"The Science Guy" Bill Nye did not have nice things to say after he visited the Christian attraction Ark Encounter in Kentucky, but Answers in Genesis founder Ken Ham thinks the scientist is just being ridiculously silly.
Nye told NBC News that the Ark Encounter was "disturbing," and every single exhibit was "absolutely wrong." He also claimed that the attraction encourages visitors to trust faith more than science, thus reducing their ability to think critically.
For his part, Ham writes on his Facebook page that Nye's comments were "really disturbing and troubling."
"Nye wants to convince all children to believe they are just animals who arose by natural processes—and that there's no God! The implications of this belief on the question of the meaning and purpose of life are beyond serious!" he says.
With Nye's accusation that the exhibits were wrongly interpreted, Ham argues that their exhibits "show quite conclusively that observational science in the fields of geology, genetics, and anthropology confirm biblical history concerning man, animals, and the Flood of Noah's day."
Ham accuses Nye of having blind faith, since the latter believes life came from natural processes. Ham is also shaking his head to Nye's evidence that "DNA, including its information and language system, arising by natural processes, came about to the fact that 'we're here.'"
Nye also wants children to be critical thinkers, but Ham says he is undercutting children's ability to determine for themselves what is right and what is not by stating life arose from natural processes.
"You see, Bill Nye doesn't want parents to be allowed to teach their children about God. He wants to brainwash kids, to indoctrinate them, in his naturalistic (atheistic) religion of meaninglessness and hopelessness," says Ham.
In the video posted on Ham's Facebook page, Ham asks Nye to provide a moral basis for why people wear clothes. Nye responds by saying that people in the scientific community believe that human feelings and emotions are a result of evolution.
"So that we have sympathy for each other, that we get angry with each other, that we work very hard to raise our children, provide them with resources – [it] is deep within us. It's part of who we are. It's not a result of a top-down issuance of laws. That's the claim in science, and we observe this in other species," Nye explains.
Ham counters by saying that God gave people clothes "because of sin."
"The fact that we are wearing clothes is a reminder that God killed animals and clothed Adam and Eve," he says, arguing that this eventually paved the way for Jesus, who would one day come to "die for our sins."
"Died for your sin, Bill, and died for mine, be raised from the dead, and offer the free gift of salvation," Ham says.
