'Science Guy' Bill Nye Defends Evolution vs. Creationism

[Stonepounder]

29. OK, I'm getting just a little tired of stereotypes!

I live in Kentucky. I am not an uneducated, I am a progressive, I am a woman's libber, I am not a racist, I am pro-choice, I have always thought that who you wanted to spend your life with was a personal choice and didn't have any bearing on who I wanted to spend my life with. I marched in Civil Rights parades and was at Ohio State demonstrating against the war in Viet Nam when Kent State occured. Boone County (the county where the Creationism Museum is located) actually has more registered Democrats than Republicans.

Are there uneducated, in-bred cretins straight out of Deliverance in Kentucky? Sure there are. But I've run into bigots and idiots in Los Angeles and San Francisco too. Also, even though both US Senators are Republican, bear in mind that the Governor, Lt. Governor, Attorney General, and Secretary of State are Democrats, and the Sec State is a nice lady named Allison Lundergan Grimes, who is actually either tied or leading in the polls in her bid to unseat Mitch McConnell.

Am I embarrassed to live within 10 miles of the Creation Museum? Yeah. But I have seen some pretty incredible acts of kindness by folk that y'all would probably cross the street to avoid. Like the two 'good ole boys' who actually did look like something out of Deliverance, who saw a woman lose control of her car on an icy road a couple of years ago. She and her car ended up almost totally submerged in the river. The woman was trapped in her car. One of the waded in to the freezing water and held the woman's head out of the water while the other ran for a phone to dial 911 and then joined his buddy in the river and waited for the paramedics to arrive. The woman survived and all three were treated at the scene for hypothermia. The two guys appeared somewhat confused at the fuss the news reporters were making over them. The quote I remember was when one of them said, "Well what else were we supposed to do? Someone was in trouble." Or the time that my son-in-law was involved in a traffic accident, leaving his car needing to be towed. The tow truck driver was a snaggle-toothed old fellow with a 3-day stubble and greasy overalls. We had arrived on the scene by the time the tow truck arrived and the paramedics had decided to take our 18-month old granddaughter to the hospital 'just to be on the safe side', leaving us with our 3-year-old grandson. The tow-truck driver quickly realized that Zack was pretty shook up by everything that had just happened. He had Zack come over to the truck and work the levers to get the car up on the flatbed. By the time he was finished Zack was so stoked by getting to help he was back to being his old self.

So lets quit with the stereotypes and the Kentucky bashing. (Oh, and by the way, I live in a mobile home, so we can quit with the 'trailer trash' references as well.