After watching Bill Nye’s response argument yesterday in class, I have to say that he won the debate. I think that a big reason why is because he used cold hard statistics to prove his point; I specifically remember his number crunching in proving that if the Earth was really created 6000 years ago, and there were so-and-so number of animals, then we would realistically be discovering 11 species every day. At the same time, though, I am starting to tie NFTU in with this debate; what if we’re so set in our ideas, and we’ve built a solid wall of logic, to the point that we ridicule Ham’s idea as infinitely impossible? I keep thinking how people were convinced the Earth was flat a few centuries prior. I do think science has completely proven Earth is round, and pretty much everything has been explained, yet there is still so much that has yet to even be discovered. While I do think Nye has won the debate as the scientific support cannot be denied, it has made me think about how Creationism used to be the presiding thought before the scientific/technological era –what will be the new thought in the upcoming years?
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