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Oh, hi kids! I have an incredible message for you.

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Hey, can someone take Germa back to the petting zoo?

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Wow! That looks like fun.

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Now, where was I? Oh, yes.

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In 2014, kids 12 and under come free.

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Hey! Shouldn't the comets be in the Planetarium?

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For the entire year, kids 12 and under come free.

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Hey, T-Rex! You better get back to the dinosaur den.

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As you can see, it's a very exciting place.

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Now tell your parents!

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Kids 12 and under free in 2014 when accompanied by a paying adult.

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We hope to see you soon!

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Good evening. I'm pleased to welcome you to Legacy Hall

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of the Creation Museum in Northern Kentucky

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in the metropolitan area of Cincinnati.

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I'm Tom Foreman from CNN and I'm pleased to be tonight's

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moderator for this Evolution versus Creation debate.

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This is a very old question! Where did we come from?

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My answer is from Washington this morning by airplane.

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(laughter from audience)

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But there is a much more profound, longer answer

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that people have sought after for a long time.

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So tonight's question to be debated is the following:

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Is Creation a viable model of origins in today's modern, scientific era?

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Our welcome extends to hundreds of thousands of people

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who are watching on the internet at debatelive.org.

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We're glad you have joined us.

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Of course, you are auditory and here,

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all the folks who've joined us as well.

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We're joined by 70 media representatives from many

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of the world's great news organizations.

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We're glad to have them here as well.

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And now let's welcome our debaters: Mr. Bill Nye and Mr. Ken Ham.

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(audience applauds)

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We had a coin toss earlier to determine

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who would go first of these two men.

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The only thing missing was Joe Namath in a fur coat.

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But it went very well. Mr. Ham won the coin toss

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and he opted to speak first. But first, let me tell you

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a little bit about both of these gentlemen.

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Mr. Nye's website describes him as a scientist,

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engineer, comedian, author, and inventor.

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Mr Nye, as you may know, produced a number of award-winning TV shows,

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including a program he became so well-known for:

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Bill Nye the Science Guy.

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While working on the Science Guy show, Mr. Nye won

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seven national Emmy awards for writing, performing,

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and producing the show. Won 18 Emmys in five years!

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including his latest title, <i>Bill Nye's Great Big Book of Tiny Germs</i>.

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Billy Nye is the host of three television series:

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his program, "The 100 Greatest Discoveries"--

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it airs on the Science Channel. "The Eyes of Nye"--

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airs on PBS stations across the country. He frequenly appears

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on interview programs to discuss a variety of science topics.

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Mr. Nye serves as Executive Director of the Planetary Society,

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the world's largest space interest group.

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He is a graduate of Cornell, with a Bachelors

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of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering.

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Mr. Ken Ham is the president and co-founder of Answers of Genesis,

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a bible-defending organization that upholds the authority

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of the scriptures from the very first verse.

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Mr. Ham is the man behind the popular, high-tech

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Creation Museum, where we're holding this debate.

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The museum has had 2 million visitors in six years

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and has attracted much of the world's media.

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The Answers in Genesis website, as well, trafficked

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with 2 million visitors alone last month. Mr. Ham is also

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a best-selling author, a much in-demand speaker,

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This is his second public debate on Evolution and Creation.

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The first was at Harvard, in the 1990s.

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Mr. Ham is a native of Australia. He earned

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a Bachelors degree in Applied Science, with an emphasis in

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as well as a Diploma of Education at the University

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of Queensland in Brisbon, Australia.

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And now...Mr. Ham, you opted to go first, so you will

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be first with your five minute opening statement.

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Well, good evening. I know that not everyone watching

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this debate will necessarily agree with what I have to say,

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but I'm an Aussie and live over here in America

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and they tell me I have an accent and so it doesn't matter

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what I say, some people tell me. We just like to hear you saying it.

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So...um...I hope you enjoy me saying it anyway.

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Well, the debate topic is this: Is Creation

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a viable model of origins in today's modern scientific era?

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there were lots of statements-- like this one

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from the Richard Dawkins Foundation.

