Bill Nye - "The Science Guy" - booed in Texas for saying the moon reflects the sun

Bill Nye, the harmless children's edu-tainer known as "The Science Guy," was recently in Waco, TX,  to participate in McLennan Community College's Distinguished Lecture Series. He gave two lectures on such topics as global warming, Mars exploration, and energy consumption.

Nye somehow managed to offend a group of adults in Waco when he suggested that the moon does not emit light, but instead reflects the light of the sun.

As even most elementary-school graduates know, the moon reflects the light of the sun but produces no light of its own.

But don't tell that to the good people of Waco, who were "visibly angered by what some perceived as irreverence," according to the Waco Tribune.

Nye got people riled up when he brought up Genesis 1:16, which reads: "God made two great lights -- the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars."

The lesser light  he pointed out, is not a light at all, but only a reflector.

At this point, several people in the audience stormed out in fury. One woman yelled "We believe in God!" and left with three children, thus ensuring that people across America would read about the incident and conclude that Waco is as nutty as they'd always suspected.

This story originally appeared in the Waco Tribune, but the newspaper has mysteriously pulled its story from the online version, presumably to avoid further embarrassment.
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