1. Bill Nye, Are you influencing the minds of children in a positive way?
I certainly feel like he is. Teaching and advocating science and the scientific method to kids in the younger years when it really becomes ingrained in their minds is really important to further our understanding of the world as a whole.
2. Are you scared of a Divine Creator?
I don't know why I would be. The lack of a belief in one doesn't imply fear, does it?
3. Is it completely illogical that the earth was created mature? i.e., trees created with rings... Adam created as an adult...
Well. Yes. Building from a simpler origin point in general is more in line with what we have been able to observe.
4. Does not the second law of thermodynamics disprove evolution?
This would be implying that the earth a closed system and thus subject to entropy, but the planet is being powered by the sun, so that law doesn't apply here.
5. How do you explain a sunset if their [sic] is no God?
The rotation of the earth and the apparent position of the sun.
6. If the Big Bang Theory is true and taught as science along with evolution, why do the laws of thermodynamics debunk said theories?
As for evolution, that's answered in #4, but for the big bang, that has a lot to do with the mechanics of how the universe expanded after the big bang. I hate to admit that I'm just not smart enough to answer this part. Haha.
7. What about noetics?
What about it? Noetics is a philosophical idea about conciousness.
8. Where do you derive _objective_ meaning in life?
Uh, personal prerogatives? I don't know what this has to do with evolution.
9. If God did not create everything, how did the first single-celled organism originate? By chance?
More or less, to be honest. Simple molecules are known to form basically by chance, and with the right input of energy and the right environment, those can form larger molecules and than amino acid chains and then eventually simple life, over the course of long enough time.
10. I believe in the Big Bang Theory... _God_ said it and BANG it happened!
'Kay. Given my understanding of what happens "within" a singularity, probability breaks down completely, so we just can't know or predict what happened before or outside of the singularity that became the big bang, so it's not really something that can reliably gotten into.
11. Why do evolutionists/secularists/humanists/non-God believing people reject the idea of their [sic] being a creator God but embrace the concept of intelligent design from aliens or other extra-terrestrial sources?
Do they/we do that? There are movies and History Channel specials about that kind of thing, but I wasn't aware that it was
12. There is no in between... the only one found has been Lucy and there are only a few pieces of the hundreds necessary for an "official proof."
There are hundreds if not thousands of "missing link" fossils in evidence. The reality of it is that there will never be "enough" evidence in this area to satisfy people that aren't going to be swayed by evidence in the first place.
13. Does metamorphosis help support evolution?
I'm not sure what this is asking. If the idea is that metamorphosis is too complex or fast to be an evolved-into process, that's basically a "God of the Gaps" fallacy at best.
14. If Evolution is a Theory (like creationism or the Bible), why then is Evolution taught as fact?
Firstly, creationism is an idea, not a theory. Secondly, the Bible is a book, again not a theory. Evolution is a theory, but this question assumes that a theory is on the same level as a mere hypothesis. Evolution is measurable and observable.
15. Because science by defintion is a "theory" -- not testable, observable, nor repeatable, why do you object to creationism or intelligent design being taught in school?
The very basis of science is the scientific method, meaning that everything under its purview is testable, observable, and repeatable. In contrast, creationism and intelligent design are mere ideas that cannot be measured in the same way. It would be simply incorrect to hold those ideas up to the same level as actual science that can stand up to scrutiny.
16. What mechanism has science discovered that evidences an _increase_ of genetic information seen in any genetic mutation or evolutionary process?
Is that a thing that happens?
17. What purpose do you think you are here for if you do not believe in Salvation?
That's really a personal question that doesn't have anything to do with evolution.
18. Why have we found only 1 "Lucy" when we have found more than 1 of everything else?
There are something near a dozen specimens of the Lucy species. And we haven't found more than one of "everything else," surely.
19. Can you believe in "the big bang" without "faith?"
Absolutely. I can "believe" in it because there was measurable evidence to look at.
20. How can you look at the world and not believe that someone created/thought of it? It's _Amazing_!!!
Because there's evidence to show that all this cool stuff came about some other way, and that doesn't detract from how amazing it is.
21. Relating to the big bang theory... Where did the exploding star come from?
Besides that it wasn't an exploding star, like I said, it's difficult to answer, but that doesn't mean that it can't be or that it defaults to a higher power did it.
22. If we came from monkeys then why are there still monkeys?
Well, we didn't evolve from monkeys. We came from a common ancestor. Evolution isn't a straight line where one thing slowly changes into another. It's just not that simple.
