Billy Nye, Ken Ham, and the Living Dinosaur

In a prior blog post, I considered if creationist proponents were sometimes or often liars for their cause. But an interesting example of what appears to be significant dishonesty has come through the response to Bill Nye.

About a month ago, Bill Nye The Science Guy posted this video on Big Think:



And with that (and at this time 4.5+ million views), the creationists were in an uproar. Having one of the best known science educators in the US calling your entire educational program bad for children obviously isn't going to sit well. But the more prominent response came from the people at Answers in Genesis, run by Ken Ham.

Making their own videos in a similar style to the Big Think, they tried to say Nye didn't understand science, didn't want children to think critically, that creationists didn't fear evolution and teach it correctly, that evolution has nothing to do with engineering, and so on. All of which is laughably wrong, including the last statement.

And there is some joy in this video response to Ken Ham (though probably NSFW due to language and some female images).

I'm copying here the description in the video, in case it goes down and the good links and references get lost (as well as providing a buffer space to the video if you are at work).

Under normal circumstances I probably wouldn't have addressed a video like this because it's a little light on science, but since it was by one of the world's top-tier fucktards who happened to be rubbishing one of the most beloved educators in the country I decided that it was a golden opportunity to give the Reverend Ham the verbal drubbing he's been asking for for decades.
As I said, a little light on science for a regular HH, but nevertheless also a good opportunity to address some of the filthy creationist political propaganda that Mr. Ham was projectile spewing in his surpisingly amateurish video. Not sure whether there will be a censoring reaction to this, so please do what you can to help forestall, or failing that ameliorate, that eventuality as it's not clear to me as yet that creationists are smart enough to have realized that censorship only results in the object of their ire being exposed to a vastly larger audience than it would have been had they acted like decent human beings.
For those who don't know how, the video can be downloaded by pasting the URL into the box at www.keepvid.com.
If you feel the need to hear Ken Ham vomiting up his worthless opinions you can do so here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxX11c1cSWU
If you want to see the Reverend Ham lying to children about biblical glasses you can do so here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5d3AaAL10U
And if you want to have a laugh at Ken's monkeys, whom I mention in the video, you can find them in their enclosure here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-AyDtD6sPA
Bill Nye's Big Think video can be enjoyed here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHbYJfwFgOU
KnownNoMore's channel is here (please watch and sub -- he's *excellent*):
http://www.youtube.com/knownnomore
Wisdominnature7's channel (see note above regarding KnownNoMore -- the same applies):
http://www.youtube.com/wisdominnature7
Scripts to this and all my other videos can be found here:
http://thelivingdinosaur.webs.com/transcripts.htm
Intro by the one-and-only ONESPECIES (check him out too!):
http://www.youtube.com/ONESPECIES
Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 9 in C major (K 73)
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