Are Creationists Abusive Morons?

My oldest son loves science.  He's a fan of just about anything that has to do with the natural order.  Thus, it's no surprise that he loves the work of Bill Nye - the "science guy."  Recently, Bill Nye spent time pontificating about creationism and it's affect on children.  You can see the video here.  Take time to watch the short video.  It's mind-boggling stuff.

According to the science guy, "the denial of evolution is unique to the US."  I'm guessing Nye doesn't travel very much - at least not internationally.  If he did, he would know that a vast number of people from every continent on this planet actually deny the theory of evolution.  But that's not the point.  To Nye, "evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science."

So let me get this right.  The idea of all ideas - I mean the one that everything hinges on - can't even be proven as a scientific fact?  We're going to hang all our hopes and dreams on a theory?  And to think scientists often depict themselves as anti-faith.  It's hard to imagine a supposition that requires more faith than that.

Let's get to the heart of the matter.  Nye is basically saying that raising children within a creationist worldview is a form of child abuse.  To him it's an especially awful form of abuse because it causes children to become like their creationist parents - crazy, scientifically-illiterate fools who can't "build stuff and solve problems."  Creationists tend to "hold everyone else back" by making things "fantastically complicated."

It's a good thing Bill Nye is the science guy because he could never claim to be a history buff.  If he knew anything about the greatest scientists of human history he would know that most of them were creationists.  Perhaps you've heard of some of them - Isaac Newton, Louis Pasteur, Johann Kepler, Leonardo DaVinci, Blaise Pascal - just to name a few.  At least 40 scientific disciplines were established by creationists and many other noteworthy discoveries were made by men (and women) such as this.  Check the list here.  I guess they were all "holding us back."

Bill Nye oozes with pride as he arrogantly repeats that familiar refrain, "In another couple of centuries that worldview (creationism) won't exist."  And why?  Because "there's no evidence for it."  The psalmist would beg to differ:  "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork" (Psalm 19:1).  Paul would agree:  "For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead" (Rom. 1:20).

So the science guy thinks that it borders on abuse to teach our kids biblical creationism.  I say that the abuse happens when we withhold the truth of God's Word from our kids and teach them that they've descended from apes.  I say abuse happens when we act as though "God is dead" (Nietzsche), or that even if He is alive He can't be known.

Bill Nye isn't the first quasi-intellectual to predict the soon-coming disappearance of the biblical/creationist worldview.  Rest assured he won't be the last.  I'm not too concerned though.  When he's dead and gone, the truth of God's Word will stand:  "The grass withers, and its flower falls away, but the Word of the Lord endures forever" (1 Peter 1:24b-25).  Hitch your wagon to Bill Nye if you want to.  I'm going to stay with the One who was there when everything was created.