Debate and Switch

The other day, Bill Nye the Science Guy did a public, YouTubed debate on the subject of Creationism Vs. Science with a gentleman named Ken Ham. You can pretty much guess which side The Science Guy was on…and by the way, I met Mr. Nye a few years ago at a Book Fair and I can report he's the same Science Guy off-stage that he is on-stage. Mr. Ham's position is that it's all in The Bible and that's that.

You can also probably by now guess which side I'm on, too. Fan that I am of The Flintstones, I still can't buy that caveman coexisted with brontosaurus and that the Earth is 6,000 years old. That would mean that Joan Rivers has been around for almost half its existence.

I tried to watch the debate. I didn't expect to get through all two-and-a-half hours of it but I thought I'd get farther than I did. If you're made of sterner stuff than I am — and for your sake, I hope you are — here's a link to watch.

I've read that in the last section, when the two men were responding to questions from the audience, one was "What would change your mind?" Mr. Ham answered, "Nothing." Mr. Nye said, "Evidence." That's pretty much the whole discussion right there.