The Highlights From Bill Nye's Debate With Creationist Ken Ham

The Highlights From Bill Nye's Debate With Creationist Ken Ham

The biggest problem with young-earth creationism is not that it is forced to deny evolution, but that it also must deny the rest of the laws of the universe, like gravity and the speed of light. We have some handle on how many galaxies are visible to us from Earth, and approximately how large those galaxies are. If the universe is only 6000 years old, all of those galaxies must be within 6000 light-years of us, since we can see them. If you take a pencil to what would happen if all that gravitational pull were exerted in a tiny area spanning only a few thousand light years, you'd find a chaotic universe. And forget gravity for a minute - I'm not even sure whether all those structures would physically fit into that area - even if there were no space between them. The largest LQG alone, for example, seems to be four billion light-years across!

If you withdraw the untenable young-earth theory, it is actually a simple matter to reconcile creationism with science. The Catholic Church has done so, with this simple position: however the universe is structured, that's how God created it, and Genesis explains it in terms which could be understood by people thousands of years ago.