{"id":295,"date":"2014-02-05T09:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T09:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2014\/02\/bill-nye-ken-ham-debate-creationism.html"},"modified":"2014-07-27T09:59:01","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T14:59:01","slug":"bill-nye-ken-ham-debate-creationism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2014\/02\/bill-nye-ken-ham-debate-creationism.html","title":{"rendered":"Bill Nye &#038; Ken Ham Debate Creationism"},"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><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z6kgvhG3AkI\" width=\"460\" height=\"257\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The debate was long, over two hours. And lots of people watched it live. You Tube showed over 500,000 watching at one point. \u00a0CNN moderated the debate and has <a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2014\/02\/04\/creation-debate-recap-science-religion-and-terrible-jokes\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">an excellent summary here<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2014\/02\/05\/what-i-learned-moderating-the-creation-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">and here.<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/funny\/comments\/1x22jw\/one_of_my_favorite_lines_tonight_from_the_bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Reddit also lit up<\/a> during the debate and you might find some of the entries there entertaining. <a href=\"http:\/\/swampland.time.com\/2014\/02\/05\/bill-nye-ken-ham-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Time Magazine offers a minute by minute review<\/a>\u00a0and the page already has over 500 comments. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2014\/02\/04\/271648691\/watch-the-creationism-vs-evolution-debate-bill-nye-and-ken-ham\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">NPR also has a good summary<\/a> of the two as does <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/bill-nye-defends-evolution-in-kentucky-debate\/2014\/02\/04\/7faa3184-8dfd-11e3-99e7-de22c4311986_story.html?hpid=z3\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">the Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Nye and Ham disagree about the story of creation presented in the Bible. Ham trusts the Bible as the \u201cword of God,\u201d while Nye does not. If the creation story is true, then the earth is only 6000 years old. \u00a0 Nye challenged Ham on this fundamental question saying \u201cit means that Mr. Ham\u2019s word is to be more respected than what you can observe in nature, what you can find in your backyard in Kentucky.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The debate was long, over two hours. And lots of people watched it live. You Tube showed over 500,000 watching at one point. \u00a0CNN moderated the debate and has an excellent summary here\u00a0and here.Reddit also lit up during the debate and you might find some of the entries there entertaining. Time Magazine offers a minute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"featured_media":4103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bill Nye &amp; Ken Ham Debate Creationism<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The debate was long, over two hours. And lots of people watched it live. 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