Posted on 09/29/2015 7:06:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Bill Nye is supposed to be “the science guy.” Recently he published a video on YouTube purporting to inform viewers of what science tells us about abortion. Nye claims that laws against abortion reflect “a deep scientific lack of understanding.” But it turns out that it is Nye himself who doesn’t understand the science. “I really encourage you to look at the facts,” he says. But then he misrepresents the facts from top to bottom in an embarrassingly transparent effort to hijack science in the cause of pro-abortion ideology.
Nye’s video is so breathtakingly arrogant and incompetently argued that it is hard to know where to begin. He opens by saying: “Many, many, many, many more hundreds of eggs are fertilized than become humans. Eggs get fertilized, and by that I mean sperm get accepted by ova — a lot.” The fact he is pointing to here — the high rate of pre-implantation spontaneous abortions (estimates range from 45 percent to as high as 70 percent) — is the only bit of science Nye ever mentions in the video. But he thinks one can infer from it that a human being does not come to be until the embryo implants on the uterine wall: “[The sperm’s joining the ovum] is not all you need. You have to attach to the uterine wall, the inside of a womb, a woman’s womb.”
But that is easily exposed as a non sequitur — a logical fallacy, the conclusion does not follow from the premise. The fact that many human embryos die at an early stage of development (pre-implantation) provides no evidence whatsoever for the proposition that they are not embryonic human beings — no more than comparable high rates of infant mortality in most places
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The only science that Bill Nye knows is that water is wet.
Billy the weasel sold out long ago. A shame, really.
Satan really has a lot of people working his evil.
what a tangled web we weave....
The truth is simple..
I’m amazed the science clown even went there. He is the face of false science.
And that's up for grabs.
Painful.
Logic used to be a mandatory high school class.
It disappeared in the sixties to be replaced by claims of allegiance to “critical thinking,” which turned out to mean mindless following.
If you want to send a school committee into convulsions, ask them to introduce classical logic into the curriculum, since they claim to be in favor of “critical thinking.”
An insufferable jackass masquerading as an authority in matters of science. What else must we endure?
That is a question I am too frightened to contemplate...
Clock-Bomb Kid knows more about Science. And all he did was go to Radio Shack.
Mister Wizard this clown is not.
There is no bigger bore in the world than someone who professes to see everything from a scientific point-of-view.
Depends on what the EPA defines it to be!
...and a Mechanical Engineer who designed hydraulic systems for 747’s is qualified to lecture us on this HOW exactly?
He learned his science in the same University that awards degrees in Anthropogenic Climate Change Studies.
Bill Nye the Backwoods Biology Guy.
Millions of young minds grew up watching his show...
Bill Nye was the guy who could explain science in terms a kid could understand...
The same young adults just take his word as fact today...
How can anyone expect children groomed by leftist indoctrination all their life are able to think critically and logically...?
Sadly Bill Nye was never anything more than a lightweight political hack with nothing more than an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering. He is a disgrace to his bow-tie.
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