Bill Nye Debates Ken Ham
on February 4, 2014Watch Bill Nye debate Ken Ham on whether creation is a viable model of origins in today’s modern scientific era.
Debate Answers
During the debate Bill Nye presented many statements and asked many questions. Because of the nature of the event, Ken Ham was often unable to respond directly to many of these statements.
However, the majority of Nye’s statements and questions have been addressed on our website or by other organizations who teach a young-earth creation. As the video plays, this box will feature a sampling of articles, videos, books, and other resources to help you get answers. Or you can make a selection from the drop-down menu above to get answers about a topic of your choice.
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Prof. Stuart Burgess
What is Science?
Dr. Raymond Damadian
Origins Science
Worldviews
Science—What Is It?
Plants and the Flood
Grand Canyon Sequence
Biblical Authority
Evolution Bad for Science
What is Science?
Dr. Raymond Damadian
Dr. Danny Faulkner
Prof. Stuart Burgess
Evolution Censorship
- The Story That Won’t Be Told: The Planned Lake Missoula Flood Interpretive Pathway
- JPL Worker Sues over Intelligent Design Demotion
- No Country For Ol’ Creationists
- Job Candidate Sues UK, Claiming Religion Cost Him the Post
- Do Creationists Publish in Notable Refereed Journals?
- The Smithsonian/Sternberg Controversy: Cast Doubt on Darwin, Get Cast Out.
- Slaughter of the Dissidents: The Shocking Truth about Killing the Careers of Darwin Doubters
Laws of Nature and Logic
Radiometric Dating
Global Flood on Mars?
Evolution and Creation Both Have Same Evidence
What is Science?
Predictions
Darwin’s Finches and Natural Selection
Evolution vs. Natural Selection
Evolution as Religion
Lenski’s E. coli Experiments
New Genetic Information
One Human Race
What is Science?
7 C’s of History
Genesis is Foundational
Morality/Sanctity of Life
Evolutionary Presuppositions Lead to Bad Science
Image of God
Fossils
- Do Fossils Show Signs of Rapid Burial?
- Doesn’t the Order of Fossils in the Rock Record Favor Long Ages?
- Order in the Fossil Record
- How Fast?
- Feedback: Where Are All the Bunny Fossils?
- Where Are All the Human Fossils?
- Why Don’t We Find Human and Dinosaur Fossils Together?
- Geologic Column
- Unlocking the Geologic Record
Ice Cores
Tree Rings
Canyon Creation
Polystrate Fossils
Human Evolution
Animal Migration
Speciation After the Flood
Lake Missoula
Noah’s Ark
Noah’s Care of the Animals
Predictions
- Successful Predictions by Creation Scientists
- Scientists for Creation
- The Creation of Planetary Magnetic Fields
- Completeness of the Fossil Record
- Do Creationists Believe in "Weird" Physics like Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, and String Theory?
- Weird Physics
- The Hubble Law
- Clipped fins hamper hatchery salmon, UVic biologist’s study finds (evolutionists made an incorrect prediction)
Tiktaalik
Natural Selection
Big Bang
- Universe by Design: Misconceptions About General Relativity, Cosmology, and the Big Bang
- Galaxies—Unexplained Spirals
- Science Still in the Dark about Dark Energy
- Do We Live in a Giant Cosmic Bubble?
- Have Cosmologists Discovered Evidence of Inflation?
- The Big Bust
- Universe by Design: Non-Biblical Alternatives to the Big Bang
- The Hubble Law
Radio Astronomy
Radiometric Dating
- Feedback: Radiometric Dating and Proof
- Billion-Fold Acceleration of Radioactivity Demonstrated in Laboratory
- The Fallacies of Radioactive Dating of Rocks
- Discordant Potassium-Argon Model and Isochron "Ages" for Cardenas Basalt (Middle Proterozoic) and Associated Diabase of Eastern Grand Canyon, Arizona
- Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth
- Radioactive "Dating" Failure
- More and More Wrong Dates
- Reason 8: Radioactivity
- Radioisotopes in the Diabase Sill (Upper Precambrian) at Bass Rapids, Grand Canyon, Arizona
- Carbon-14 Dating—Understanding the Basics
- Radiometric Dating: Back to Basics
- Radiometric Dating: Problems with the Assumptions
- Radiometric Dating: Making Sense of the Patterns
- Does Radiometric Dating Prove the Earth Is Old?
