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RE: BILL NYE VS KEN HAM: TONIGHT AT 7 PM
February 4, 2014 at 10:02 pm
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Ham is completely breaking down during the answer questions phase. All he has said from the beginning is that everything is because the bible says so. Not even a pseudoscientific fact/argument. At least try, it's more entertaining that way.
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RE: BILL NYE VS KEN HAM: TONIGHT AT 7 PM
February 4, 2014 at 10:11 pm
Ham choked on the question of what would it take to convince him he was wrong, from an audience member. And with that, the seed of doubt is sown.
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RE: BILL NYE VS KEN HAM: TONIGHT AT 7 PM
February 4, 2014 at 10:12 pm
I just had an idea about what would go a long way in burying this creationist bullshit. I would watch a debate between Ham and let's say William Lane Craig or a scientist from the Vatican regarding creationsim.
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RE: BILL NYE VS KEN HAM: TONIGHT AT 7 PM
February 4, 2014 at 10:20 pm
When Ham said that there are parts of the bible that are meant to be literal and other bits that are just poetry, I wanted Nye to ask him how he could tell which bits are meant to be which. He did tease him for a while but then let him off the hook.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: BILL NYE VS KEN HAM: TONIGHT AT 7 PM
February 4, 2014 at 10:26 pm
Basically Ham thinks that the earth works in his own way because he says so, the bible means what he means because he says so.
Seriously? People gave this dude money to build a creationist museum?
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RE: BILL NYE VS KEN HAM: TONIGHT AT 7 PM
February 4, 2014 at 10:29 pm
(February 4, 2014 at 10:25 pm)Cato Wrote: I found it striking that Ham essentially claimed that we can disregard Israelite law, a purely human activity despite the claim that some of it came from God, but that the ideas of creation of these same people is somehow unassailable.
I liked how Ham claimed that the Bible condemns polygamy and that the early Israelites were sinning in embracing it.
So why does the Bible contain rules for polygamy? Divine regulation would imply tacit approval of the practice.
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