Prominent Christian apologist, Ken Ham, has spoken out against a recent emoji evolution video created by "the Science Guy" Bill Nye, labelling it as "just another fairy tale".
The short video, explaining evolution without the presence of a Creator, currently has over a million hits.
Ham, an Australian young Earth creationist, fundamentalist, and president of Answers in Genesis (AiG), found the video lacking sense. He encourages parents to watch it with their children simply to show the kids how much of a "fairy tale" Nye's theory is.
Ham, in his blog post, finds Nye's claims preposterous, including Nye's statement such as "These molecules hooked together and accidentally found ways to reproduce themselves the same way crystals reproduce if you leave them alone for a while."
The creationist apologist Ham advises parents, "Now at this stage, you need to explain to your children that the formation of crystals has nothing to do with the origin of life—absolutely nothing!"
To counter Nye's claims, Ham encourages people to read Answers in Genesis (AiG) passages, especially to help parents explain creation from the Biblical point of view.
Here is an excerpt from an AiG article on the subject:
"Answers in Genesis molecular geneticist Dr. Georgia Purdom has observed . . . "Once again we see scientists claiming that matter plus energy equals the first steps towards life. . . . But all the matter, energy, and 'spinning crystals' in the universe won't cause life to come from non-life. Life requires information and thus, an information giver. The only one capable of creating and encoding this information is the Creator God."
Ham goes on criticizing Nye's theories on evolution involving imperfections as a way for life to evolve to more complicated beings. He also denounces Nye's claim that the key to evolution is time. Nye stated in the video that "The key to this is time, time, time, time . . . "
Ham wrote that for people to believe in Nye's claim that imperfections lead to complicated life, he would have to convince people that billions of years are involved in the creation process.
Ham encourages parents to read Genesis chapters 1 and 2 to their children and to even use Nye's new video as an educational tool by teaching the youth the pitfalls of "the fairy tale of evolution."