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(which are not separate things at all, I mean you can be religious and be a scientist.) Anyways, while I watched all the religious people and the atheists duel over subjects stemming from the age of the earth, I realized that this debate was going to change nothing. All debating ever does is entrench you in your original opinion. There was not a single person that I read had changed their theory about evolution/creationism and I seriously doubt it even slightly moved anyone to think differently. You know when you got into a fight with your brother or sister as a kid and when your mom got mad you kept trying to explain why the other person was to blame, while they were trying to explain why you were to blame? Well debates are like the sassy, moderated adult version of that. Except instead of arguing over who really broke the downstairs window, you’re arguing over politics, science or religion. In the end, no one wins and you have to either learn how to get along together, or disagree with each other for the rest of your lives.
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the same way as you, you’re doing think that they belong in the same something wrong. discussion because they are opposing ideas. That’s the difficult -Why did Nye spend most of his thing about Christianity, we befirst five minutes talking about lieve without seeing. We don’t how his dad first got his bowtie have the facts, but we have the tied? Cool story, but why is evolu- faith and slowly, over time our tion a valid theory again? faith becomes a fact. It’s the most difficult and the most mind-bend-The constant ‘you weren’t there’ ing thing about our religion. It’s reminders from Ham. You weren’t not logical at all, but it’s the truth. I there either, so shh. think that this debate should’ve been focused on either fact or -The annoying ‘if you don’t believe faith; the two shouldn’t have been in evolution our countr y is mixed. Fact generally makes faith doomed’ spiel from Nye. look ineffectual and weak when in reality they are just ideas that -No one needed to bring up any of don’t mingle together well. Like the following subjects: why fish apples and yogurt. My overall opinprocreate, gay marriage, abortion, ion is that this was a fun debate to Darwin’s racism, or MRI scanning. watch and that both men are incredibly smart and great at putting 4. Everything Right With The De- together slideshows. And that’s all bate I’m going to say on the matter before I say way too much. Okay, -Nye is a Seahawks fan. done. -Several great points were laid out by both parties, of course neither were enough to change anyone’s mind, but it’s great to be reminded of what we believe in and why.
3. Everything Wrong With That Debate -I really appreciate the fact that Nye was okay with coming to the Since there is so much I want to Creation Science Museum to do a cover about this, I can’t just make debate about evolution where 95% a new point and talk about every- of the 900 people in the crowd thing I want to individually and in were Creationists. Kind of like a detail because it would be about 5 suicide mission that you survive, pages long. Actually, I just typed it but it had to be the most terrifying all out and it was 5 pages. So here thing ever. are little bullet points instead: 5. Last Thing I Want to Say -The sass – hilarious, but kind of like elementary school girls argu- Faith and fact are very different ing over who likes a boy more things. Faith is believing something that you can’t see but know -The name-dropping from Ham. If is true, and fact is seeing someit’s really necessary to validate thing, knowing it is true and then your theories by the acknowledg- believing in it. They’re things that ment that another person believes every human practices, but I don’t
-Grace You can find me on the internets if you want me to talk about something in particular, otherwise you can continue to read my ill-shaped and very biased opinions on things that never have and probably never will matter to you. Either or. Cheerio and have a good day! :)