Bill Nye the Science Guy gets spied on

[pythonzzz]

The creepy Creation “Museum” in Kentucky is having fits that Bill Nye visited…their parking lot.

How do they know this? They videotaped and timed him.

Gee, really makes you wanna pack up the family and go visit - NOT!

PZ Myers has a report on his site: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/02/revealing_clientele.php

Bill! Bill! Bill! Science RULES!

[lavenderviolet]

Oh Bill, didn’t you learn your lesson about hanging out with crazy people? Nothing good can come of venturing into creationist territory.

[Nametag]

Pfft. Color me unimpressed – they’ve got security cameras, and somebody recognized a famous person. And considering the headline on Ham’s Facebook page – “Hey Bill, come inside next time” – it doesn’t look to me like anybody’s having fits except PZ Meyers. Granted, though, Ham doesn’t think too highly of either of them (well, he gives some props to Science Guy).

Based on the court filing, I’m going to go with “Wow! Science Guy’s a dick!”

[phouka]

However, within weeks of the nuptials, Tindall noted, the newlyweds learned that ‘our marriage license was returned as invalid.’

For what reasons can a marriage license be found invalid? Was Science Guy already married and hadn’t bothered to get divorced? Did the check for the license bounce?

[Yllaria]

@phouka

For what reasons can a marriage license be found invalid? Was Science Guy already married and hadn’t bothered to get divorced? Did the check for the license bounce?

I’m curious about that, too. If I had to guess, I’d guess that one of them either left fields unfilled or entered false information into the application.

[Tanaqui]

Based on the court filing, I’m going to go with “Wow! Science Guy’s a dick!”

Because he filed a restraining order against a clearly mentally unstable woman?

Maybe I’m going too far here, but I’m guessing the reason he decided not to marry that woman was for something along the lines of “the kind of crazy that attempts to poison your garden.”

[Clothahump]

I loved the stuff further down in the article. Emphasis mine:

" An Ohio man — who killed his ex-wife’s new husband but was found not guilty by reason of insanity in 2000 — has received permission to leave the state to visit the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky.

It will mark the first time in 11 years that Jeffrey D. Bornhoeft will be allowed to leave Ohio for a trip his father said he is taking because he has become involved with a church since the shooting death.

The court-approved trip, which is scheduled for Saturday, is the latest step toward freedom for Bornhoeft since Nov. 7, 2000, when a Warren County jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity in the shooting death of Jamey Johnson, 23, of Dayton.

During his trial, authorities said Bornhoeft had his ex-wife, Shawn "Candy" Johnson, on the phone as he fired three shots at close range from a .357-caliber revolver into the back of Johnson's head while he slept in a Lebanon apartment. Bornhoeft then threatened to turn the gun on himself during a three-hour standoff that ended when he surrendered to Lebanon police."

He may be a cold-blooded murderer, but at least he’s not a humanist.

[Ca3799]

ya, I don’t see Bill Nye being ill behaved in either story.

He took a picture of the outside of the Creation Museum building? So what. I’m sure he has a professional interest in what they do there.

He took a restraining order out against an ex who poisoned his garden after they broke up? That was a good decision and only confirms that the break up itself was a good decision, too.

[pythonzzz]

Bill Nye to Educators: Teach Evolution!

Kenny “ArkPark” Ham and his minions are getting even crankier about Bill:

“Bill Nye “The Science Guy” Doesn’t Really Understand Science” can be found on the Hamster’s FB page, along with:

Wow, those are the dumbest answers you could give as an evolutionist promoter. Even A laymen could discredit every answer he gives. He’s using stuff that’s “old”. Equating the other side to flat earth believers still? I have to say, what a sad, misinformed, idiotic retard. Name calling feels justified with this stone age argument using tool.

Riiiight, Mr. Hamlette…and you and your Creation “Museum” do REAL SCIENCE…

[Nametag]

@phouka

For what reasons can a marriage license be found invalid? Was Science Guy already married and hadn’t bothered to get divorced? Did the check for the license bounce?

Apparently it was never completed, in the sense that “conducting the ceremony before applying for a license” is not completing it.

And, in response to others, my assessment of Nye’s behavior is, admittedly, based on Tindall’s legal filing. I do find her story credible and consistent, and she admits she went a little nuts there for a while. I don’t blame Nye for seeking a restraining order; I blame him for marrying her in haste, dumping her on an accidental pretext after they had bought a house together and announced the whole thing all over television, and for this little gem: in a hand-written note (to whom, I don’t know), Nye says Tindall “wasn’t beautiful enough, athletic enough, or a good enough dancer. Now she has fallen for me, (as they always do)” Then whydja marry her, dickwad?

[ratatoskK]

@Nametag

I blame him for marrying her in haste…

Well I guess she’s guilty of the same thing! And I can’t believe that someone who went to Stanford didn’t understand the technicalities of buying a house. I guess 30 days in rehab is supposed to erase all the dumb things someone’s ever done.