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A couple days ago, Bill Nye [the Science Guy] debated Ken Ham over evolution versus creationism. Neither of them “won”, no one was keeping score. From where I sat, Ham made a good point when he stressed it is called the “Theory of Evolution” and that we don’t actually know what happened. Nye made a good point when asked what would change his mind and he stated without hesitation “evidence.”
It was moderately entertaining, but the real thing it accomplished was to highlight the difference between what one person “believes” and another person “thinks”. Despite the fact that we really don’t know what happened in hominid development, that we are speculating based on sketchy evidence, dating by methods that we consider accurate, Nye THINKS that the theory of evolution explains the data we have found accurately.
Despite the fact that we really don’t know that our current translation of Genesis is completely accurate, that we are making assumptions when interpreting what some passages mean, Ham BELIEVES that the world was created whole and entire and is pretty young, and sees no reason to assume that the data we have found contradicts this. The real question is what do we teach our kids, neh? Do we teach them what some people THINK or what some people BELIEVE?
I don’t have a problem with teaching evolution is a theory, and that it is a theory because we just don’t know for sure. I don’t have a problem teaching that there are alternative ways to look at the data, and that some people believe differently. I do have a problem teaching either theory or belief as fact. It is my opinion we need to teach the difference between “thinking” and believing” and that they are not mutually exclusive.
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