By Gene Ogorodov
Early in February the Creation Museum hosted a debate between Bill Nye and Ken Ham. Both of these people are notorious for their outspoken support for their own world view. Ken Ham has been the world's leading proponent of Intelligent Design for several decades, and in 2013 Nye sparked a firestorm among Christians in the US when he (rightly) compared Creationism to Astrology. Although falling far short of the sensationalism of either the Scope's Trial, or even Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover, once again America has demonstrated the indefatigably of bad ideas, with overwhelming popular appeal. Spontaneous creation of earth and all its "kinds" six to ten thousand years ago should have died in the mid 1850's, but alas one and half centuries later the proliferation of this stupidity, like our universe, is expanding ever faster.
Early in February the Creation Museum hosted a debate between Bill Nye and Ken Ham. Both of these people are notorious for their outspoken support for their own world view. Ken Ham has been the world's leading proponent of Intelligent Design for several decades, and in 2013 Nye sparked a firestorm among Christians in the US when he (rightly) compared Creationism to Astrology. Although falling far short of the sensationalism of either the Scope's Trial, or even Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover, once again America has demonstrated the indefatigably of bad ideas, with overwhelming popular appeal. Spontaneous creation of earth and all its "kinds" six to ten thousand years ago should have died in the mid 1850's, but alas one and half centuries later the proliferation of this stupidity, like our universe, is expanding ever faster.
