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 not able 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. Here is a sampling of articles, videos, audios, books, and other resources.

Note: several of these articles are technical in nature.

Animal Migration

• Animal Migrations
• Church Leader “Aghast” at Belief in a Worldwide Flood?

Animals and Carnivory

• Creation’s Original Diet and the Changes at the Fall
• How Did Defense/Attack Structures Come About?
• “Odd Saber-Toothed Beast Discovered—Preyed on . . . Plants?”

Astronomy

• Straight Answers to Common Questions
• Universe by Design
• 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
• Spacetime: Virtual Particles, Time, . . . and the Trinity
• Big Bang—The Evolution of a Theory
• Light-Travel Time: A Problem for the Big Bang
• Universe by Design: Conclusions and Recommendations
• How Do Current Astronomical Observations Relate to the Bible? (audio)

Bad Evolutionary Arguments

• Peppered moths—back on the agenda?
• An Examination of Error: Trends in science teaching and textbooks
• Error in the UK Classroom
• Recapitulation Repackaged and Re-Applied
• Something fishy about gill slits!
• The Human Vermiform Appendix: A General Surgeon’s Reflections
• Appendix

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
• Why Don’t Christians Follow All the Old Testament Laws?
• How Should We Understand the Literary Genre of the Creation Account? (audio)
• Why Do We Regard the Creation Account as Historical Narrative? (audio)

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
• The Origin of the Universe
• Universe by Design: Introduction
• The Bible and Modern Astronomy, Part 1
• Big Bang—The Evolution of a Theory

Canyon Creation

• Canyon Creation: Faster Than Most People Would Think Possible, Beauty Was Born from Devastation
• Feedback: What Is Unique About the Colorado River?
• Durham’s Grand Canyon: A Canyon in an Instant
• Mount St. Helens—Evidence for Genesis!
• Mount St. Helens in Washington State
• Why Is Grand Canyon So Significant for Geology? (audio)

Climate Change

• Should We Be Concerned About Climate Change?
• Global Warming: Examine the Issue Carefully
• Human-Caused Global Warming Slight So Far
• How Much Global Warming Is Natural?

Consciousness from Matter

• Apes Are Our Brothers—Just Ask the Post Office
• What Makes Us Human, and Why It Is Not the Brain: A Creationist Defense of the Soul
• Evolutionary Psychology: Why It Fails as a Science and Is Dangerous
• The Essential Nature of Man

Coral Reefs

• Ancient “Fossil Reefs”—Formed in the Flood?
• Massive Modern Reefs—Finding Time to Grow

Creation, Flood, and Babel Legends

• Genesis—The Original Myth Buster
• Is Genesis 1–11 a Derivation from Ancient Myths?
• The Genesis Flood—Not Just Another Legend
• Was the Dispersion at Babel a Real Event?

Creation Account

• Could God Really Have Created Everything in Six Days?
• The Days of Creation: A Semantic Approach

Creation Scientists

• Do Creationists Reject Science?
• Can Creationists Be “Real” Scientists?
• Real Scientists, Really?
• NASA Creationists!
• Creation scientists and other biographies of interest
• Read online In Six Days: Why Fifty Scientists Choose to Believe in Creation
• Don’t Creationists Deny the Laws of Nature?
• God and Natural Law
• Never Assume: 3 Assumptions Evolutionists Make
• God and Natural Law
• 3 Assumptions Evolutionists Make
• Are We Anti-Science?
• Testimony of a Professional Geologist
• In Six Days: Why Fifty Scientists Choose to Believe in Creation
• Joseph Lister: Father of Modern Surgery
• Antony van Leeuwenhoek: Creation “Magnified” Through His Magnificent Microscopes
• Biography of 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?
• Atheism: An Irrational Worldview
• Evolution: The Anti-science
• Why Would an Evolutionist Become a Doctor?
• Modern Medicine and Ancient Authority (video)
• Revolutionary Atmospheric Invention by Victim of Anti–creationist Discrimination
• Biography of Prof. Stuart Burgess
• Biography of Dr. Danny Faulkner
• Can Creation Models Be Wrong?

Dinosaur Extinction

• The Extinction of the Dinosaurs
• Origin of dinosaur-killing asteroid remains a mystery
• What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs?
• What Does the Bible Teach about Dinosaurs? (audio)

Distant Starlight

• A Proposal for a New Solution to the Light Travel Time Problem
• Distant Starlight: The Anisotropic Synchrony Convention
• Anisotropic Synchrony Convention—A Solution to the Distant Starlight Problem

Dominion Mandate

• Can an Evolutionist Celebrate Earth Day?
• Feedback: Does the Bible Prohibit Space Travel?
• Are They Teaching the Truth in Biology Class?

