Okay, so as most of you reading this know, a couple days ago Bill Nye the Science Guy debated with Ken Ham about Creationism.
To watch the video, click here.
In light of this debate, 22 pictures of Creationists holding up their messages to Evolutionists went viral. For the original post, click here. After being up for a few days, someone decided to DEFINE these posts. To see that, click here.
Now, I know this has been done before, but I'm coming from a side of strictly logic here, so I'm going to post my responses to these messages. I've numbered the slides, 1-22, but my post will jump around. So you may have to reference back. All of my other references will be hyper-linked, like those above. Any questions? Let me know!
Key to this blog post:
Original Question
Translation from secondary post.
Just information I found, or feel.
My questions to these people.
1. Bill Nye, are you influencing the minds of children in a positive way?
Have you ever seen Bill's website? No? Then I suggest you check it out for yourself! He has two missions: 1. To help foster a scientifically literate society and 2. To make people everywhere understand and appreciate the science that makes our world work.
Now, Sir, regardless of whether you want to believe it or not, the children of the world are going to encounter some sort of science on a day to day basis, so don't you think giving them a general knowledge is a good influence?
"I'm worried that kids who think won't take 'Because I said so' as an answer."
In my opinion, kids need to be able to think! Most parents, and I do want to say most, have dreams of their children going into a career field in which they make a lot of money. Whether those dreams be because they simply want what's best for their child, or because (like my dad says) they want their children to take care of them when they turn old and gray and can't do it anymore, they have these dreams. How do you expect your child to make it though the schooling necessary if they don't know how to think? Regardless of whether or not, their own thinking leads them to beliefs other than your own, this is a valuable skill, and in my opinion, Bill Nye teaches kids how to think on their own.
So, are you positively influencing the minds of children?
2. Are you scared of a divine creator?
How can I be scared of something I don't believe in? Oh, sorry.. answered the question with a question.. simply, NO!
Are you scared of the possibility of there being no divine creator?
14. If evolution is a theory (like creationism or the bible) why then is Evolution taught as fact?
and 15. Because science, by definition is a "theory" -not testable, observable, or repeatable. Why do you object to creationism or intelligent design being taught in school?
Please, just give me a minute to get over the stupidity...
*phew* Okay, so where to begin? The definition of science maybe. Science: the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment
Wait a minute... I thought science wasn't testable, or observable, or repeatable... oops, got my facts mixed up apparently.
Now, let me define creationism: the BELIEF that the universe and living organisms originate from specific acts of divine creation, as in the biblical account, rather than by natural processes
So, Why don't we allow creationism to be taught in schools?
THE FIRST AMENDMENT, specifically, The Establishment Clause.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..."
Now, let's look at the rulings of some cases in which religious practices were brought into school systems.
1: McCollum V. Board of Education Dist. 71
"The Court held that the use of tax-supported property for religious instruction... violated the establishment clause."
2: Edward V. Aguillar
The Court said that mandating the teaching of "creation science" beside the theory of evolution is UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
This law failed the 3 prong Lemon Test.
A: "...not enacted to further a clear secular purpose."
B: "...primary effect of the law was to advance the viewpoint that a "supernatural being created humankind.""
C: "...law significantly entangled the interests of church and state by seeking "the symbolic and financial support of government to achieve a religious purpose.""
Now, for both of them, let me define theory: "an explanation or model based on observation, experimentation, and reasoning, especially one that has been tested and confirmed as a general principle helping to explain and predict natural phenomena."
So for #15: Though we've already seen that science in itself is NOT defined as a theory, we can see here that even if it was, science would still be "testable, observable, and repeatable."
For #14: Do you believe in gravity? Gravity is a theory, yet it is widely accepted as fact, and has been proven as such, therefore; your argument is invalid.
I'm not even going to bother posting what these were said to mean, but I do have a question for these two:
Do you even have any idea what you are talking about?
Okay, so this got really long, really fast, and there are a few of the topics I need to research. Being a college student, I try to make time to post these blogs and keep up with my school work. So, I'm cutting this one off here. Stay tuned for part 2, hope you enjoyed, and please, comment/share/like, whatever!
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