The Most Important Parts of the Evolution Debate With Bill Nye

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Colin Daileda
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The Most Important Parts of the Evolution Debate With Bill Nye
Bill Nye and Ken Ham debate over whether creationism is a valid scientific theory at Kentucky's Creation Museum on Feb. 4, 2014. Credit: Mashable

Evolution and creationism duked it out on Tuesday at the Creation Museum in Kentucky in front of a packed auditorium and hundreds of thousands of viewers at home.

The two-and-a-half-hour debate pitted Bill Nye, a science educator and TV personality, against Ken Ham, president of the creationism organization Answers in Genesis and head of the Creation Museum.

Nye and Ham argued over whether creationism is a viable scientific model for explaining the origins of Earth, and while they mostly stayed on topic, both repeated their points so many times that it was easy to get lost. Instead of watching all 150 minutes of the debate, check out Mashable's recap, above, which boils down the main points in just under four minutes.

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