On Tuesday night there was a live debate between Bill Nye the “Science Guy” and Ken Ham from Answers In Genesis, dealing with the question, “Is creation a viable model of origins in today’s modern scientific era?”
Bill Nye said the reason he agreed to debate Ken Ham was that he wanted everybody to see that “Ken Ham’s movement” should not get in the schools. He also wanted to see if Ken actually believed in Creation, or if he was just in it for some other reason.
A problem with Bill Nye is that he says he’ll change his mind if he hears even one piece of evidence for creation, but, there is ample evidence for creation, and yet he does not believe in it! His mind is darkened.
I am glad that Ken Ham presented the salvation message. We pray that Mr. Nye will accept the truth of the Bible and its salvation message. One day …“ we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.” Romans 14:10b-12
Bill Nye really did not have any firm answers and had no hope for eternity whereas Ken kept on pointing back to where to find the truth, in God’s Word. Here is the debate:
The whole debate idea got roused up when Bill Nye released this video in 2011 attacking teaching Creationism to children. Creationist organizations responded to Bill Nye’s video, and as a result, Bill Nye agreed to the debate!
The above video clip is a fun way of pointing out some of the flaws in Bill Nye’s video clip.
For more information than was possible to present in the debate forum, please go to the following link for an excellent follow up article about the debate.
By the way, one of Bill Nye’s arguments for a very old earth was the Greenland ice cores. He implied that the layers in the snow ice cores each represented one year. If that reasoning was true, this snow drift on our yard last year was at least 18 years old, complete with a glove at the bottom to give scale and, no, the glove is not fossilized.:) The layers in the snow drift were much clearer in real but had already melted a little bit when the picture was taken. These layers are caused by temperature changes and weathering between snow falls.
An interesting article on this dating method is:
http://creation.com/do-greenland-ice-cores-show-over-one-hundred-thousand-years-of-annual-layers
Another interesting story on this topic is the planes that landed in Greenland during WWII, and were under 250 feet of ice by 1990!
http://creation.com/the-lost-squadron
One more article just for good measure to sum everything up is the Ten Best Evidences for Creation:
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v7/n4/ten-best-evidences
Sounds interesting – will have to check these all out.