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"Scientists should not debate Creationists. Period."

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And this one from one of the Discovery.com websites.

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"Should Scientists Debate Creationists?"

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You know, right here I believe there's a gross misrepresentation

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in our culture. We're seeing people being indoctrinated

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to believe that Creationists can't be Scientists.

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I believe it's all a part of secularists hi-jacking the word "Science".

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I want you to meet a modern-day scientist who's a Biblical Creationist.

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My name is Stuart Burgess.

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I'm a professor of Engineering Design at Bristol University in the U.K.

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I have published over a 130 scientific papers on

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the scientific design in Engineering and Biological systems.

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From my research work, I find that the scientific evidence

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fully supports Creationism as the best explanation to origins.

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I've also designed major parts of space crafts,

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launched by ESA and NASA.

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So here's a biblical Creationist,

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who's a scientist, who's also an inventor.

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And I want young people to understand that.

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You know, the problem, I believe, is this: we need to define terms correctly.

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We need to define Creation/Evolution in regard to origins

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and we need to define science. And in this opening statement,

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I want to concentrate on dealing with the word "science".

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I believe the word "science" has been hijacked by secularists.

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Now, what is science?

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Well, the origin of the word comes from the Classical Latin "scientia",

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which means "to know". And if you look up a dictionary,

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it'll say science means "the state of knowing, knowledge".

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But there's different types of knowledge and I believe

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this is where the confusion lies.

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There's experimental or observational sciences, as we call it.

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That's using the scientific method, observation,

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measurement, experiment, testing. That's what produces

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our technology, computers, space craft, jet planes,

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smoke detectors, looking at DNA, antibiotics, medicines and vaccines.

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You see, all scientists, whether Creationists or Evolutionists,

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actually have the same observational or experimental science.

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And it doesn't matter whether you're a Creationist or an Evolutionist,

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you can be a great scientist.

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For instance, he's an atheist, who is a great scientist--

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Craig Venter, one of the first researchers to sequence the human genome.

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Or Dr. Raymond Damadian. He is a man who invented

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the MRI scan and revolutionized medicine. He's a biblical Creationist.

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But I want us to also understand molecules-to-man

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evolution belief has nothing to do with developing technology.

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You see, when we're talking about origins, we're talking about the past.

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We're talking about our origins. We weren't there.

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We can't observe that, whether it's molecules-to-man evolution,

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or whether it's a creation account.

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I mean, you're talking about the past.

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We'd like to call that Origins or Historical Science,

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knowledge concerning the past. Here at the Creation Museum,

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we make no apology about the fact that our Origins or Historical science

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actually is based upon the biblical account of origins.

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Now, when you research science textbooks being used

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in public schools, what we found is this:

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by and large, they are Origins or Historical Science

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based upon man's ideas about the past--for instance, the ideas of Darwin.

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And our research has found that public school textbooks

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are using the same word "science" for Observational Science

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and Historical Science. They arbitrarily define science

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as naturalism and outlaw the supernatural.

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They present molecules-to-man evolution as fact.

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They are imposing, I believe, the religion

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of naturalism or atheism on generations of students.

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You see, I assert that the word "science" has been hijacked

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by secularists in teaching evolution to force the religion

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of naturalism on generations of kids.

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Secular evolutionists teach that all life developed

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by natural processes from some primordial form.

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That man is just an evolved animal, which has great bearing

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on how we view life and death.

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For instance, as Bill states, "It's very hard to accept,

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for many of us, that when you die, it's over."

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But, you see, the Bible gives us a totally different account of origins,

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of who we are, where we came from, the meaning of life, and our future.

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That through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin.

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But that God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son.

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Whoever believes in Him should not perish and have everlasting life.

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So is creation a viable model of origins in today's modern scientific era?

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I say the creation/evolution debate is a conflict

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between two philosophical worldviews based on two different accounts

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of origins or science beliefs and creation

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is the only viable model of historical science confirmed

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by observational science in today's modern scientific era.

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And that is time. I had the unenviable job of being the time-keeper here.

