bill nye will face-off against ken hamm owner the creation museum., nye posted a video blog argue, that teaching creationism, the belief that humans have always existed in their present form was harmful for children. >> if you want to deny evolution and live in your -- in your world that is completely inning consistent with everything we observe in the universe, that's fine, but don't make your kids do it, because we need them. >> reporter: that video racked up nearly 6 million views. ken hamm fired back and challenged nig nye to a public debate. >> bill nye has an agenda to teach children not to believe in god. to teach them they are a result of evolutionary processes that they came from slime over millions of years, in fact, bill nye doesn't really understand science. >> reporter: evolution is overwhelmingly accepted in scientific circles, that same level of certainty does not exist in the american public. a few research center poll conducted in december showed 60% of americans believe in evolution. and 30% support creationism. the poll found white

ken hamm is the president and co-founder of answers in genesis. >> everyone's entitled to their opinion>> evolution isn't an opinion. it's fact. ? and that is your opinion. >> you can't observe the age of the earth. >> they're wildening you with not science. >> pat robertson is dismissing ken hamm's creation story. >> we have skeletons and dinosaurs that go about 65 million years. to say that it all came about in 6,000 years is just nonsense spp. >> that doesn't make sense. >> god's in charge of all this, but we've got to be realistic. let's not make a joke of ourselves. >> and today's top trender, sandra dee. >> politics in your future? >> maybe someday. >> sandra fluke is running for office hoping to land a senate seat in sacramento. >> sandra fluke turns her sights towards a state senate seat. >> fluke had been considering running for congress in this district. she said, "i'm committed to continuing that fight in sack." >> i've seen the impact that an individual state senator can have on setting the conversation. >> joining us tonight is sandra fluke, social justice attorney and cand

science educator bill nye and ken hamm, the founder of the creation museum sounded off at a debate in petersburg, kentucky. >> in the bible on the fourth day of creation. oh, he made the stars so much. so much so like oh, by the way, i made the stars. just to show us he's an all powerful guy. >> to you when it says he invented the stars also, that's satisfying. you're done. oh, good, okay. to me when i look at the night sky, i want to know what's out there. i'm driven. i want to know if what's out there is any part of me. >> on another topic, hamm says he believes that dinosaurs and humans coexisted. bill nye countered saying there is no proof of that at all. those guys get along, apparently. >>> howard is up next with the forecast. changes keep coming. >> yeah, mike. still kind of raw and damp. hoping for a peek of sun or two this afternoon as we get temperatures into the 40s. hey, i want to tell you, we had some rain. we had some ice. a real variation of conditions. our chief photographer comes from cantonsville, maryland to our studio. i want to share a time lapse of the ride in wi

ken hamm believes the earth is 6,000 years old and that the bible tells the factual account, but nye says he and the science community believe the big bang theory created the earth billions of years ago sparking evolution. >> the bottom line is that as a christian, i have a foundation that as a christian i would ask bill a question. what would change your mind? you said even if you came to faith you would never give up believing in billions of years. >> we would need one piece of evidence. we would need the fossil that 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 they're not. >>> let's go ahead and get the latest in sports from my good friend richard lui. i'm not going to ask you that one. we'll stick to sports. >> they are interesting characters, no doubt, veronica. >> that's true. >> >>> i have a new development. dolphins ritchie incognito's suspension lifted tuesday. he allegedly bullied his teammate. now incognito saying this in a tweet, i support jonathan martin 100% ret

the founder of creation museum ken hamm taking on bill nye the science guy. was suppose to have taken place is more important than what i see with my own eyes. >> we do see a collapse of christian morality because generations of kids are being taught the bible can't be trusted. >> reporter: at one point they argued over whether noah could have realistically built the ark. >> to me it's just not reasonbling. >> why would you say it's unskilled? i didn't meet noah and neither did you. >> reporter: the national center for science education told cbs news it finds such debates counterproductive in part because, quote, for a scientist to engage in a formal on-stage key bait with a creation nift is to legit ma tiez the creation nift's position. >> please, you don't want to raise scientists who don't understand how we understand our place in cosmos, our place in space, we need to innovate to keep the united states where it is in the world. >> reporter: four states have anti-evolution laws on the books and four others are considering such measures. a proposed bill wou

the science guy, bill nye, working with darwin's origin of species and answers and genesis founder ken hamm with the bible debate wednesday night at 8 eastern on c-span. >> next, a look at public/private partnerships and how they help u.s. foreign policy. with rajiv shah, he's the head of the u.s. agency for international development. he's joined by oregon representative earl blumenauer who serves on the house ways and means committee. from the wilson center in washington, d.c., this is an hour. >> good afternoon. happy valentine's day. and welcome to the wilson center. i'm jane harman, the president and ceo of the wilson center. i'm a recovering politician, and if you're noticing these bicycles, they are gifts from our visiting politician, earl blumenauer, who heads the congressional bike caucus. and all of you and all of us think that this is a marvelous thing to support. so, earl, thanks for the gifts. and to all of you, an extra brownie point for braving the weather to show up. i was predicting we would have ten people in the audience. it shows how valuable my predictions are. but it al

