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marmar

(77,066 posts)
Mon Oct 26, 2015, 09:35 PM Oct 2015

Is there a more appropriately named person than Ken Ham?





Creationist Ken Ham launched another attack against Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye on Sunday after Nye released a short video explaining key things to remember about climate change, the Friendly Atheist reported.

“We don’t need to be concerned about drastic climate change,” Ham wrote on his blog. “Our climate, and the checks and balances that keep it operating within safe parameters, were designed by an all-wise Creator.”

In the video, released by National Geographic earlier this month, Nye identified five key points for viewers to remember about global warming, listed below in his words:

• “The atmosphere is thin. Barely 60 miles, 100 kilometers, in outer space.”
• “There’s 7.3 billion people breathing and burning.”
• “All this heat energy in the atmosphere is changing things. It’s not just getting warmer, it’s changing.”
• “This warmth is making the ocean get bigger. When the ocean rises [by a few inches], this whole area will be under water, and not just this area, that area, that’s Miami.”
• “But the main, main, thing, everybody, is the speed, it’s the rate at which things are changing. Oh yes, the world was once warmer, there was once more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than there is today, but all of this never happened this fast. And that’s what you gotta get your heads around.”


Ham, who debated the “Science Guy” last year, tried to dismiss Nye’s first point by claiming that the world was already the “perfect size” for its type of atmosphere.

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“Does he realize that, from his atheistic perspective, man is just an evolved animal and, in being consistent with an evolutionary ‘survival of the fittest’ worldview, population alarmists could suggest mass killings or forced sterilizations as possible solutions in reducing the population?” Ham argued. “I’m sure he would be aghast at such suggestions — but then on what basis does he anchor his morality and determine what is ultimately right and wrong in this world? It comes down to one’s worldview. What solutions are there in Nye’s game of ‘blame man and his increasing population’?” ..............(more)

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/creationist-ken-hams-bizarre-rebuttal-of-bill-nye-climate-change-alarmists-could-push-for-mass-killings/



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Is there a more appropriately named person than Ken Ham? (Original Post) marmar Oct 2015 OP
Ham is half baked. Buzz cook Oct 2015 #1

Buzz cook

(2,471 posts)
1. Ham is half baked.
Mon Oct 26, 2015, 09:41 PM
Oct 2015

He can't argue himself out of a paper bag relying as he does on the fake science and cheesy word play.

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