So the big debate between Bill Nye the Science Guy and Ken "were you there?" Ham happened.
I didn't watch it live, but did check in on PZ Myers' live-blogging, and one might think, based on that, that Nye didn't do as badly as I'd feared. Not because Nye is incapable; but because no one can win a debate with a creationist. Ham, it seems, did his usual when confronted with contradictions: the Bible is true because it's in the Bible.
The debate occurred at Ham's creation "museum." The audience was mostly made of his supporters. Were minds changed? Did Nye's arguments make anyone think twice? After it was over, a person who was there asked audience members to write down questions for Bill Nye and hold them for pictures. Here's a sampling. The rest are here, if you want to torture yourself.
Oh god oh god oh god oh god.
"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." Orwell
"“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
Plato
"The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant" Robespierre
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