“Science Guy” Bill Nye charges that disbelief in evolution endangers science

Washington Post : As reported by the Associated Press in the Washington Post‘s On Faith department, Bill Nye—the engineer who played television’s informative, funny “Science Guy"—is “condemning efforts by some Christian groups to cast doubts on evolution and lawmakers who want to bring the Bible into science classrooms.” His YouTube video “Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children,” posted in August, had 4 686 987 hits as of early on 27 September. According to a June Gallup poll, “46% of Americans believe God created humans in their present form about 10 000 years ago.” Nye told AP, “If we raise a generation of students who don’t believe in the process of science, who think everything that we’ve come to know about nature and the universe can be dismissed by a few sentences translated into English from some ancient text, you’re not going to continue to innovate.” The creationist group Answers in Genesis posted a video response , also in August, but it has drawn only 107 856 hits. Each year, about 330 000 people visit the group’s $27 million Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky, near the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport.