{"id":1977,"date":"2014-01-06T19:09:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T23:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2014-06-22T17:08:59","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T21:08:59","slug":"nye-vs-ham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1977","title":{"rendered":"Nye vs. Ham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a good article arguing against scientists debating creationists: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/earth\/should-scientists-debate-creationists-140105.htm\">Should Scientists Debate Creationists<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The perpetually-bowtied science educator Bill Nye \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Science Guy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is slated to debate creationist Ken Ham, the founder of Kentucky\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Creation Museum, on Feb. 4.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;Debate is a sport, not the way we decide scientifically how the world works.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThis is not an issue of censorship. Anyone is free to hold whatever beliefs or opinions they like, no matter how unscientific or false. But there is no obligation to portray both sides as having equally strong or valid scientific arguments, when by any measure they do not.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a good article arguing against scientists debating creationists: Should Scientists Debate Creationists? The perpetually-bowtied science educator Bill Nye \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Science Guy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is slated to debate creationist Ken Ham, the founder of Kentucky\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Creation Museum, on Feb. 4. &#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1977\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-vT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2013,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2013","url_meta":{"origin":1977,"position":0},"title":"Cooked Ham","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"February 6, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The debate event between Bill Nye and Ken Ham attracted the notice of the Tampa Bay Times: Nye, Ham unearth age-old debate: Evolution vs. Creationism. Our very own Florida Citizens for Science vice president Jonathan Smith was asked for his reaction before and after the debate. Before: \"All this achieves\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 8 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 8 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2013#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2457,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2457","url_meta":{"origin":1977,"position":1},"title":"A calm response to an anti-evolution rant","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"May 14, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Back on April 25 I posted about a guest columnist in the Gainesville Sun railing against evolution,\u00c2\u00a0He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s itching for a fight. The writer's main point was that past debates at the University of Florida between creationists and scientists over evolution allegedly came down heavily in favor of the creationists. 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