Noah's Ark Debate Analysis

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In 2014, science communicator Bill Nye “The Science Guy”, and fundamentalist Ken Ham debate took place in Petersburg, Kentucky at the Creation Museum. CNN’s Tom Foreman takes a stand at the podium before introducing the two debaters to the audience in the crowd, as well as to the viewers who are watching it at home. During the debate, many subtopics are brought up, branching from the main question, “Is creation a viable model of origins in today’s modern scientific era?” The topic of creationism and evolutionism appears to be an ongoing debate among scientist/creationist. According to fundamentalist Ken Ham, despite a source stating that scientists should know at all debate creationist, he states that creationist can be scientist. Even though …show more content…
Nye uses to support his idea, is by entering the large ship, Noah’s Ark, that ken ham said sailed across the middle east safely. Because of this biblical feature, areas such as Australia have populated amounts of animals who managed t get from the middle east to Australia in just the last for thousand years. The interesting part about this is that there are no kangaroo fossils anywhere in between the middle East and Australia. The Australian land bridge is what led this to be true, but the bridge disappeared within these four thousand years and no one has ever been able to find evidence about it. Another interesting statement made about Noah’s Ark is the ship was approximately five hundred feet long. the ship contained around fourteen thousand passengers and was built by a family who weren’t very skilled in that field. Comparing the two, the biggest wooden ship that we know, Queen Mary II, held only fourteen crew members, was built by very skilled shipwrights, but unlike Noah’s Ark that made it safely across and trough a mountain, Queen Mary II was twisted and shredded apart in the heavy seas. All scientists have the same exact experimental or observational evidence. “is creation a viable model of today’s origins in today’s modern scientific era?” according to ken ham, cratttion/evolution is a conflict between two physiological worldviews between a couple different accounts of origins or historical science belief. Ben Nye disagrees with this, stating that we will not succeed unless we believe in

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