Creationism Threatens U.S. Science

Do you want to know how persecution will start to come here?  Let's say you are a science student and you confess that the evidence you see on the intricacies of even the tiniest celled creatures point to intelligent design.  In other words, you recognize there is NO WAY that all this detailed design just came to being out of nothing.

If you said that publicly, you could lose a scholarship, get a bad grade from you professor, be denied entrance into further education or certainly be fired from an institution of higher learning if you were already a professor.

If you haven't seen it already, go and rent the Ben Stein movie called EXPELLED.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The man known to a generation of Americans as "The Science Guy" is condemning efforts by some Christian groups to cast doubts on evolution and lawmakers who want to bring the Bible into science classrooms.

Bill Nye, a mechanical engineer and star of the popular 1990s TV show "Bill Nye The Science Guy," has waded into the evolution debate with an online video that urges parents not to pass their religious-based doubts about evolution on to their children.

Nye has spent a career teaching science to children and teens with good-natured and sometimes silly humor, but has not been known to delve into topics as divisive as evolution.

Christians who view the stories of the Old Testament as historical fact have come to be known as creationists, and many argue that the world was created by God just a few thousand years ago.

"The Earth is not 6,000 or 10,000 years old," Nye said in an interview with The Associated Press, citing scientists' estimates that it is about 4.5 billion years old. "It's not. And if that conflicts with your beliefs, I strongly feel you should question your beliefs."

In the video he tells adults they can dismiss evolution, "but don't make your kids do it. Because we need them." Posted by Big Think, an online knowledge forum, the clip went viral and has 4.6 million views on YouTube. It has garnered 182,000 comments from critics and supporters.

"What I find troubling, when you listen to these people ... once in a while I get the impression that they're not kidding," Nye said.

Ken Ham, a co-founder of Answers in Genesis, said dating methods used by scientists to measure the age of the earth are contradictory and many don't point to millions or billions of years of time.

"We say the only dating method that is absolute is the Word of God," Ham said. "Time is the crucial factor for Bill Nye. Without the time of millions of years, you can't postulate evolution change."

America is home to the world's biggest creationist following, Ham said, and the $27 million Creation Museum has averaged about 330,000 visitors a year since it opened just south of Cincinnati in 2007.

Here; http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/24/bill-nye-creationism-science_n_1908926.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

I certainly haven't seen any half-fish, half squirrel fossils.  If evolution was real, there should be millions of fossils around to show how a fish turned into a mammal and how a squirrel evolved into a tiger.  It's ridiculous. 

If evolution started with one little single cell of life someplace....that should be pretty easy to reproduce in the sophisticated labs that they have today.  Why can't they make life?  Why can't they shock a piece of clay with a lightning bolt and make it breathe?

"They know nothing, they understand nothing; their eyes are plastered over so they cannot see, and their minds closed so they cannot understand."  Isaiah 44:17

As for me, I don't know how old the earth is.  God exists outside of the limits of time.  But I can look at nature and know the God created it all.

"For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.  Romans 1:20