For Answers in Genesis CEO and President Ken Ham, those who neither fully understand the Bible nor science should not go around encouraging women to "murder" their babies, just like what The Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye, also known as "The Science Guy," did in a BigThink video.
"If you're going to say when an egg is fertilised it therefore has the same rights as an individual, then whom are you going to sue? Whom are you going to imprison? Every woman who's had a fertilised egg pass through her? Every guy who's sperm has fertilised an egg and then it didn't become a human? Have all these people failed you?" Nye asked in the video.
Nye then put down Christians and other religious groups who are standing up against abortion for showing "a deep scientific lack of understanding."
"I know it was written or your interpretation of a book written 5,000 years ago, 50 centuries ago, makes you think that when a man and a woman have sexual intercourse they always have a baby. That's wrong, and so to pass laws based on that belief is inconsistent with nature," Nye maintained.
For his part, Ham wrote in his Answers in Genesis blog that it's ironic Nye kept saying that people should not go telling women what to do, but "through the whole video clip he is telling women what to do — that they should abort (murder, really) a baby if they want to."
He then accused Nye of "attacking" the Bible and following a "religion" of naturalism. The creationist also expressed concern that Nye is "brainwashing" generation of kids into naturalism, which in truth is just atheism.
"It's a battle over God's Word and man's word — the two ultimate religions that have fueled a battle that has been raging around us since the events of Genesis 3 when Adam and Eve trusted man's word instead of God's Word," Ham said.
"In this video, Bill Nye attacks the Bible because his starting point is that man determines his own worldview — that there is no God who owns us. Then using his religion, his starting point that all life is the result of natural processes, and therefore one's worldview is moral relativism, he proceeds to plead (yes, plead) that women be allowed to abort their babies," he added.
