Voices
DAVID
MACMILLAN
HUFFINGTON
02.02.14
AP PHOTO/ED REINKE
As a Reformed Creationist,
I Hope Bill Nye Doesn’t
Underestimate Ken Ham
I
T’S RARE TO SEE A PROMINENT scientist agree to a public debate with someone from the creation science movement. Giving equal time to both sides might be a foundational principle of American dialogue, but it paints the issue
as more of a controversy than it actually is. That’s why it
surprised a lot of people when Bill Nye, scientist and TV
personality, agreed to debate the president of Cincinnati’s
Creation Museum, Ken Ham. ¶ Even so, it’s not hard to see
why Nye has chosen to engage creationism directly. The most
recent polling shows one in three Americans still won’t accept that all living things evolved from a common ancestor.
Ken Ham,
founder of
the nonprofit
ministry
Answers
in Genesis,
poses with an
animatronic
dinosaur at
the Creation
Museum in
Petersburg,
Ky., in 2007.