Fringe Factor: Bill Nye The Science Guy Does Not Understand Science

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/22/fringe-factor-bill-nye-the-science-guy-does-not-understand-science.html

Fringe Factor: Bill Nye The Science Guy Does Not Understand Science
by Caitlin Dickson Sep 22, 2013 4:45 AM EDT
Creationists know more about science than Bill Nye, Hillary Clinton could be our first lesbian president and other assertions from the political fringe. By Caitlin Dickson


Oh, silly Bill Nye. There you go again, you former Boeing engineer, calling your self the “Science Guy,” teaching kids about chemistry and laughing about creationists with Bill Maher. Good thing pastor Ken Ham is here to set you straight. The creationist pastor took to Facebook to slam Nye’s appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher, in which Maher and Nye discuss the politicization of science. Ham charged that “Bill Nye doesn’t understand the difference between historical science and observational science, so he may be known as ‘Bill Nye The Science Guy’ but he doesn’t understand science correctly.” What’s that? You, too, aren’t sure that you understand the difference between “historical” and “observational science?” According to Ham and other so-called “historical science” creationists, the only science that is valid is that which you’ve observed personally. Ham’s organization, “Answers in Genesis,” promotes the idea that God created the universe in seven days. “What a load of nonsense,” Ham wrote of Nye and Maher’s conversation. “These two mock the Bible and totally distort the Bible’s account of the creation of the sun and the moon.”

[Scootaloo]

1. Oh, Ken Ham, you glorious wacky bastard n/t

[Lizzie Poppet]

2. Ham doesn't know fuck-all about how science works.

Not, mind you, that scientists are always all that well versed in philosophy of science. But Ham is spectacularly clueless thereof...

[Thor_MN]

3. Ham observed the creation of the earth?

Hey, if you have to personally observe it for it be valid, the bible is full of shit in Genesis...

[Brickbat]

4. Our local fundie station plays an "Answers In Genesis" mini-clip and sometimes when I'm out and

about in the car I catch it to see what crazy crap they're spouting this week. It's amazing what a charlatan he is. When I listen to him, the response is pretty much "Yes, yes, OK, that's right...OH MY GOD WHAT KIND OF RANK BULLSHIT DID YOU JUST SAY?"

[malaise]

5. Ignorance appears to be beyond bliss

The stupid burns. I'd find his school records and publish them.

[bhikkhu]

6. Observational Science:

whatever you didn't personally witness is "unproven" to you, so you are free to believe whatever wacked-out ideas you come across and call them equivalent to anything science has to say.

[longship]

7. More Bible Babble from the galacticly ignorant Ken Ham.

Hope he rides his vegetarian dinosaur into the sunset soon. I hear there is a rubber room available.

[xfundy]

8. He's out of jail already?

Or was that another idiot fundy?

[Archae]

14. You're thinking of Kent Hovind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Hovind

[SidDithers]

9. If Ken Ham were a character, like Betty Bowers, it would be fucking brilliant...

The fact that he's a real person takes it to a whole 'nother level



Sid

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

12. I found that book in the seatback of a Delta 757

I like the Eskimo riding a velociraptor better.

[SidDithers]

13. Vegetarian T.Rex is pretty good too...

Sid

[miyazaki]

10. What a Ham Hole. n/t

[HappyMe]

16. .....

Good one!

[Archae]

11. Ham whines that the Bible is being "mocked..."

When it comes to actual science, the Bible is VERY mock-able.

Don't forget, these people had no real idea what causes lightning, storms, volcanoes and earthquakes, so they said they were "From God/the Gods."

[Scurrilous]

15. What an idiot. n/t