Bill Nye "The Science Guy" was booed in Waco, Texas for suggesting the Moon did not generate its own light, but reflected light from the sun.

Trouble started when the children's entertainer 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," and pointed out that the lesser light was actually a reflector.

At this point, several people in the audience stormed out, including woman with three small children who shouted, "We believe in God!" and left.

Nye was taking part in McLennan Community College's Distinguished Lecture Series, giving talks on global warming, Mars exploration, and energy consumption, but it was the moon thing that got them.

According to Morgan Matthew, "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."

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http://www.examiner.com/x-4112-Skept...-Just-shoot-me

:facepalm::rofl:

 

Nothing good has ever come from Waco.

 

this

 

Science rules!

 

holler

 

god its sad to think that people truly are that dense about things :shake:

 

apparently this is a story from 06 :doh: wned:

 

Bill Nye is the man. Fuck Waco

 

they were probably booing the fact that he was calling out religion, not so much that they disagree with the fact that the moon is a reflector.

and so much for his theories on global warming, huh? oh sorry, we're not supposed to talk about that absurdity.

 

I lived the first six months of my life in a suburb of Waco, TX (Hewitt). I then lived the next 11 years in Temple, TX, which is about 20 minutes away. :sad: