Anyone planning on watching this?

[Crackpot]

Bill Nye/Ken Hamm debate

I am sad to say I hope Nye mops the floor with Hamm. Creation Science is a bane on Christianity.

[Gob]

Ham on Nye, any mustard?

[Lord Jim]

[MajGenl.Meade]

I will try to catch it. While I believe there is a case to be made for special creation, I don't think that "The Creation Museum" sort of approach (Genesis or bust!) is correct. If this chap Hamm (or either of his two brothers, Shemm and Momm) show up with "the earth is only 8,000 years old" and "all of creation took 6 days" then that is indeed a bane on anything, perhaps especially Christianity. The existence of God (hence creation) cannot be exhaustively proved or disproved by any argumentation or physical "proofs". Within those parameters, it is (and can only be) a discussion of probabilities.

[Crackpot]

Yes they are 6 day creationists

[Crackpot]

Literal 6 day creation doesn't even make sense from a biblical standpoint since the sun isn't created until the third or fourth day

[Lord Jim]

The fourth day, I was just about to make that point...(which to me has always conveyed the point that The Bible itself tells you, within the first few passages, that it cannot be interpreted in a strictly literal way...)

"Let there be light" has always sounded an awful lot like The Big Bang to me...

[Gob]

That's jumped the shark these days.

[Lord Jim]

I know I've pointed this out before, but The Big Bang Theory was initially posited by a Jesuit Priest:

Monseigneur Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître, ( 17 July 1894 – 20 June 1966) was a Belgian priest, astronomer and professor of physics at the Université catholique de Louvain.[1] He was the first person to propose the theory of the expansion of the Universe, widely misattributed to Edwin Hubble.[2][3] He was also the first to derive what is now known as Hubble's law and made the first estimation of what is now called the Hubble constant, which he published in 1927, two years before Hubble's article.[4][5][6][7] Lemaître also proposed what became known as the Big Bang theory of the origin of the Universe, which he called his 'hypothesis of the primeval atom'.[8]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre