Bill Nye and Ken Ham Debated Creationism—But Did They Change Anyone's Mind?

Creation Museum debate says more about politics than science―just like always.

There is nothing new under the sun, the Bible tells us. And we all know that there's no business like show business.

Such debates have a storied history, kicked off by the 1859 publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, which advanced the idea that new species evolve through the process of natural selection.

While such faceoffs continue to make news, what may be most remarkable about them is how little the two sides have moved in the last 150 years.

"They don't seem to change anything, do they?" says philosophy of science expert Michael Weisberg of the University of Pennsylvania, who studies how the public understands science.

And it turns out that we have some pretty good

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