
It’s not clear why people who behave this way expect their causes to be taken seriously.
It’s interesting where people end up. Does anyone remember the “Ham on Nye” series? It was at least a respectable examination of evidence.
UD News’ take on Bill Nye is that he was a schoolroom celeb but didn’t really age into a science guru for adults.
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I was never a Bill Nye fan but this video made me laugh. It would be like Mr. Rodgers breaking down and dropping several F-bombs while he ranted about how much he hated kids.
I think the context of the video is important to understand the swearing. It’s from a piece by John Oliver about the Green New Deal, linking it to the recent IPCC and IPBES reports, which are basically saying that we’re fudging up the planet(*). Nye’s swearing is to drive home the point about the seriousness of the problem, in a humorous way.
(*) only they didn’t say “fudging”
Bill Nye is one of those who fail to understand that although evolution, i.e. process of evolution, is a fact, this process is totally powerless in creating higher life forms, as required by the theory of evolution. Higher life forms are characterized by novel proteins, organs, molecular machines, and body plans, that were nonexistent in the lower life forms, such as first self-replicating cells. The theory of evolution holds that the above mentioned process was able to repeatedly produce such novelty in a short period of time. Namely, according to the theory, at the beginning of the Cambrian period, in an interval of 20 million years or less, the process of evolution resulted in the explosion of animal diversity with multiple feats of anatomical and physiological novelty. In an evolutionary blink of an eye, most major animal phyla were fully developed. Recently, the “big bang” of bird evolution has been mapped, revealing that almost all of the modern groups of birds evolved in a small window of less than 10 million years. So evolution must have happened extremely fast and produced novelty in a short period of time. Finally, based on 53-million-year-old fossils of whale-like, semi-aquatic mammals, scientists had thought mammals gave rise to whales in a process that took 15 million years. The new find suggests it took just 4 million years. So again, in an evolutionary blink of an eye the evolution process must have produced a lot of novelty to turn a terrestrial mammal to a fully aquatic marine mammal.
However, the observation clearly shows the complete powerlessness of this process. For e.g. in the last 300,000 years, the variation part of the evolution process produced more than 100 billion different Homo sapiens genomes. But has this enormous diversity caused humans to start to develop some new, distinct organs, molecular machines, or body plans that will occupy ecological niches humans previously could not occupy, i.e. enable the selection part of the evolution process to act on them? Well, obviously not. After an enormous number of different genomes produced, humans are anatomically, morphologically and physiologically practically identical, without any traces of new structures starting to develop. The same is true for the E.coli long-term evolution experiment, which is the longest running microbial evolution experiment. After more than 67,000 generations of E. coli, which is the equivalent to over one million years of human evolution, not a single, new and distinct structure was created. Most of the changes involved streamlining the genome, deleting genes no longer needed, or reducing protein expression, with one change being the breaking of a repressor switch which caused preexisting citrate-uptake pathway to turn on. So, both humans and E.coli have undergone a lot of evolution, but nothing structurally new was created. This clearly shows that the fact of evolution has nothing to do with the validity of the evolution theory. The evolution process is indeed factual the same as other natural processes, be it: fog, thunder, tornadoes, decomposition, wave propagation, erosion, etc. But natural processes, including evolution, are totally powerless in creating new functional things. Many educated people, like Bill Nye, fail to differentiate between evolution process (fact) and evolution theory (human idea about what the evolution process can and cannot do), which is why they hold irrational beliefs about the enormous creation powers of a mere natural process that is in reality totally powerless.
Nye should instead be upset that he is being systematically lied to:
Shoot, atheists can’t even explain why we have a remarkably stable orbit, much less why the climate is remarkably fit for advanced life such as ourselves:
“the seriousness of the problem, in a humorous way”
Yes Bob O’H, what a sad joke this is. You nailed it.
Andrew
Who knew that all a Bond villain had to to to control the worlds weather was to drive a diesel car and light coal fire .The fact is ask any climate scientist to guarantee that there will not be another ice age anytime soon they cannot ,so maybe us heating up a planet a little might just help us survive that impending doom , ha ha.
Climate change is real its causes are so multi faceted to think we can prevent it is just a joke and to think that scientist know exactly what the future holds in relation to future change is another big joke , this is not science its money and attention grabbing hysteria.
“this is not science its money and attention grabbing hysteria”
And of course Bob O’H is defending it, predictably, on cue, and without shame. lol
Andrew
Bill Nye…. the goofy guy…. nothing more funny and scary than Bill Nye. This Halloween I think i’ll work up a short YouTube clip of the three scariest clowns out there being frightened by each other…yes that is right, Pennywise the clown getting terrified by the other two, Gore and Nye and their antics.