“To assume the truth, to assume the answer before you ask the question, leads you nowhere.”

Question: What, if anything, would ever change your mind?

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“Well, the answer to that question is, I'm a Christian, and as a Christian, I can't prove it to you, but God has definitely shown me very clearly through his word, and he has shown himself in the person of Jesus Christ, that the bible is the word of God.

I admit that that is where I start from I can challenge people that you can go and test that, you can make predictions based on that, you can check the prophecies in the bible, you can check the statements in Genesis. I did a little bit of that tonight.

I can't ultimately prove that to you, all I can do is to say to someone look, if the bible really is what it claims to be, if it really is the word of God, (and that’s what it claims), then, check it out and the bible says that if you come to god believing that he is, he will reveal himself to you and you will know.

As Christians we can say we know, and so, as far as the word of God is concerned...

No, no one is ever going to convince me that the word of god is not true.”

-- Ken Ham

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“We would need just one piece of evidence.

We would need the fossil that s swam from one layer to another, we would need evidence that the universe is not expanding, we would need evidence that the stars appear to be far away but are not.

We would need evidence that rock layers could somehow form in just 4000 years as opposed to just the extraordinary amount, we would need evidence that somehow you can reset atomic clocks and keep neutrons from becoming protons.

Bring on any of those things and you would change me immediately.”

-- Bill Nye

Ken Ham...

uses the bible to justify the claims of the bible

presupposes it all in the first place

admits you must already believe it in order to be convinced of it

admits it is otherwise unprovable

in spite of all of this, proudly asserts that he could never, ever, ever change his mind, no matter how much evidence, no matter how compelling a case is made (unreasonable, by definition)

Bill Nye...

requires evidence

Translation: ‘When I see something bad, I assume the Devil did it.”

If you measure the IQ of 10,000 people and then sort and average their IQs by race, you’re going to find disparity. If you sort and average their IQs by hair color, you’re going to find disparity. If you sort and average their IQs by shoe size, nipple size, number of jobs they’ve had, the number of cars they’ve owned, or the number of bottles in their refrigerator, you’re going to find disparity. Some number of refrigerator bottles is going to correlate to a higher average IQ than others. It just is.

Now do the same again for any other attribute. Do income by number of refrigerator bottles, or height by the number of cars owned. One group is going to have the highest average income, or be the tallest on average.

Disparity is not in itself a problem, because all humans are different. Which is why any and every expectation of blanket “equity” is not just unrealistic but nonsensical. We’ve been misled by activists that any amount of disparity is evidence of unfairness (except the NBA).

Kendi doesn’t understand this, because his “field” (if we must), is not based on evidence or an actual understanding of statistics or society. That’s not by accident either. It’s the same reason Xians cite, but avoid understanding, the laws of thermodynamics - to do so gets in the way of the theology and mythology. Kendi is not a scholar, he’s a storyteller.

That’s why univariate takes are as much quack scholarship as the worst Xian apologetics. He’s basically Lee Strobel, a Xian who pretended to set out to figure out if there was a god, and - surprise, surprise - “found” the same god he already believed in.

I have a multi-part documentary that proves Anakin would bring balance to the Force, and a multi-volume research study that proves Harry Potter is the Chosen One.

Social constructivism is a social construct.

Like how a Xian can only prove the bible using the bible.

Xian logic is circular.