Evidence Is Subject to Interpretation

• Cosmologists Can’t Agree and Are Still In Doubt!
• The Pigs Took It All
• How Shall We Refute the "Evidence" Evolutionists Present? (audio)
• What Can We Learn from the Scriptures About Astronomy? (audio)

Evolution

• Can Natural Processes Explain the Origin of Life?
• Why the Miller–Urey Research Argues Against Abiogenesis
• Information in Living Organisms
• Bottom-Up Science
• The Origin of Microorganisms
• Genetic ‘Crossing-over’ Is No Help to Evolution
• A House Divided
• Is Evolution a Religion?
• Feedback: Evidence of New Genetic Information?
• Is Evolution a Religion?
• Leading anti-creationist philosopher admits that evolution is a religion
• Feedback: Evidence of New Genetic Information?
• Gene Duplication: Evolution Shooting Itself in the Foot
• In the Beginning Was Information

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 & Dinosaur Fossils Together?
• Geologic Column
• Unlocking the Geologic Record

Genetics

• Professor of Genetics Says ‘No!’ to Evolution
• Genetics and Biblical Demographic Events
• Feedback: “The Search for the Historical Adam” and Population Genomics
• How Genomes are Sequenced and Why it Matters: Implications for Studies in Comparative Genomics of Humans and Chimpanzees

God

• How Do We Know There Is a God?
• Is There Really a God? How Would You Answer?
• Is There Really a God?

Gospel

• The Gospel of Jesus Christ
• The Biggest Question of All
• Seven C’s of History
• What’s the Core Message of the Answers in Genesis Ministry?
• Man: The Image of God
• Biblically, Could Death Have Existed before Sin?
• Did Death of any Kind Exist Before the Fall?
• Twenty Reasons Why Genesis and Evolution Do Not Mix
• Beauty and the Curse
• The Effects of the Curse

Human Evolution

• Did Humans Really Evolve from Apelike Creatures?
• Making Man out of Monkeys
• It’s an Ape… It’s a Human… It’s… It’s… a Missing Link!
• What Proof Do We Have of a Literal Adam and Eve? (audio)

Human History and the Flood

• The Pyramids of Ancient Egypt
• Were the Pyramids Built Before the Flood?
• Doesn’t Egyptian Chronology Prove That the Bible Is Unreliable?
• Feedback: How Does Man’s History Fit with the Biblical Timeline?
• Dating the Pyramids
• Evidentialism—The Bible and Assyrian Chronology
• Are There Gaps in the Genesis Genealogies?
• Why the Electric Battery was Forgotten
• Ancient Civilizations and Modern Man
• A Comparison from Secular Historical Records
• Farming Frustrations?
• Selling Science to the Public
• Billions of People in Thousands of Years?

Ice Cores

• Do Greenland Ice Cores Show over One Hundred Thousand Years of Annual Layers?
• Do Ice Cores Show Many Tens of Thousands of Years?
• Rapid Changes in Oxygen Isotope Content of Ice Cores
• Deep Layers"

Lake Missoula

• Aren’t Millions of Years Required for Geological Processes?
• The Story That Won’t Be Told: The Planned Lake Missoula Flood Interpretive Pathway
• The Mystery of the Megaflood
• The Ice Age
• Where Does the Ice Age Fit?
• Catastrophic Melting
• Continuing Catastrophes

Mars

• Water on Mars: A Creationist Response
• Was Noah a Martian?
• Mars, a Testament to Catastrophe

Morality, Sanctity of Life

• Morality and the Irrationality of an Evolutionary Worldview
• Morality—the Secular Response?
• When Does Life Begin?
• Euthanasia: Hospital Humanism

Natural Selection

• Does Natural Selection Exist?
• Conquering Cockroaches
• Is Natural Selection the Same Thing as Evolution?
• The Effect of Mutations down on the Farm
• Finding God in Galapagos
• “Evolution” of Finch Beaks—Again
• Natural Selection vs. Evolution
• A Poke in the Eye? Lenski and the adaptive acrobatics of E. coli

Noah’s Ark

• Was There Really a Noah’s Ark & Flood?
• What Did Noah’s Ark Look Like?
• Genuine Ark, Part 6: Large Construction Crew
• Feedback: Was Noah’s Ark Seaworthy, or Is That Impossible?
• The large ships of antiquity
• Thinking Outside the Box

Noah’s Care of the Animals

• How Could Noah Fit the Animals on the Ark and Care for Them?
• Caring for the Animals on the Ark

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.

