No. 84 in America · Week of November 9, 2026
Science communicator, Bill Nye the Science Guy
Bill Nye is a science communicator best known as the host of Bill Nye the Science Guy.
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Score breakdown
Nine parts, measured fresh each week. This is where Bill Nye's points came from, and the evidence behind each one.
Debate record
Took on creationist Ken Ham at the Creation Museum in 2014, a debate watched by millions.
Nye began as a mechanical engineer at Boeing, where he invented a hydraulic resonance suppressor tube used on 747s, before turning to comedy and then science television.
He hosted Bill Nye the Science Guy from 1993 to 1998 and remains one of the country's best-known science educators.
On the record
2014
February 4, 2014
Formal debate
Against Ken Ham · Creation Museum, Petersburg, Kentucky
Nye argued for evolution and an old Earth inside the Creation Museum. Several outlets reported that around 3 million people watched.
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