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• “Outside Scientists”• Scientists who believe in the Biblical account of creation are considered
intellectually separate or distinct from scientists who do not.• “Traditional Scientists”
• This is another discriminatory statement that seeks to minimize the work of scientists that believe in the Bible
• “I’m a reasonable man…”• Implies that those who believe in the Bible are unreasonable
• “Keeping America competitive…”• Suggests that people who believe in the Creation account are not intelligent
enough to be productive, contributing members of our society and global market.
Bill Nye made frequent statements like…
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• Excessive Accusations• He used a common debate strategy by making far more claims than Ken Ham had
time to answer. Any issues not answered then appear to be undebatable facts.• Outdated Information
• Many of the issues that Bill Nye presented have long been debunked or were simply deceptive.
• Ignored Answers• Ken Ham did provide intelligent answers to a number of the claims made by Bill
Nye. However, Nye simply wasn’t listening and frequently claimed Ken had not yet answered his questions.
Bill Nye made a lot of tired arguments…
ICE CORE SAMPLESClimatologists and Paleogeologists drill deep down into the ancient ice of Greenland and
Antartica to study various conditions of the earth and its past environments. It’s worth noting that there is some interesting information that can be gleaned from these samples, but secular scientists engage in a great deal of assumption and speculation from the ice
core samples.
The traditional thinking is that the topmost layers of these ice cores are
indicators of annual or seasonal snow accumulation & compression. As such, they can be counted much
like tree rings to determine a relative age of the ice layers.
WINTERSUMMER
WINTER
SUMMER
WINTERSUMMER
Bill Nye used this thinking and some deceptive math to suggest that if the earth were only 6,000
years old there would have been 144 winters a year, which appears to be definitive evidence again the
Genesis account of Creation.
8 YEARS IT’S CRUCIAL TO
NOT WORRY
WHEN EVIDENCE
SEEMS TO
DISPROVE THE
BIBLE. GOD’S
TRUTH IS
ABSOLUTE AND
OUR FAITH IS IN
HIS WORD AND IN
THE WORK OF
JESUS, NOT IN THE
FALABLE WISDOM
AND SCIENCE OF
MEN.
NOW FAITH IS THE
SUBSTANCE OF THINGS HOPED FOR, THE EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT SEEN.
HEBREWS 11:1-2
SO THEN FAITH
COMETH BY
HEARING AND
HEARING BY
THE WORD OF
GOD
ROMANS
10:17
However, there are scientists, both Secular and Christian, that believe these layers do not depict annual
seasons but simply fluctuations caused by storms or common
changes in temperature.COLD
WARM
COLD
WARM
COLD
WARM
During warmer periods or the snow would begin to soften and melt.
When new snow accumulated on top of this it would refreeze and
compress differently and form discernible layers. Strong winter
storms can also cause unpredictable or erratic layers.
1 WINTER
In 1942, six P-38 and two B-17 US fighter planes crash-landed in Greenland. These planes lay undisturbed for decades until they were recovered in 1992 under an astonishing 268 feet (80 m) of snow! One of the witnesses counted hundreds and hundreds of snow layers in the 268 foot. shaft from the surface to the planes below.
THE LOST SQUADRON
To put this in perspective, 268 feet is slightly taller than a 19 story building! If we have undeniable evidence of that kind of accumulation in that short period of time, than 6,000 years is more than enough to account for 11,000 feet depth of the entire glacier system. It also proves definitively that the layers observed in the ice cores samples are not annual rings.
FOSSILS DON’T TELL US MUCH, EXCEPT THAT SOMETHING DIED.
FOSSILS ARE
PRIMARILY
ARRANGED IN
EVOLUTIONARY
“ORDER”
BASED ON
THEIR
APPEARANCE
AND THE ROCK
LAYERS IN
WHICH THEY
WERE FOUND
REMEMBER THIS IS
CIRCULAR REASONING TO DATE FOSSILS BY ROCK LAYERS,
BECAUSE THE ROCK LAYERS ARE DATED BY THE FOSSILS FOUND WITHIN THEM.
PURELY
SPECULATION
SPECULATION IS
A POLITE WAY
OF SAYING THE
SCIENTISTS ARE
SIMPLY MAKING
GUESSES
BASED ON
THEIR
PRECONCEIVED
BELIEFS.
(THAT’S NOT
VERY
SCIENTIFIC!)
LOTS OF SKULLS
That would be like trying to sequentially arrange all of the “Magic Tree House” books using only the information found in the cover artwork of each book and the library in which they
are cataloged.
Topeka Public Library
Wanamaker Elementary
Library
WRMS LibraryFarley
Elementary Library
DOES THIS SEEM
“REASONABLE”, BILL?TO GET THE TRUE ORDER OF THE BOOKS WE’D NEED TO REFER TO THE INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR! THE SAME IS TRUE FOR
LIFE!! (SEE HEBREWS 12:2
)
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down
at the right hand of the throne of God. - Hebrews 12:2
NUMBER OF SPECIES
Bill Nye made some audacious claims about how many species would have to appear everyday if the earth were only 6,000 years old.
He used simple math to deduce the number of species, divided by the number of days in 6,000 years. It appeared very straight-forward and definitive. It was, however, deceptive.
Bill cited an extraordinarily large number of species to make his computations. The issue is, that he was trying to disprove the Bible, but he didn’t study what the Bible actually claims.
The number that Bill mentions is the current number of all species thought to exist in the world today. This includes all aquatic life, birds, insects, bacteria, and other microscopic life.
The reason this is deceptive is because none of these life forms were on Noah’s Ark, and so many of them would have continued to exist during and after the flood.
In other words, the Bible never claims that the animal kinds which left the ark are responsible for becoming every single species alive today.
HE’S LITERALLY PROVIDING EVIDENCE TO TRY AND DISPROVE SOMETHING THAT SCRIPTURE
NEVER CLAIMED TO HAPPEN!
Bill Nye also had a lot to say about the feasibility of Noah and his sons being able to build the Ark by themselves. He also had numerous doubts about the eight people aboard the Ark being able to feed and care for all of the animals on board.
His main argument was that he didn’t believe a group of people from ancient times would have the intelligence perform such a enormous endeavor.
Ancient peoples have engineered and built countless incredible structures, many of which we still are uncertain about the specifics of how they were created. It is incredibly arrogant to think people thousands of years ago are somehow of a
primitive intelligence. In fact, it’s entirely possible they were SMARTER than us!
THINGS TO CONSIDER…• Bill Nye repeatedly claimed
to be a “reasonable man” and he couldn’t imagine how the historical account of the Ark could be true. THIS IS NOT EVIDENCE, IT IS ONE MAN’S OPINION!!
• Just because “The Science Guy” can’t think of a way to make something happen, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. In fact, it’s pretty arrogant to try and present that as a reason to disprove something.
• Noah didn’t have to be a professional shipwright to build the Ark. IT WAS DESIGNED BY GOD!
• There are small family farms all around the world in which a hand full of people tend to hundreds and even thousands of animals.
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