Bill Nye, The Anti-Science Guy
A pro-murder website has a link to a video by Bill Nye (“the science guy”) and says about the video, “Bill Nye debunks anti-abortionist logic with science in passionate plea to lawmakers”.1 Since Bill Nye comes nowhere close to debunking anti-abortionist logic with science, that’s a frightening statement for two reasons. One is that Bill Nye, who is supposedly using science, is completely against what science says. The second is that people like the author of that sentence don’t realize that Bill Nye was terribly wrong and are deceived by what he said.
Nye began by saying, “Many, many, many, many more hundreds of eggs are fertilized than become humans. Eggs get fertilized, and by that I mean sperm get accepted by ova a lot. But that’s not all you need. You have to attach to the uterine wall, the inside of a womb, a woman’s womb.” Science does not agree with that at all. Nye contradicts what science says. Dr. Jerome LeJeune, who was a pediatrician and professor of genetics in Paris, testified before a Congressional subcommittee, saying, “after fertilization has taken place a new human being has come into being” and that this “is no longer a matter of taste or opinion,” and “not a metaphysical contention, it is plain experimental evidence…. Each individual has a very neat beginning, at conception.”2 In my book (Murdercrats: Millions of Abortion Murderers, available at Amazon), I quoted nearly 50 scientists who all said the same thing, saying there is no longer any debate when a human being comes into existence. Attaching itself to the uterine wall is simply one of the first acts of this new human being to provide itself with nutrition that it may continue to live and grow.
After his first statement, Nye then goes into a philosophical discussion. If it’s true that a human life begins at conception, he poses, then who are you going to sue or imprison – every woman who has had a fertilized egg pass through her? He totally fails to understand the issue, perhaps even deliberately creating a straw man argument that he can attack rather than addressing the real issue. The issue is first, that a human being comes into existence at conception and, second, that the deliberate killing of that living human being is murder. The issue is not about what happens as a result of nature, when a fertilized egg (a human being) fails to attach to the uterine wall and doesn’t survive. We don’t charge anyone with murder when they’re struck by lightning and killed. Duh! Nye fails miserably at both science and philosophy.
Nye then says that it’s just a reflection of a deep lack of scientific understanding. I just shook my head when I first read that. Nye is the one who was wrong scientifically in his first statement and all else he said in between was philosophy and he failed at that, too.
Next, Nye says that laws against abortion are written because of a book written 5000 years ago. So, he’s saying that men are against abortion as murder because of the Bible. That’s simply an attempt to poison the well, to change the discussion. I’ve not used, either in my book or on this website or in any discussion with abortion murder advocates, a single biblical argument that abortion is murder unless some religious person has made an argument that I’ve addressed. Every single argument I’ve made is what SCIENCE says.
Nye talks as if males ought to be left out of this matter, a fairly common attempt by pro-murder advocates. But, it’s only when men are AGAINST abortion that the murder crowd says men should stay out of it. If a man is for abortion he won’t be told to shut up at all!!! After all Bill Nye is supposedly a man and this website is touting his male support of murder. So, pro-murder advocates are both sexist and hypocritical in this matter and Nye simply joined in that hypocrisy.
Nye continued, saying, “Nobody likes abortion, but you can’t tell somebody what to do.” He’s wrong. Over and over again, he’s wrong. Nobody likes rape and we pass laws against rape and we are thus telling people what to do (what not to do). We tell people what to do as we give them speed limits and stop signs and a deadline for filing taxes, etc. Nye is simply as wrong as he can be.
Nye then says, “She (the pregnant woman) has rights over this.” Sorry, Nye, but no one has the right to murder another human being. Now, let’s go back to Nye’s first blunder when his first statement was wrong scientifically. He said that it took more than conception to make a human being, that the zygote had to attach to the uterine wall and he left it at that. All right, by his own definition, every abortion performed in a clinic is murder because they are all performed after that attachment. This is about the worst video I’ve ever seen that purported to answer pro-life arguments and what I’ve addressed so far is only about half.
Nye said, “It’s very frustrating. You wouldn’t know how big a human egg was if it weren’t for microscopes, if it weren’t for scientists, medical researchers looking diligently. You wouldn’t know the process. You wouldn’t have that shot, the famous shot or shots where the sperm are bumping up against the egg. You wouldn’t have that without science. So then to claim that you know the next step when you obviously don’t is trouble. Let me do that again. Let me just pull back. At some point we have to respect the facts.” I scratched my head when I read that. It appears he’s saying we owe all we know about this to science as if pro-life people have abandoned science and science is on Bill Nye’s side. It’s not. He puts a human being coming into existence at implantation while science puts it at conception. Dr. Joseph DeCook, who was the executive director of the American Association of Pro-life Obstetricians and Gynecologists said, “There’s no question at all when human life begins. When the two sets of chromosomes get together, you have a complete individual. It’s the same as you and I but less developed.” He distinguished between pregnancy, when the embryo is implanted on the uterine wall, and the beginning of human life. He said, “But we’re not talking about pregnancy. The question you have to focus on, is when does meaningful, valuable human life begin? That’s with the union of the two sets of chromosome. You have a complete human being that begins developing.”3 It’s extremely obvious why Nye is wrong. The embryo doesn’t change its nature by implantation on the uterine wall. Therefore, if it is a human being after implantation (per Nye’s insinuation), then it was a human being prior to implantation. This isn’t rocket science. It’s not that difficult.
The author of the article on the site ended, however, with these words, “…I suspect this conversation will be had many, many times for the foreseeable future. Meanwhile, I’m with Bill — facts and science, please.” I have to say that the author can be with Bill but when he’s with Bill he will not be with facts and with science. Bill Nye, in the matter of abortion murder, is the Anti-Science Guy.
Dennis Lange
1 http://www.femalista.com/bill-nye-debunks-anti-abortion-logic-with-
science/
2 http://www.epm.org/resources/2010/Mar/8/scientists-attest-life-
beginning-conception/Report, Subcommittee on Separation of Powers to
Senate Judiciary Committee S-158, 97th Congress, 1st Session April 23-
24, 1981.
3 http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/07/medical-views-when-does-
human-life-begin/