I noticed a number of my Christian friends commenting about how they felt that this was an unfair debate because it showed “two extreme positions” rather than representing the moderate positions. I wasn’t able to find anything that Bill Nye said that wouldn’t be broadly held to by a clear majority of scientists (and I haven’t heard a lot of scientists or atheists complaining that Bill Nye doesn’t represent them), so he seems pretty mainstream to me. I also heard that Bill Nye was pushing atheistic doctrine, when he was clear that he is not attacking religion, just an overly literal interpretation of some passages. The summary of his argument was supposedly “there is no God because science”, which he just kept repeating throughout his talk. Obviously I’m coming from a different perspective, but I got the impression that Bill Nye was polite, reasonable and coherent throughout the debate, while Ken Ham stopped just short of an altar call on a number of occasions. You do wonder which atheist arguments wouldn’t result in Christians cowering from the oppression if this one was considered extreme.
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