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old as time, evolution or creationism, well, bill nye is getting into this, the science guy and ken hammo duke it out tonight and msnbc's adam is going to be there for the blow by blow. the genesis as we both know for this debate was sparked by a u tube video nye had done where he said the concept of creationism should not be taught to children. >> i say to the grown-ups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your -- in your world that's completely inconsistent with everything we observe in the universe, that's fine. but don't make your kids do it because we need them. we need scientific literal voters and taxpayers for the future. >> that video has gotten 6 million hits on youtube. some folks might be thinking despite the obvious conflict that nye is trying to create here in this debate, is there really a debate about it? >> well, that's one of the things that the creationists are excited about. any time you put evolution and creationism on the same level they feel they are winning. this debate they are putting on the museum is producing at a loss. they claim they are not making mon

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ye and ken hamm debate wednesday night. next, thomas friedman talks about national security and freedom of the press. the three temple at surprise d.nner was interviewed by cohosted by george washington university and harvard university. >> from the national press club in washington dc. [applause] hello and welcome to the national press club. a conversation with new york times columnist thomas friedman about freedom. over the past 20 years i have had the pleasure and privilege of speaking with some of the best herbalists in the country. some have even won a pulitzer prize, which is the highest compliment in the newspaper world. none, except our guest tonight, has ever won three pulitzer prizes, two for his reporting from the middle east and one for his commentary. tom friedman joined the times in 1981. he was bureau chief in beirut and jerusalem. he has been the chief diplomatic correspondent and chief white house correspondent. columniste became a -- a foreign affairs columnist for the paper. he does that twice a week. and

ken hamm, -- nye and debate tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span.incehas been five years the passage of president obama's economic stimulus package, a discussion about that from this morning's "washington journal.". hirsh here to talk about the stimulus bill five years later. the white house released a report over the weekend. looking at the impact of it, what did they say the impact of the stimulus has been? were extremely positive, both in terms of how many jobs were created or saved. they say about 1.6 million jobs throughrom the start mid-2011. percent to three percent growth to gdp. they claim it did not add much to the long-term debt because of added growth to the economy. it was quite a rosy picture for what has been from the start and what became particularly the 2012 campaign a real lightning rod of controversy. host: what did they promise when the stimulus was signed into law, and what are they promising? guest: they are in line with most estimates. there was a survey by the boothsity of chicago school of business in 2012, i believe it was

that racked up 6 million views, prompting ken hamm to challenge nye to this debate. he used nature. >> there's a famous tree in sweden, 9,550 years old. how could these trees be there if there was an enormous flood just 4,000 years ago? >> he stuck to a distinct between different types of science. >> you can't observe the age of the earth. there's a big difference between historical science talking about the past and observational science talking about the present. >> if we continue to es which is chew science and try for it to be a historical science, we will not embrace natural laws and make discoveries. >> while evolution is overwhelmingly accepted in scientific circles, the same certainty doesn't exist in the american public. 60% of americans believe in evolution, and 30% support creationism. the poll found white evangelical conservatives were most likely to support that belief. >> just coming together and trying to reconcile and it's very encouraging. i think it will compel many more people to explore science and what they really believe and why we are here on e

the science guy, bill nye, working with darwin's origin of species and answers and genesis founder ken hamm with the bible debate wednesday night at 8 eastern on c-span. >> up next op booktv, "after words" with guest host zaheer ali with columbia university. this week nicholas johnson and his book, "negroes and the gun." in it, the professor discusses the tradition of african-americans using firearms to defend their families and communities, a tradition that dates back to reconstruction. he argues that the nonviolence of the civil rights era helped bury this fact of black history. this program is about an hour. >> host: so negroes and guns strikes we as an important intervention in three ways. one, in the historiography of the blacking freedom movement. over the years there have been increasingly new works that revise the way we understand the role of violence relateed to the, you