Glenn Beck says Bill Nye’s fight against creationism is like the Catholic Church’s war on Galileo

[Julius Skrrvin]

Glenn Beck says Bill Nye’s fight against creationism is like the Catholic Church’s war on Galileo
The right-wing pundit says proponents of teaching creationism in school will be vindicated by history VIDEO

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  On Tuesday night, Glenn Beck apologized for using divisive rhetoric and helping to “tear the country apart” while he was a host at Fox News.
  
  In a related story, on Tuesday night, Glenn Beck compared Bill Nye the Science Guy to the people who silenced and oppressed Galileo, one of history’s most celebrated thinkers.
  
  Beck’s attack on Nye came in the context of a larger argument about how “you can’t force things on the people.” Despite ample evidence in human history showing that governments indeed can — and generally do — “force things” on “the people,” Beck claimed history will show that anyone who tries to “force things on the people” will be judged negatively by future generations.
  
  Beck pointed to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (who recently said right-wing extremists have no place in New York) and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan (who once characterized critics of the Common Core State Standards as “white suburban moms”) as examples of people who will one day find their “children or grand-children” asking them how they could have been so wrong.
  
  Cuomo and Duncan are Democrats, so it’s not surprising to hear Beck sentence them to everlasting scorn. More unexpected was Beck’s next villain: Bill Nye the Science Guy. Nye’s transgression? As Beck described it, Nye is grievously wrong for arguing that “teaching creationism is just dangerous and not appropriate for children.” Beck then played a clip of video in which Nye tells creationists that it’s “fine” if they want to live in an alternate reality, but begs them, “Don’t make your kids do it.”
  
  “How’s he going to look?” Beck asks. “Is he going to look … uh … like the people who threw Galileo out?”
  

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

 

[DEAD7]

 

[No_bammer_weed]

This is some Onion sht...hes attempting to do to Nye, what the church did to Galileo , and somehow he is making a case for the opposite. I would take shots, but do you have any idea how much Glen Beck is worth, and how much his idiot followers are contributing to his bank acct?

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

Thought you'd appreciate a little irony

 

[boskey]

This is some Onion sht...hes attempting to do to Nye, what the church did to Galileo , and somehow he is making a case for the opposite. I would take shots, but do you have any idea how much Glen Beck is worth, and how much his idiot followers are contributing to his bank acct?

Martin Luther King was a conservative

 

[DEAD7]

Glen Beck will literally say anything, I dont know how he still draws an audience.

 

[Calmye]

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Its funny how TV causes these dudes to just go off the rails.

Beck was apparently pretty sane BEFORE Fox News and after Fox dude just comes down to earth again.

Hilarious.

 

[the cac mamba]

 

[Fervid]

That doesn't even make any sense.

 

[Jhoon]

par for course from the conservatives. if they werent consistent, I would think this was all an act. conservatism, like mathematics, is its own language. im sure some bright kid will eventually figure out the equation to these a$$holes.

 

[Jhoon]

That doesn't even make any sense.

should it make sense? where in the constitution does it say it should make sense? making sense is what libtards do. I am, as a proud american, believe that my rights are being subperverted by nancy policia and her friends.

 

[TLOL is back]

Its funny how TV causes these dudes to just go off the rails.

Beck was apparently pretty sane BEFORE Fox News and after Fox dude just comes down to earth again.

Hilarious.

It is basic Skinner-ian positive reinforcement. They get attention for their lunacy, and like druggies unconsciously (sometimes consciously) keep seeking the attention. You kind of see this with twitter too. Activists just get more and more crazy with every tweet, to the point where they're all the way on one end of their side of the political spectrum.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

That doesn't even make any sense.

I was watching the end of the clip waiting for the punch line or for dude to bring it home and the clip just ended