In case you missed it, here are the opinions of the Evolutionary Theory vs. Creation Theory. Bill Nye and Ken Ham debated the two dominant theories of origin. The live stream of the debate was a whopping two hours and thirty minutes.
Bill Nye is a popular TV scientist and an advocate of science in education. Ken Ham is the founder of Answers in Genesis and the owner of the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky. Ken Ham noticed a lack of debates since 1980 on this topic, so he decided to create one.
Now that the basics are out of the way, lets get to my opinions. The debate, which I watched most of, was comparable to the Broncos and the Sea Hawks. It is no wonder why they stopped doing these in the 80s. The creationists are forced to use their imagination and a book, where as the evolutionist has the ability to use a database of facts and research. Even so, it goes to a problem I feel that all debates of religious theory vs. scientific theory have and will run into. Logic.
Conventional logic is simple. If you can prove it, it is proven. But religious logic runs inversely. If you can't prove it, there can't be a final decision. Somehow, it is better explained by this image here. Even so, I feel that Ken Ham was not the right person to debate creation v. evolution. He is a fundamentalist who believes in Fundamental Christianity. Maybe not even Bill Nye was right to debate evolutionary theory either since he is not an evolutionary scientist (on the other hand, he is a great public speaker).
Please keep all comments as far away from inflammatory as possible as this can always be a touchy subject.
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