Apologies & Apologetics

My dear, dear reader

I just realized that I didn't post anything about the Bill Nye v. Ken Ham debate! I am terribly sorry... I've been so busy recently (what with school and theology conferences and all.) I know that this will be too small to suffice, but I hope to satisfy some of your longings for this post on apologetics.

So now, without further adieu, I give you...
MY OPINIONS ON THE DEBATE!

Yes, yes, thank you all very much for coming to my page. I'd just like to give you some thoughts concerning that debate that happened awhile back.

First of all, I'd love to congratulate Ken Ham on the precise way in which he contrasted two modern worldviews which are completely different. I'd also like to applaud him for showing that modern methods of dating were based on largely false premises, and that the dating methods are often contradictory.

Nevertheless, I cringe when I think of what secularists would think of his evidence. Obviously, Nye pointed out that Ham seemed to have a lack of scientific foundations for his opinions. He probably speaks for a majority of viewers, too. In fact, I found myself wondering why Ham wasn't bringing up thousands of pieces of evidence that scientists at Answers in Genesis had found. Surely, I thought, Ham could crush Nye's feeble arguments for evolutionary thinking.

But he didn't-- or at least, not in the way I expected he would.

Sometimes he would directly oppose Nye's arguments-- for instance, he showed clearly that the ice tubes could have formed with extreme rapidity, instead of forming over a period of millions of years.
But other times, he totally seemed to ignore Nye's questions.

Was it a lack of evidence that caused Ham's silence?

I don't think so. I think it was harder for Ham to communicate everything within so small a space of time. Whereas Nye didn't feel the need to prove anything for evolutionary thinking, Ham had to somehow both destroy the foundations for evolution and at the same time defend his view of science using the Bible as a reference.

Now on to something else- what were Nye's weak points?

I'll finish this post some other time. Hope you enjoyed this so far... follow my blog!!

Sinceriously,
Micah Isaiah Sample