Teaching creationism makes kids less intelligent, says Bill Nye

In an interview with Newsmax, he explained that you have to be quite deluded to think that the Earth is only 6,000 years old.

"They will not have this fundamental idea that you can question things," he said of these kids. They will not be able to "think critically, use skeptical thought to learn about nature."

America is perhaps the only place in the world where a sportswriter can get into a creationism-evolution debate with a retired sportsman and find that his employer, ESPN, suspends him from Twitter.