{"id":3276,"date":"2014-02-17T21:21:57","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T04:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3276"},"modified":"2014-02-17T21:21:57","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T04:21:57","slug":"sermon-on-the-pterodactyl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3276","title":{"rendered":"Sermon On The Pterodactyl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, Bill Nye debated creationist Ken Ham at the Creation Museum on creationism vs. evolution. We here at the Bucket are fans of Bill Nye and we applaud his efforts to teach science, logic and reason to the American people, who in general are <a title=\"Basic Science Knowledge Poor In US; 25% Don\u2019t Know Earth Orbits Sun\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thealmagest.com\/basic-science-knowledge-poor-us-25-dont-know-earth-orbits-sun\/10233\" target=\"_blank\">severely lacking in scientific understanding<\/a> (<a title=\"Poll: Nearly 8 in 10 Americans believe in angels\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/poll-nearly-8-in-10-americans-believe-in-angels\/\" target=\"_blank\">80% Americans actually believe in angels<\/a>). Now, we&#8217;re really impressed with him because\u00a0 <a title=\"92 percent say Bill Nye won in Christian Today poll \" href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/02\/06\/92_percent_say_bill_nye_won_in_christian_today_poll\/\" target=\"_blank\">92% of respondents in a Christian Today poll concluded that Nye won the debate<\/a>. Even conservative christian wing nut poster boy <a title=\" Pat Robertson implores creationist Ken Ham to shut up: \u2018Let\u2019s not make a joke of ourselves\u2019\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2014\/02\/05\/pat-robertson-implores-creationist-ken-ham-to-shut-up-lets-not-make-a-joke-of-ourselves\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pat Robertson said that Ken Ham should just shut up<\/a>. So kudos to Bill Nye for having the patience to debate a narrow minded doofus, because if it were any of us here at the Bucket, we would have just said &#8216;screw it&#8217; and thumped Ham over the head with an oversized cartoon mallet.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3280\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3280\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=3280\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3280\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3280\" title=\"nyehamcreationism\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/nyehamcreationism.jpg\" alt=\"Ken Ham explains how Jesus rode a pterodactyl and Peter rode Dino to an incredulous Bill Nye.\" width=\"500\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/nyehamcreationism.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/nyehamcreationism-300x249.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3280\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Nye realizes the futility in trying to explain scientific principles, reasoning and logic to a narrow minded clown.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, Bill Nye debated creationist Ken Ham at the Creation Museum on creationism vs. evolution. We here at the Bucket are fans of Bill Nye and we applaud his efforts to teach science, logic and reason to the American people, who in general are severely lacking in scientific understanding (80% Americans actually believe in angels). &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3276\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sermon On The Pterodactyl&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,8,68,3],"tags":[754,860,865,252,69,22,866,99,402,286,862,100,9,75,859,21,864,98,863,861,188,19,730],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3276"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3288,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276\/revisions\/3288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}