- Dating Methods
- Radioactive "Dating" in Conflict!
- Stumping Old-Age Dogma
- Field Studies in the Columbia River Basalt, Northwest USA
- Radioactive and Radiocarbon Dating
- Thousands ... Not Billions
- Earth’s Catastrophic Past
- Dating Fossils and Rocks
Nuclear Medical Technologist Schools in Kentucky
Mr. Nye criticized the lack of undergraduate programs in nuclear medicine in Kentucky. The Joint Review Committee on Educational Programs in Nuclear Medicine Technology (JRCNMT) currently lists one accredited program in the state.
Distant Starlight
Six Days of Creation
Wood in Basalt
Mt. St. Helen’s Lava Dome
Radiometric Dating
- Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth
- Feedback: Radiometric Dating and Proof
- Billion-Fold Acceleration of Radioactivity Demonstrated in Laboratory
- The Fallacies of Radioactive Dating of Rocks
- Discordant Potassium-Argon Model and Isochron “Ages” for Cardenas Basalt (Middle Proterozoic) and Associated Diabase of Eastern Grand Canyon, Arizona
- Radioactive “Dating” Failure
- More and More Wrong Dates
- Reason 8: Radioactivity
- Dating Methods
- Radioactive “Dating” in Conflict!
Death Before Sin?
Young Earth Dating Methods
- Feedback: Radiometric Dating and Proof
- Evidence for a Young World
- Feedback: What is the Most Compelling Scientific Evidence of a Young Earth?
- Feedback: Lunar Recession
- Aren’t Millions of Years Required for Geological Processes?
- How old is the earth?
- Geological Conflict: Young Radiocarbon Date for Ancient Fossil Wood Challenges Fossil Dating
Creation Cursed Because of Man’s Sin
Bible
- How Do We Know that the Bible Is True?
- How Did We Get the Bible in English?
- Dead Sea Scrolls—Timeless Treasures
- How Should We Interpret the Bible, Part 1: Principles for Understanding God’s Word
- How Should We Interpret the Bible, Part 2: Is Genesis 1–11 Historical Narrative?
- Is the Old Testament Reliable?
- Is the New Testament Reliable?
- Contradictions: Introduction
- How Should We Understand the Literary Genre of the Creation Account? (audio)
- Why Do We Regard the Creation Account as Historical Narrative? (audio)
Astronomy
- Straight Answers to Common Questions
- Universe by Design (read online, buy the book)
- Does the Bible Say Anything about Astronomy?
- Just Right for Life
- Feedback: Assuming the Origin of Comets
- Discussing Recent Developments in Astronomy
- The Big Bang and Evidence for the "Inflation Theory"—A Preliminary Comment
- How Do Current Astronomical Observations Relate to the Bible? (audio)
Animals and Carnivory
Laws of Nature—Uniformity
Creation Scientists
Animal Kinds/Baraminology
Planes Under Ice in Greenland
Sharp Teeth on Herbivores/Fructivores
Lake Missoula
Advanced Ancient Technology
Science—The Process of Science
Discovery of new ideas, especially those that challenge prevailing opinion.
- The Story That Won’t Be Told: The Planned Lake Missoula Flood Interpretive Pathway
- JPL Worker Sues over Intelligent Design Demotion
- No Country For Ol’ Creationists
- Job Candidate Sues UK, Claiming Religion Cost Him the Post
- Do Creationists Publish in Notable Refereed Journals?
- The Smithsonian/Sternberg Controversy: Cast Doubt on Darwin, Get Cast Out.
- Slaughter of the Dissidents: The Shocking Truth about Killing the Careers of Darwin Doubters
Pyramids/Ancient Civilizations
Religious People Who Do Not Accept Evolution
Do Evolutionists Throw Away Bad Ideas?
Expanding Universe and an Infinite God
Predictions
Origin of Universe
Accelerating Universe/Dark Matter/Dark Energy
First Law of Thermodynamics, Information, Time
- In the Beginning Was Information (read online, buy the book)
- Universe by Design: Conclusions and Recommendations
- Spacetime
C14 Dating
Creation Scientists
- Do Creationists Reject Science?
