Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Now this will be a fun debate. Bill Nye is the rather popular Science guy, comedian, television host, actor, writer, and scientist who began his career as a mechanical engineer at Boeing. He is best known as the host of the Disney/PBS children’s science showBill Nye the Science Guy (1993–98) and for his many subsequent appearances in popular media … Read more
Just how daft can beliefs get, can they become, not just outrageously bizarre, but complete decoupled from reality, and yet still assert a claim of “truth”? Yes, they can and often do. I must confess to an excessive degree of bemusement derived from a scan of Ken Ham’s folly, perhaps better known to some as … Read more
There exists a Creation Museum out in Kentucky run by “Answers in Genesis”. They believe in the literal text of Genesis, young earth, evolution is a myth … etc… the usual Creationist kooky stuff … or so I thought. I’ve always considered them to be nuts, but until now I simply did not appreciate how … Read more