I think Nye made the point that children being taught that things which are clearly not science is science is bad for science education.   

Creation has a lot to do with observing in today's world, if human beings are doing the observing. How does one reconcile observing a galaxy more than 6,000 light years away?

Would those gentlemen have got the same level of education at an institution that refused to recognize evolutionary biology as a science?

How can you teach kids the scientific method and refuse to let them apply it to biology, to Astronomy, to geology?