Bill Nye Debates Ken Ham - HD

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What's really sad to me is that while we can debate until we're exhausted on this subject, no one will ever be convinced of anything unless they invite God into their lives. I often encourage people to give it one shot, just speak to him, in an honest tone, he will match your faith because you have opened an avenue for him to speak to you. People just don't understand that we are simply not strong enough to handle his splendor and glorious being. He expresses himself in the physical plane through the beauty and design in his creations, and in his designs we remember on a deep level that we are of him. Too much thinking is the parable represented by Eve and the apple. Once we try and conceptualize the world on our own without God's instruction, we become lost as he is too great for our minds to understand. If you don't open yourself to him, he cannot show you his miracles because you wouldn't believe it even if he presented them to you. Life in itself is a miracle, and they are missing and missing it, very sad they can't see.

The Creation, the Fall, the Flood, the Tower etc. aren't parables but brief accounts of actual human history. If people aren't grounded in God's Word and can't accept it as truth, all of it, then there's no reason to believe any of it. Of course, I understand the Bible is made up of many different genres but Genesis is a historical narrative and the whole Bible is God-breathed truth.
 
The Creation, the Fall, the Flood, the Tower etc. aren't parables but brief accounts of actual human history. If people aren't grounded in God's Word and can't accept it as truth, all of it, then there's no reason to believe any of it. Of course, I understand the Bible is made up of many different genres but Genesis is a historical narrative and the whole Bible is God-breathed truth.

i hope you know what i mean when i say bravo. lol
 
And about reality, creationism vs (whatever it is the Godless call their disbelief) is so profoundly misunderstood. God can do anything. He can change things up at any time. He holds the atoms together that creates everything we know. If he wanted, he could change reality and science drastically at any time - which is already happening in the scientific world. They are discovering more and more deviations from long held beliefs. He can and may do ANYTHING. And they continue down that maze which turns and turns and the more they think they answer, more and more questions arise. The answer is solved through him, and only him. And I praise him for showing me so I never have to experience the confusion that comes with not understanding his ultimate and perfect being. For those on that slippery road to a complete and total break from God, always remember to be kind and loving toward them. That may be the only thing they remember to carry them back, his deeply profound and undeniable love for us. This is not a win/win situation here. I'm wondering if debate is even his will. Does God debate? He is long-suffering with patience for his beloved to reach out to him. I always wonder if he is waiting to see if the tide will change before he closes this system down. Rainbows, you know.
 
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the proposed differences are tiny. We know light behaves differently in different mediums. It's nothing new. This article is talking about a differential of 0.005 femtoseconds in different vacuum conditions. That's 0,05 millionths of a billionth of a second per square meter, and it's not applicable all the time either. It makes very little difference.

So if you freely acknowledge that the speed of light is not constant, how do you know it wasn't significantly faster at the start of time, thus making the measurement of time using this method void?
 
So if you freely acknowledge that the speed of light is not constant, how do you know it wasn't significantly faster at the start of time, thus making the measurement of time using this method void?
Can I add a follow-up?

When light is slowed down via a medium such as water,
how does it get back up to its normal speed without
any energy input after it leaves the medium?
Light defies the very laws of physics. How is this possible?

Hint: light is not natural, it is Supernatural.
 
What I find amazing is that in this thread, people are saying their god changes physical constants on a grand scale to make the world look completely different than it actually is. In another thread, people are saying that their god is the only reason that physical reality is reliable and can be trusted, because he keeps things constant.

Which is it? Does he keep the laws of reality in place, so that reality can be trusted and we can do science, or does he fiddle with them, to make appearances deceiving?
 
Can I add a follow-up?

When light is slowed down via a medium such as water,
how does it get back up to its normal speed without
any energy input after it leaves the medium?
Light defies the very laws of physics. How is this possible?

Hint: light is not natural, it is Supernatural.

No, you just misunderstand the concept. Its to do with refraction, like in a prism. Light is refracted in water, but since it is a form of electromanetic radiation, it doesn't 'slow down' per se, it just takes longer to travel through denser mediums.

A photon is energy, not mass. So the logic of mass can't be applied to it. You're saying that it 'slows down' and 'speeds up', but technically, mass hinders it.

Technically, the light has further to go in water, or through glass, than it does in air, so it appears to be going slower in water. It isn't going any slower, though, it's just going a further distance. It's speed doesn't change, the distance it has to travel does.
 
Sorry, but so much of what you said has been proven wrong time and time again.

I skimmed through your post, and you mentioned T-Rex bones have been found with soft tissue. I remember hearing about this story, and it was a total fraud. There were structures common in soft tissues found within the bones, but there wasn't actually any soft tissue.

The most famous paleontologist in the world, Harvard’s Stephen Jay Gould, said, “The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology.” (Note” “extreme rarity” is Harvard-speak for “nada, zilch, zippo.”)

Why would a scientist who accepts evolution admit to evolution being unprovable? This should raise a red flag.

Look up the full quote. This is a very common quote mine. Creationists leave out the part where he talks about how fossils have been found.

"To the surprise of many, ducks,1 squirrels,2 platypus,3beaver-like4 and badger-like5 creatures have all been found in ‘dinosaur-era’ rock layers along with bees, cockroaches,frogs and pine trees. Most people don’t picture a T. rex walking along with a duck flying overhead, but that’s what the so-called ‘dino-era’ fossils would prove!"

No, they haven't. Whoever said this is clearly lying. But maybe I'm wrong, could you provide a source?

I won't go over your entire post because I don't want to spend all night looking for both sources that prove your points wrong, and the sources of your claims and how they don't actually say what you believe them to say.
 
I've actually got round to watching the program. I have seen Ken Ham 'debate' before and the only drawback is that I find he is not the best debater. However, I do find is arguments compelling.