Joe Bastardi has done on air combat with Bill Nye the Science guy who came to the gun battle with a knife and was clearly the loser. You would think ‘the science guy’ would know anything about climate but clearly he does not. You wonder how much he really knows about other science topics. Here is a post from our friends led by Calvin Beisner at the Cornwall Alliance:

What’s the message from Bill Nye “The Science Guy” to parents? Forget about God’s instructions in Deuteronomy 6 to teach your children about Him and His works. Leave your kids’ minds to us scientists!

Recently on CNN’s Newsroom the popular science teacher expressed frustration that the United States isn’t doing enough to fight global warming.

Nye insists that “tens of thousands of scientists...are very concerned” about catastrophic, anthropogenic global warming (CAGW), while “a few people...are...drawing attention to the idea that uncertainty is the same as doubt.”

“We in the science education community chip away at this problem all the time,” Nye said.

Nye and his fellow alarmists have a lot of chipping to do.

One hopes he’s just unaware, not dishonestly concealing the fact, that over 31,000 scientists have signed a petition saying, “There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate.”

Drawing what he calls a “disturbing” analogy between skepticism of CAGW and skepticism of evolution, Nye simply defines anyone who questions this view as benighted. “We have an enormous population of people in the United States who don’t believe in evolution, the fundamental idea in all of life science,” he said on Newsroom.

How defensible does Nye think that is? “It would be like saying I don’t believe in earthquakes or something.”

In a recent YouTube video that went viral, Nye equated belief in evolution with scientific literacy:

I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world that’s completely inconsistent with everything we observe in the universe, that’s fine. But don’t make your kids do it because we need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.

“Because we need them”? Who are “we,” and what gives them the right to demand control of our children’s minds?

Ironically, in 2011 Nye received the “In Praise of Reason” award from the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, a program of the Center for Inquiry, which purports to be dedicated to “promoting and defending science, reason, and free inquiry in all aspects of human interest” (emphasis added).

If Nye has felt frustrated about convincing Americans of either CAGW or evolution, he should take heart. Help is on its way.

As we told you recently, the educational bureaucracies that dominate our public schools are in advanced stages of developing “Next Generation Science Standards” (NGSS) that will indoctrinate students with a secular, atheistic worldview and belief in both evolution and CAGW.

That’s why the Cornwall Alliance is gearing up to prepare environmental stewardship curriculum for grades K 12 curriculum that will be firmly rooted in Biblical worldview, theology, and ethics, coupled with excellent science and economics, first for Christian schools, then for public and secular private schools. Will you help us with your generous donation today?

The need has never been more urgent.

NGSS’s flagship product, A Framework for K12 Science Education, will expand and solidify the anti-Christian worldview already reigning in America’s public schools.

Let me give you just one example. The Bible clearly teaches that people are supposed to fill and rule the earth to enhance its fruitfulness, beauty, and safety which implies that they can and should have an impact for good on the natural world.

But the NGSS says, “Human activities now cause land erosion and soil movement ... [and] [a]ir and water pollution ...with damaging effects on other species and on human health.” Well, yes, sometimes. But the standards never mention that we can also improve on nature, as the long-term rise in human life expectancy that started with the Industrial Revolution and continues even now demonstrates.

The assumption is clear: what people do is bad. A draft of performance expectations says, “Things that people do to live comfortably can affect the world around them. But they can make choices that reduce their impacts on the land, water, air, and other living things...” If their impacts were good, why would they want to reduce them?

As World magazine environment reporter Daniel James Devine reports, “High school students will be taught that fossil and DNA discoveries support common ancestry, and that one species can evolve into two. Not only will they learn that human activities have increased ‘the frequency and intensity’ of natural hazards like ‘floods, droughts, forest fires, [and] landslides,’ they’ll study the ‘feasibility of geoengineering’ projects to slow global climate change.”

Rather than letting our children’s minds be taken captive by the world, we want to help them learn to “take every thought captive to obey Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5).