Bill Nye Boo'd In Texas For Saying The Moon Reflects The Sun
Bill Nye, the harmless children's edu-tainer known as "The Science Guy," managed to offend a select group of adults in Waco, Texas at a presentation, when he suggested that the moon does not emit light, but instead reflects the light of the sun.
As even most elementary-school graduates know, the moon reflects the light of the sun but produces no light of its own.
But don't tell that to the good people of Waco, who were "visibly angered by what some perceived as irreverence," according to the Waco Tribune.
Nye was in town to participate in McLennan Community College's Distinguished Lecture Series. He gave two lectures on such unfunny and adult topics as global warming, Mars exploration, and energy consumption.
But nothing got people as riled as when he brought up Genesis 1:16, which reads: "God made two great lights -- the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars."
The lesser light, he pointed out, is not a light at all, but only a reflector.
At this point, several people in the audience stormed out in fury. One woman yelled "We believe in God!" and left with three children, thus ensuring that people across America would read about the incident and conclude that Waco is as nutty as they'd always suspected.
This story originally appeared in the Waco Tribune, but the newspaper has mysteriously pulled its story from the online version, presumably to avoid further embarrassment.
http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/news/stories/2006/04/06/040620...
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Comment by Heather Spoonheim on May 1, 2012 at 3:58pm -
+1 Pope Paul!
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Comment by Forcythia on May 1, 2012 at 5:15pm -
While I agree with promoting scientific fact, if Bill Nye had just started talking about "the moon reflects the light of the sun" instead of debunking the Bible first, I bet no one would have noticed.
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Comment by Carroll D. Hanks on May 2, 2012 at 12:56am -
I am formally from Texas and I am so ashamed of some of the people there that are so ignorant about science.
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Comment by archaeopteryx on May 2, 2012 at 1:23am -
Being ignorant about science may be excusable Carroll, choosing to be ignorant, is not.
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Comment by Jesse VodkaPepper on May 2, 2012 at 5:14am
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Waco. No surprising. That's as Deep South as it gets in Texas.
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Comment by Judith van der Roos on May 2, 2012 at 8:39am -
And the reasons NOT to visit the USA just keep piling up :) ! Yet the same people who walked out use cellular phones, PCs etc, all manner of things developed by the very science they are walking out on there, did they leave all those gadgets at the door as they went I wonder !
Mind you my children like Bill, there are some of his (subtitled) DVDs available here.
Judith vd R.
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Comment by ApresMoiDeluge on May 3, 2012 at 9:09am -
well put@johnny
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Comment by ApresMoiDeluge on May 3, 2012 at 9:09am
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well put@johnny
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Comment by ApresMoiDeluge on May 3, 2012 at 9:09am
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well put@johnny
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Comment by Garrett Moffitt on May 4, 2012 at 11:21am
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This is no different then any other literal interpretation of the bible. No more crazy then thinking the world is 6K years old, or rapture. Most of these people don't even know their own theology, or biblical history. Just people wallowing in ignorance.
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