To The Reader’s Forum:

With all the hysteria over Trump refusing to sign the Paris agreement, I hope there’s still time to get this letter published before the earth melts. Like mini-Kathy Griffins devoid of good taste, honked-off hotheads infuriated by his refusal went ballistic firing off invectives, vitriol and vulgarities at Trump for putting Americans ahead of globalists. I’m open to listening to their side, but substituting f-bombs for scientific data is a complete turn off. Bill Nye the “Science Guy” tweeted, “U.S. chooses not to stay in Paris accord. The ‘Losers?’ Everyone on Earth. Sad.” How is sparing our nation a massive expense for meager results a sad thing?

What’s truly sad is conflating science with politics! In the March for Science two months ago, the word “science” was sadly exploited as a propaganda device to impose an agenda of greater government-control over the environment and increased regulation of natural resources coupled with a demand for taxpayer subsidies for politically-correct energy.

Even sadder than that is conflating science with bad religion. Creation-care rises up from Scripture beginning in Genesis, but when environmentalism takes on the character of religion, the red flag of idolatry starts waving. At the march, Nye ended his speech shouting, “Save the world!”

Managing to make Trump look humble, Nye now has a snazzy show called “Bill Nye Saves the World.” It lapses into an advocacy show for climate change and gender fluidity. In one episode, he had a rapper rudely rapping, “The world is full of choice, but must I choose between John and Joyce? …It’s evolution… My sex junk… it ain’t much… there’s more than either/or.”

Does the Bible diminish sexuality to “junk parts?” Besides disparaging what Scripture calls good, her appeal to evolution for gender fluidity reflects a personal opinion, not observational science. Like global warming, it may not be long before we start to hear that gender fluidity is the consensus of the scientific community. You’re witnessing science being used for making the evidence fit an agenda rather than properly using science to go where the evidence leads.

In 1996, a good science show explained to boys and girls that chromosomes “control whether we become a boy or a girl. There are only two possibilities: ‘XX,’ a girl, or ‘XY,’ a boy.” That show was “Bill Nye, the Science Guy.” Today, he’s devolved into “Bill, the de-Nye Science Guy.”

“Bill Nye Saves the World” sounds like a self-anointed environmental messiah. There’s only one Messiah for saving the world and it’s not him.

The Rev. Mel McGinnis

Frewsburg