Bill Nye Tours the Ark Encounter with Ken Ham

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Channel: Answers in Genesis

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Id: PPLRhVdNp5M

Length: 117min 4sec (7024 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 13 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/speakeasy518]

I've lost some faith in humanity listening to Ken Ham speak.

[u/TherionSaysWhat]

Have to applaud Bill Nye for trying but... honestly cannot listen to Ham speak for more than 30 sec without feeling existentially threatened by him and his ilk. It's like they want to pull the whole of humanity backward because they are afraid of empirical truth not supporting a world view in which they are the keepers of all knowledge, the chosen few and special.

[u/LovesPenguins]

At the Ark Encounter “museum” they literally have a cage on this “ark” with baby dinosaurs as if they were on the ark with Noah and his family. To teach this to children that humans once lived among dinosaurs let alone coexist on a boat during a worldwide flood event is just irresponsible. Children deserve a real education. 🦖

[u/overpalm]

I have to be honest. I lean strongly toward the Bill Nye thinking both scientifically (obvious to me) and just logical but I don't think he came across very strong here.

Personally, I would find it exhausting to try to defend what I see as common sense but I don't think the science guy did a great job at all here.

Am I alone in that?

[u/Stardust716]

Here are my thoughts, take it for what it's worth:

1. I like Bill Nye but I think he could have done better at the beginning when Ham kept insisting that he starts from his own beliefs. The real case to be made here is that Nye, Ham, and everyone starts from the same point (sensory experience, logic, calculation), but Ham goes off the rails by totally misusing and misapplying basic tools of inquiry. That's where we lose a lot of people. No human is special. We all live in the same world and are given by nature the same tools. I can give you a hammer but if you attempt to saw wood with it, it's not going to work.
2. Ham is a full blow whackaloon. I thought this guy was just in it for the money, and I'm sure that's part of it, but after watching this I am of the impression that this guy really believes what he says and has an underlying psychological problem. Look at his body language. Listen to the inflection on his voice. He's not set up for rational inquiry.
3. Nye recognizes (2), and he probably didn't realize any of that beforehand. Nye looks visibly shaken by how off the rails this has gone. That's why his initial responses to Ham's challenges aren't particularly well thought out or articulate. Nye is shocked.

This was a very informative, if disturbing, video. Thank you for sharing.

[u/JackFisherBooks]

I have a lot of respect for Bill Nye. Now, I respect his capacity for patience and restraint even more.

[u/Sir_Mild_Peril]

I can't believe I have to share a planet with people of such stunning ignorance. I despise religion.

[u/choosetango]

Can we please stop linking videos of AiG please? I really don't want to watch something that is going to give them money for my watching it.

[u/endkkkterror]

Christian idiots like Ken Ham deny Global Warming because they believe the Earth is 6000 years old and any evidence for Global warming is thus invalid.