a RACIST!
Nye has exposed himself as a leftist punk. Like OJ, the “nice guy” meme is merely a crafted image divorced from reality. Bob
How can I deny it?
Its still just an unproven theory, right?
“Would any one trust in the convictions of a monkey’s mind?”
Really? Saudi Arabia believes in evolution? Nigeria and Congo believe in evolution? Most countries in the world still believe in witchcraft.
Nye has always been a piss poor science teacher who thinks he is wonderful. He was and is a persona that was created.
Too bad a REAL scientist, ala an moon walk astronaut, is not available to talk about real science (physics etc.)
Nye is exhibit A as a failure of science education. (without even touching the creationist theology stuff)
Meh...Nye is just angry because he has no idea how life began.
“Odd” how scientists proclaim to know exactly how life began but are unwilling to on record in the case of a pregnancy to identify WHEN life begins. MILLIONS of observable pregnancies and there is no conclusion.
Well, of course there is the goal of keeping abortion on demand a legal option.
Like forcing a Catholic university to provide "free" birth control? Like instructing kindergartners in the concepts of same sex "life-partners"?
Because that's not a scientific question. Scientists can tell you a lot about how life begins and develops, but the question of when in that process life has begun is a moral, ethical and theological question, not a scientific question.
Or in other words, "Don't fill you kids' heads with that superstitious god crap".
If he isn't going to be pressed on the "G" question, then why cover the "rest" of the controversy?
If God did not create the universe, is Bill suggesting that God was "surprised" by the Big Bang? God(s?) "sprang forth" from the Big Bang? Or God doesn't exist?
Or is he willing to consider that "evolution" was of God's creation?
He stumps that "only America" persists in such beliefs. Really? No other nationality or religions have faith in God as creator?
Not until this bunch discovers that 'hot steamy pot of primordial slime' can evolution be taken seriously.
So long as public education is by law required to teach this fairy tale to our young, this nation will never end abortion as the scientific methodology for birth control.
Because that's not a scientific question. Scientists can tell you a lot about how life begins and develops, but the question of when in that process life has begun is a moral, ethical and theological question, not a scientific question.
The proper teaching on creation is found in the Torah, including the reason for the harmonious design of DNA. The Double Helix has much to teach us about Ethics and Sexuality, but this can only be perceived through the lens of a Hebrew understanding of the Universe and can best be expressed in Hebrew. One thing that Christianity did get right is that “In the Beginning was the Word,”. Information always precedes fabrication, Always.
Too bad we can’t post excerpts from The Onion. They did a great article on this guy a few years ago, “reporting” that Nye had died in a vinegar-baking soda explosion.
“Palestinians” believe in evolution. They teach school children that Jews are descended from the offspring of pigs and monkeys.
“My church teaches creation, but it doesn’t deny evolution.”, YOU need to find a new church. If a “church” cannot get Genesis right then EVERYTHING else they “teach” is suspect.
I’ve heard it put thusly: If Genesis is a myth, then sin is a myth. Look around.
Bill Nye is an engineer. Not a science guy.
They conflict. Which one do you believe?
I did not know there was a conflict however I will err on the side of safety.
I believe the Bible when it says that God created the earth in 7 days and it just looks like it is millions of years old. Just like a newly created Adam would look like he is twenty years or older.
We have to stop your dissent because it is harming the children!
So it isn’t a life until the moral police who don’t believe in a “God” concept decide it is a life? On what basis? Preserving a “right” to abortion on demand?
It is a simple question. And observable. Life deniers won’t admit it.
The problem with most evolution theories based on randomness is that they largely depend on mutation. The same people who insist that science should be based on objective observation fail to admit that the overwhelming majority of mutations make a creature less adaptable. I can see certain instances where, perhaps, a genetic predisposition to certain coloration or patterns may make an animal a better hunter or a more difficult prey, but most random mutations adversely impact the health of the organism.
Exactly. Put another way, when asked what is the mechanism for evolution, the reply is:
"The Survival of the Fittest"
Question: define "fittest" (this is a problem for evolutionists, because there is absolutely no way to determine the 'fittest' of a species beforehand: this only becomes clear after observing which members of the species manage to survive over time)
Hence the answer: "those who survive"
Thus, evolutionists are stating a meaningless tautology by actually saying that a central mechanism of evolution is "The survival of those who survive."
“Evolution does not explain Creation.” - Charles Darwin”
Was it supposed to?
“overwhelming majority”
Well, those words are key, aren’t they? all it takes is a “small minority” for evolution to work.
Just a heads up... The Hebrew word for “day” in Genesis is the same word for amount of time or space of time....
Evolution according to who’s theory? There are a lot of them out there.
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