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The Great Debate.
#31
RE: The Great Debate.
I would love to see Tyson in this debate, along with Kent Hovind for laughs.
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#32
RE: The Great Debate.
I still think that real scientists shouldn't debate creationists. Give them too much credit.
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#33
RE: The Great Debate.
So, uh, poopypants, what are your thoughts on "race mixing?"?
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#34
RE: The Great Debate.
The trouble is that Nye will probably try to use logic and evidence with these people and it isn't going to work.

If it was me, I'd be attacking the credibility of AIG to start with.

Point out their mission statement, the bit that says that any evidence contrary to the bible is to be ignored.

Then ask the audience to imagine being in a jury where the prosecutor has told them to ignore any evidence that would disagree with a guilty verdict.

And then ask them how much they would trust that prosectutor.
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#35
RE: The Great Debate.
(January 3, 2014 at 3:58 pm)paintpooper Wrote: Nye can't prove anything and neither can the other guy. We will never know the truth about how humans/life came to be.
I wonder how many times throughout history has the phrase "We will never know X" been said, only to have X understood at some point in the future.

(January 3, 2014 at 3:58 pm)paintpooper Wrote: Science....has not been able to show how a whole species comes to be.
Yes, it has.
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#36
RE: The Great Debate.
(January 3, 2014 at 3:58 pm)paintpooper Wrote: While I think this debate is just for show. Nye can't prove anything and neither can the other guy. We will never know the truth about how humans/life came to be.
What does matter is what is happening now and the reality of the world, where we came from is irrelevant to the problems that face the whole world currently.

Science can "prove" natural selection and small changes within a species but it has not been able to show how a whole species comes to be.
Creationism doesn't prove anything it is a faith based line of thinking, with no science attached to it.

So we have 2 guys debating something that neither have concrete proof for or against.

They should debate monetary policy, immigration, race mixing, and other pertinent issue that effect us today.

Dude... do you know anything about the evidence for biological evolution?
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#37
RE: The Great Debate.
Guys don't fall for paintpoopers detractions please, he/she is a troll.
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#38
RE: The Great Debate.
Only downside I can think of for this debate is that it'll be on the Creatard's home turf. I hope Bill Nye can survive the sea of stupid that he will find there.
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#39
RE: The Great Debate.
Nye will need some security, he is a high profile scientist after all, and I'm sure these creationists are a terroristic in action and intent by whole.
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#40
RE: The Great Debate.
(January 3, 2014 at 5:47 pm)paintpooper Wrote:
(January 3, 2014 at 5:30 pm)pineapplebunnybounce Wrote: What truth about him? He's a big deal evolutionary biologist.

Sorry, I'm not interested in teaching you evolution on a forum. Read other books then. And that's obviously not how inheritance work. You pass on your genes whether or not you marry within your family. Obviously.

I have read the Origin of the Species as well.

I understand that you don't have to marry to pass on genes. What I'm saying is the creature with the genetic mutation would be the biological father/mother of all the offspring who would inherit the trait. So if the trait was to propagate it would have to be through incest, as in half brothers and half sisters.

Where did you get this idea? It is not true.

And what 'truth' did you discover about Dawkins? Inquiring minds want to know.
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