The last time Ken Ham was in the spotlight was when Bill Maher interviewed him for his movie "Religulous," where Maher he spoke to people around the country who believed in the Bible and God. On Tuesday, he will take on the beloved Bill Nye as they debate creationism.
In a letter posted on CNN, Ham wrote that "evolution-creation issues continue to be in the news," making it a relevant time for such a debate, especially due to the "thousands of scientists and engineers worldwide who have earned doctorates and are creationists."
According to Ham, he has met "several scientists and engineers who accept the book of Genesis as historical and reject Darwinian evolution," adding that their belief in the bible "had nothing to do with their work on the Hubble Space Telescope."
Ham, who created a museum "to answer the questions of the skeptics who question the bibles history," says he is looking forward to the "opportunity to help counter the general censorship against creationists' view of origins," according to his letter.
"While we are not in favor of mandating that creation be taught in public school science classes, we believe that, at the very least, instructors should have the academic freedom to bring up the problems with evolution," Ham wrote in the letter published by CNN.
Ham also acknowledges neither him or Nye are Ph.D. scientists, which somewhat renders the debate inconclusive on which is correct, but will likely make for a very interesting conversation.
"He and I both recognize the wonderful benefits that observational, operational science has brought us, from cellphones to space shuttles," Ham wrote in the letter. "But operational science, which builds today's technology, is not the same as presenting beliefs about the past, which cannot be tested in the laboratory."
Basically, Ham wants to students to be given both options to learn, so they can choose for themselves which to believe, stating that "students are presented only with the evolutionary belief system in their schools"
"Let our young people understand science correctly and hear both sides of the origins issue and then evaluate them," Ham wrote. He added that naturalism is being force-fed to students, and instead, they should "be taught the real nature of science, including its limitations."
Ham goes in further and finished his letter by stating those who believe in evolution must also believe the world "was created by accident" which leads to an unpurposeful life.
"I have decided to accept an authority - our infallible creator and his word, the Bible - over the words of fallible humans."