• Joint Review Committee on Educational Programs in Nuclear Medicine Technology (JRCNMT)
• Answers Bill Nye—Rebutting Nye’s Argument That Kentucky Is Backward Technologically

One Human Race

• Are There Really Different Races?
• One Blood
• OneHumanRace.com

Origin of Life

• The Elusive Origin of Life
• Life: Designed to Inspire Awe and Aid Learning

Plants and the Flood

• How Did Plants Survive the Flood?
• What Happened to Land Plants During the Flood?

Plate Tectonics

• Can Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Explain Flood Geology?
• Plate Tectonics
• World Underwater
• Time for an Upgrade?
• Does the Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Model Assume Too Much Uniformitarianism?

Polystrate Fossils

• How Fast?
• Collective Portrait
• Feedback: What is the Most Compelling Scientific Evidence of a Young Earth?

Predictions

• Can Bible-Based Predictions Lead to Scientific Discoveries?
• 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
• Does the Creation Model Make Predictions? Absolutely!
• Clipped fins hamper hatchery salmon, UVic biologist's study finds (evolutionists made an incorrect prediction)
• Back Problems: How Darwinism Misled Researchers

Radio Astronomy

• The Big Bang and Evidence for the “Inflation Theory”—A Preliminary Comment
• Discussing Recent Developments in Astronomy
• Universe by Design: Appendix
• Echoes of the big bang … or noise?
• Universe by Design: Problems with the Big Bang
• Big Bang Explanations Fall Flat

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
• Carbon-14 in Fossils and Diamonds
• A Creationist Puzzle: 50,000-Year-Old Fossils
• 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!
• Radio-Dating in Rubble
• 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

Religious People Who Do Not Accept Evolution

• Feedback: The God of an Old Earth
• Feedback: Deeply Saddened over Old-Earth Compromise
• Jewish Scientists Who Oppose Darwinism
• Muslims—Creationists’ Friend?
• Building Bridges with Muslims
• Evolution, the Election and the “Enlightened”
• Council of Europe Proposes Creation Motion Again
• A Young Earth—It’s Not the Issue!

Reversal of Earth’s Magnetic Field

• Fossil Magnetism Reveals Rapid Reversals of the Earth’s Magnetic Field
• The Earth’s Magnetic Field and the Age of the Earth
• Rapidly Decaying Magnetic Field
• The “Principle of Least Astonishment”!
• The Earth’s Magnetic Field
• Still Trying to Make Ice Cores Old
• Evidence for a Young World

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

Science—What Is It?

• What Is Science?
• Two Kinds of Science?
• De-Nyeing Science
• Is Science Secular?
• Feedback: Evolutionary Call to Arms

Scopes Trial

• Why Is the Scopes Trial Significant?
• The Scopes “Monkey Trial”—80 Years Later

Sea Floor Spreading

• A Catastrophic Breakup: A Scientific Look at Catastrophic Plate Tectonics
• Catastrophic Plate Tectonics: the Geophysical Context of the Genesis Flood

Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

• Should We Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence?
• 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?
• The Search for Alien Life

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 Mystery of Life’s Origin: Reassessing Current Theories
• The Scientific Case Against Evolution

Speciation After the Flood

• No Kind Left Behind: Recounting the Animals on the Ark
• Human Evolution—Faster than a Speeding Bullet
• Do Species Change?
• Zonkeys, Ligers, and Wolphins, Oh My!
• What Are “Kinds” in Genesis?
• Rapid Speciation (video)
• Rapid Speciation (video)

Survival of the Fittest

• Misreading Earth's Groanings: Why Evolutionists and Intelligent Design Proponents Fail Ecology 101
• A Fin with a Function
• Persuaded by the Evidence

Tiktaalik

• Tiktaalik and the Fishy Story of Walking Fish
• Tiktaalik and the Fishy Story of Walking Fish, Part 2
• Did Tiktaalik’s Pelvis Prepare Fish to Walk on Land?
• Fish Fins Are Not Fingers That Failed
• Tiktaalik—Walking Off the Stage

Tree Rings

• Tree Rings and Biblical Chronology
• Living Tree ‘8,000 Years Older Than Christ’ (?)
• Biblical Chronology and the 8,000-Year-Long Bristlecone Pine Tree-Ring Chronology
• Feedback: Revisiting Bristlecone Pines and the Bible
• Much-Inflated Carbon-14 Dates from Subfossil Trees: A New Mechanism

Worldviews

• What’s Your Worldview?
• Evolutionism—Is There Such a Word?
• Critical Thinking Questions
• Examples of Critical Thinking: Scientific Application
• Examples of Critical Thinking: Biblical Application
• Why Is It Impossible to Understand Our World Without a Proper View of God and His Word? (audio)

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?