Bill Nye on creationism:

[eynon81]

[Boris Johnson]

[Darkhorse]

People who think evolution and intelligent design both occurred are the creationists of the future. They've just had one more finger slip off the religious book they are clinging to.

[The Comrade]

[Hyperion]

The debate is not about banning or censoring creationism in school. Certainly such perspectives are inescapable when a majority of the population adheres to one monolithic, Abrahamic faith or another, especially in the social sciences, but the debate surrounds whether or not 1.) creationism should be included in a science curriculum (it shouldn't; no empirical or mathematical evidence) and 2.) whether the theory of evolution (not necessarily Darwin's precise theory) is currently the standard-model of biology (it is).

Creationism, spirits, ghosts, magic, dragons - if you can't debate their virtue on experimentation, it's not science. I'm a science teacher, and although my main discipline is physics, when I'm called on to teach biology I refer to evolution as casually as I would quantum mechanics or statistical thermodynamics.

[Aaron]

Which is why Waldorf Education is one of the most undervalued German contributions to the world in history. They basically teach a religion per grade, instead of none of them, or an anti-preference agenda with christian overtones.

[Stratego]

[Spider]

Evolution never had the first thing to do with creationism at all, to say nothing of "disproving" it.

And Nye didn't say creationism made life more complex. Its the common sense simplicity of evolution (which, now that we can gene sequence everything has proven extraordinarily accurate) that would be missing. The complexity would come from trying to find some sort of science that could fill such a gap. Its would be like trying to explain how the tides rise and fall without a concept of gravitation. Or why the world is round.

Just try it. Explain a universe full of spheres, only you don't know about gravity. That gets complicated.

[Stratego]

[Spider]

God did it just opens up a zillion other questions, though...