- Can Creationists Be "Real" Scientists?
- Real Scientists, Really?
- NASA Creationists!
- Creation scientists and other biographies of interest
- In Six Days: Why Fifty Scientists Choose to Believe in Creation (read online, buy the book)
- Don’t Creationists Deny the Laws of Nature?
- Are We Anti-Science?
- Testimony of a Professional Geologist
- In Six Days: Why Fifty Scientists Choose to Believe in Creation
- Creation scientists and other biographies of interest
- Joseph Lister: Father of Modern Surgery
- Antony van Leeuwenhoek: Creation "Magnified" Through His Magnificent Microscopes
- Prof. Andy McIntosh
- Super-Scientist Slams Society’s Spiritual Sickness!
- Renowned Scientist Visits Creation Museum
- Science or the Bible?
- Def ear to toleration?
- Is Science Secular?
- Why Would an Evolutionist Become a Doctor?
- Modern Medicine and Ancient Authority (video)
Lister and the Appendix
Second Law of Thermodynamics, Open Systems
Consciousness from Matter
Image of God
Dominion
Bible is True
Models May Be Wrong
Canyon Formation, Rapid Sediment Layers
Evidence Is Subject to Interpretation
Predictions
Young Earth/Universe
- Feedback: Radiometric Dating and Proof
- Evidence for a Young World
- Feedback: What is the Most Compelling Scientific Evidence of a Young Earth?
- Feedback: Lunar Recession
- Chapter 23: Aren’t Millions of Years Required for Geological Processes?
- Geological Conflict: Young Radiocarbon Date for Ancient Fossil Wood Challenges Fossil Dating
- How old is the earth?
Dating of Meteorites Dates Earth
Plate Tectonics
Magnetic Reversals/Sea Floor Spreading
- Fossil Magnetism Reveals Rapid Reversals of the Earth’s Magnetic Field
- The Earth’s Magnetic Field and the Age of the Earth
- #5 Rapidly Decaying Magnetic Field
- The “Principle of Least Astonishment”!
- The Earth’s Magnetic Field (2009)
- The Earth’s Magnetic Field (1979)
- A Catastrophic Breakup: A Scientific Look at Catastrophic Plate Tectonics
- Catastrophic Plate Tectonics: the Geophysical Context of the Genesis Flood
Second Law of Thermodynamics
- The Search for a Cursed Cosmos
- Just add energy …
- The Second Law of Thermodynamics and the Curse
- Arguments Christians Shouldn’t Use: The Second Law of Thermodynamics Began at the Fall
- Thoughts on the Goodness of Creation: In What Sense was Creation "Perfect"?
- The Search for a Cursed Cosmos
- The Scientific Case Against Evolution
Biblical Chronologies
Death Before Sin?
Abiogenesis, Origin of Life
Agricultural Technology and Human Population
Uniformity of Nature
Hermeneutics and OT Law
Survival of the Fittest
Evolution
Increase in Information?
Atheism
Survival of the Fittest
Human History and the Flood
Dinosaur Extinction
Worldviews
How Do We Know that the Bible Is True?
Creation, Flood and Babel legends
Worldviews
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
- Should We Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence?
- The Search for Alien Life
- Further Comments on the PBS-TV Series “Origins”
- Any Little Green Men Out There?
- The Bible and Modern Astronomy, Part 2
- Secrets of the Universe: What happens when people look in the wrong place for signs of intelligence outside Earth?
“There Is a Book . . .”
There were many defining moments in the historic debate between Bill Nye and Ken Ham at the Creation Museum in Northern Kentucky. For Ken Ham, one of those defining moments came when Bill Nye twice referred to origins as a “great mystery.” Each time, Ken Ham responded by saying, “There is a book . . .” Of course that book is the Bible, God’s Word, which gives us answers to the skeptical questions of the age.
Was there a defining moment that stood out to you during the debate? If not, it’s not too late! Your defining moment could be leading an outreach or just diving in to learn more so you can be ready to defend your faith. Your defining moment might even be receiving Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. Whatever that moment is for you, we would love for you to get connected with us and share your experience.
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