Bill Nye 'The Science Guy' Hits Evolution Deniers
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/bill-nye-science-guy-hits-evolution-deniers-123047918--abc-news-tech.html
In a clip posted to online knowledge forum Big Think via YouTube, former children's show host Bill Nye spoke out against the denial of evolution, saying such views harm young people especially and hamper scientific progress.
Response from tallest4eva 2012/08/28:
The only thing worse than ignorance, is intentional ignorance!!!!
How weak are people's faiths that evolution causes them to lose their faith!!!
If you believe your god can do anything, then why don't you just believe that god(s) did it, when you come across a scientific theory with insurmountable evidence!
People who deny the clear evidence of evolution are similar to clerics in the past who jailed Galileo for postulating the laws of motion and theorizing that the Earth was moving around the sun and not the other way around. A question to ask them would have been "How does the Earth traveling around the sun actually disprove the existence of a god(s)?"
Here's the real baseline. This is what we know.
Many things written in the many religious texts are not factual but mythological:
The Earth was not created 6,000 years ago in 6 days.
Olódùmarè didn't not mold the continents from a handful of earth.
The Kamiyonanayo did not emerge from a beaten and shapeless kind of matter to form the heaven and the earth.
Zeus and his pantheon did not wrest the world from the tyrannical rule of his titanic parents.
The list goes on. For the most part, even though people of faith claim they believe this, they are only really deceiving themselves. When push comes to shove, most rational people don't!
The universe is unimaginably vast and humanity has only really been exploring it for a several thousand years (a blip of time in astronomical time). The universe is governed by laws of nature: gravity, the theories of general relativity and quantum mechanics. We are a species of primate that ascended into sentience in the very thin biospshere around a relatively tiny planet revolving around a mid-size star at the end of one of the spiral arms of a mid-size galaxy. If there is a god(s) (or Star Maker as Olaf Stapledon put it), his manifestation is basically in the form of these laws of nature which govern the universe. There are no localized aberrations to these laws of nature that affect humanity in anyway! We are born, live and die with every atom, quark, molecule in our bodies conforming to these laws of nature.
Science is just man's cumulative attempt to understand and document these laws of nature.
