Bill Nye on Creationism

Bill Nye is best known for the TV show he had during the 90s. Countless numbers of kids would tune in to learn how to do simple experiments in their home without having the need to for a full on lab. Following in the tradition of Carl Sagan with his show cosmos Nye aimed to bring science to the masses and try and get people more interested in it again. Once his kids science show ended Nye was on the quit side for a few years and has come back out into the light to battle against what he sees as a dangerous mentality that is being forced into public schools.

Creationism is the literal belief that the events in the bible in regards to the start of life are true. The earth is roughly only 10,000 years old and dinosaurs co-existed with man. Besides the more obvious reasons that this makes little to know sense this whole "theory" can be viewed as really nothing more than cheap marketing tricks (or at least we are making that claim here). Ken Ham who Bill Nye had to debate on one occasion, is a prime example of everything that is wrong with this religious movement. Ham and his followers want to see this model being taught in the science classroom along side evolution. Despite that fact that enough evidence has been presented to prove evolution is real and the fact that all of the life sciences are based off of this simple concept, it hasn't stopped the trend of people rejecting it on the grounds that it goes against their faith. 

The creationism movement has also become a new field in the battle ground for a separation of church and state. As more radical elements of the religious right in this country have gained momentum we are seeing school distracts where text books much teach Christian belief in the science classroom and has even seen teachers getting fired for refusing to teach the model based on the Christian origin story. For Nye this not only means that less kids will become interested in science but the economy of the United States could be in jeopardy since we will have less of the innovators we need to create new jobs and keep the US a couple of steps a head of other nations in the world.