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The Best Quotes of Bill Nye’s Evolution vs. Creationism Debate

By Moze Halperin on Feb 5, 2014 2:15pm

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On the questionability of a land-bridge or oceanic kangaroos: “This giant boat — this very large wooden ship — [allegedly] went aground safely on a mountain in what we now call the Middle East, and so places like Australia now are populated by animals that somehow managed to get from the Middle East all the way to Australia in the last 4,000 years. Now that, to me, is an extraordinary claim. Somewhere between the middle East and Australia, we would expect to find evidence of kangaroos!”

In response to Ham’s assertion that the finding of old rocks atop young trees undermines all scientific dating methods: “If you find 45 million year old rock on top of 45000 year old trees, maybe the rock slid on top. [Makes "duh" gesture] Maybe that’s it. That seems a much more reasonable explanation than ‘it’s impossible.’”

To Ham, in response to the notion that the Bible is a more apt scientific text than, you know, a science book: “I understand that you take the Bible, as written in English, translated many many times over the last three millennia as to be a more accurate, more reasonable assessment of the natural laws we see around us than what I and everybody in here can observe. That, to me, is unsettling.”

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Concluding by appealing to the competitive nature of Americans: “I want to close by reminding everybody what’s at stake here. If we abandon all that we’ve learned… if we abandon the process by which we know it… if we stop looking for the next answer, we in the United States will be out-competed by other countries, other economies. That would be okay, I guess, but I was born here, I’m a patriot, and so we have to embrace science education. We have to keep science education in science.”

.. more with Ham/Nye debate, i guess (weird lead in, ok, yup, moderator's intro at 13:16) video ..
http://flavorwire.com/437149/the-best-quotes-of-bill-nyes-evolution-vs-creationism-debate