Of course, Ham is all for science too. And "critical thinking." He showed the PhD Creationist inventor of the MRI (you read that right) exclaiming that nothing in "creation science" is "inconsistent with" experimentation and technological innovation. And the PhD who invented a key element of the Hubble Space Telescope said that his faith in Creationism and a young Earth had not hindered his advanced design work in any way.

Because Creationism has nothing to do with engineering or observing anything in today's world. Teaching Creationism would have no effect on American technological progress, a point that Nye seemingly hadn't thought out.

In my last post, I should have specified "very well funded people."