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So I'm like the referee of football they don't like,

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but I will periodically, if either one of our debaters

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runs over on anything, I will stop them in the name of keeping it fair for all.

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Mr. Ham, thank you for your comments. Now it's Mr. Nye's

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turn for a five minute opening statement. Mr. Nye.

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Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here.

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I very much appreciate you including me in your facility here.

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Now, looking around the room I think I see just one bow tie.

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Is that right? Just one. I'm telling you, once you try it--

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oh, there's two! That's great. I started wearing bow ties

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when I was young, in high school.

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My father showed me how. His father showed him.

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And there's a story associated with this, which I find remarkable.

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My grandfather was in the rotary, and he attended

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a convention in Philadelphia, and even in those days,

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at the turn of the last century, people rented tuxedos.

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And the tuxedo came with a bow tie--untied bow tie.

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So he didn't know how to tie it.

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So...wasn't sure what to do, but he just took a chance.

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He went to the hotel room next door, knocked on the door,

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"Excuse me? Can you help me tie my tie?"

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And the guy said, "Sure. Lie down on the bed."

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So...my grandfather wanted to have the tie on,

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wasn't sure what he was getting into, so he's said

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to have lain on the bed and the guy tied a perfect bow tie knot and,

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quite reasonably, my grandfather said,

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"Thank you. Why'd I have to lie down on the bed?"

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The guy said, "I'm an undertaker."

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(audience laughs)

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It's the only way I know how to do it.

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Now that story was presented to me as a true story.

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It may or may not be. But it gives you something to think about.

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And it's certainly something to remember.

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So, here tonight, we're gonna have two stories

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and we can compare Mr. Ham's story to the story

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from what I will call the outside, from mainstream science.

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The question tonight is: Does Ken Ham's Creation Model hold up?

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Is it "viable"?

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So let me ask you: what would you be doing if you weren't here tonight?

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That's right, you'd be home watching CSI.

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CSI Petersburg. Is that coming--I think it's coming.

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And on CSI, there is no distinction made between

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historical science and observational science.

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These are construct unique to Mr. Ham.

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We don't normally have these anywhere in the world except here.

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Natural laws that applied in the past apply now.

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That's why they're natural laws. That's why we embrace them.

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That's how we made all these discoveries

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that enabled all this remarkable technology.

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So CSI is a fictional show, but it's based absolutely

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on real people doing real work.

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When you go to a crime scene and find evidence,

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you have clues about the past. And you trust those clues

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and you embrace them and you move forward to convict somebody.

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Mr. Ham and his followers have this remarkable view

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of a worldwide flood that somehow influenced everything that we observe in nature.

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A 500 foot wooden boat, eight zookeepers for 14,000 individual animals,

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every land, plant in the world under water for a full year?

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I ask us all: is that really reasonable?

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You'll hear a lot about the Grand Canyon, I imagine, also,

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which is a remarkable place and it has fossils.

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And the fossils in the Grand Canyon are found in layers.

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There's not a single place in the Grand Canyon

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where the fossils of one type of animal cross over

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into the fossils of another. In other words,

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when there was a big flood on the earth, you would expect

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drowning animals to swim up to a higher level.

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Not any one of them did. Not a single one.

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If you could find evidence of that, my friends, you could change the world.

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Now, I just wanna remind us all:

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there are billions of people in the world who are deeply religious,

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who get enriched, who have a wonderful sense of community from their religion.

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They worship together, they eat together, they live

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in their communities and enjoy each others company. Billions of people.

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But these same people do not embrace the extraordinary view

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that the earth is somehow only 6,000 years old. That is unique.

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And here's my concern: what keeps the United States ahead,

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what makes the United States a world leader, is our technology,

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our new ideas, our innovations. If we continue to eschew science,

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eschew the process and try to divide science

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into observational science and historic science,

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we are not gonna move forward. We will not embrace natural laws.

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We will not make discoveries. We will not invent and innovate and stay ahead.

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So if you ask me if Ken Ham's Creation model is viable, I say no.

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It is absolutely not viable. So stay with us over the next period

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and you can compare my evidence to his. Thank you all very much.

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(audience applauds)