{"id":20658,"date":"2014-01-14T11:10:47","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T16:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=20658"},"modified":"2014-01-14T11:10:47","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T16:10:47","slug":"patheos-posts-on-the-real-nye-ham-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/01\/patheos-posts-on-the-real-nye-ham-debate.html","title":{"rendered":"Patheos Posts on the Real Nye-Ham Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Today I made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/01\/the-doctor-to-debate-ken-ham.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">a spoof post<\/a> about the upcoming debate between Ken Ham and Bill Nye, but there have been a lot of more serious treatments of the subject, including a number here on Patheos blogs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christandpopculture\/2014\/01\/bill-nye-vs-ken-ham-continuing-the-american-tradition-of-spectacle-and-culture-war\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Evangelicals are not necessarily more likely to side with Ken Ham<\/a> than other Christians. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geekgoesrogue\/2014\/01\/ggr-exclusive-coverage-of-hamnye-debate-starts-here-with-capital-letters\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Geek Goes Rogue<\/a> will be trying to live blog and tweet the debate, and offers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geekgoesrogue\/2014\/01\/hamnye-pre-debate-interview-dr-ken-miller\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">a pre-debate interview with Ken Miller<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/formerlyfundie\/creationist-ken-ham-vs-bill-nye-the-science-guy-why-im-forced-to-root-against-creationism\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Benjamin Corey explains why he will be rooting against creationism<\/a>, and also kindly links to a Facebook page I made.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, <a href=\"http:\/\/scotteriology.wordpress.com\/2014\/01\/14\/ham-vs-nye-a-lesson-from-history\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Scott Bailey shared<\/a> a video that puts the upcoming debate in historical perspective:<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gXJwyiez5bw\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gXJwyiez5bw<\/a>\n<p>Meanwhile, the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/fossil-reveals-transitional-link-from-fins-to-feet\/2014\/01\/13\/b02100c6-7a3a-11e3-8963-b4b654bcc9b2_story.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Tiktaalik roseae<\/a> fossil has continued to <a href=\"http:\/\/phenomena.nationalgeographic.com\/2014\/01\/13\/how-we-got-on-land-bone-by-bone\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">provide evidence about the details<\/a> of the transition from amphibians to land animals with feet.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I made a spoof post about the upcoming debate between Ken Ham and Bill Nye, but there have been a lot of more serious treatments of the subject, including a number here on Patheos blogs. Evangelicals are not necessarily more likely to side with Ken Ham than other Christians. 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