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[HairOfTheDog]

I used to love watching Bill Nye......The Science Guy when I was young.

He recently pissed of the Creationists and the Evolutionists a bit (the Evolutionists because they feel he's wasting his time trying to explain science to the religious right).

Snip:
The biggest danger creationism plays, according to Bill Nye the "Science Guy," is that it is raising a generation of children who "can't think" and who "will not be able to participate in the future in same way" as those who are taught evolution.

Nye said he blames an older generation of evangelicals "who have very strong conservative views" and who are "reluctant to let kids learn about evolution." Their presence on school boards leads to debates over curriculum, Nye argued, which further inhibits schools' ability to teach facts.

"Religion is one thing. People get tremendous comfort and community with their religions," Nye said. "But whatever you believe, whatever deity or higher power you might believe in, the Earth is not 6,000 years old."

"They will not have this fundamental idea that you can question things, that you can think critically, that you can use skeptical thought to learn about nature. These children have to suppress everything that they can see in nature to try to get a world view that's compatible with the adults in who they trust and rely on for sustenance."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/13...17148.html
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Amen, Mr. Bill.

There is plenty of room for both science and religion in this world, IMO. But, I agree that teaching creationism in schools to explain how the the earth and man/woman came to be is counter-productive to meaningful education (because there is no scientific basis for it).