Bill Nye "The Science Guy" was booed in Waco, Texas for suggesting the Moon did not generate its own light, but reflected light from the sun.

Trouble started when the children's entertainer 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," and pointed out that the lesser light was actually a reflector.

At this point, several people in the audience stormed out, including woman with three small children who shouted, "We believe in God!" and left.

Nye was taking part in McLennan Community College's Distinguished Lecture Series, giving talks on global warming, Mars exploration, and energy consumption, but it was the moon thing that got them.

According to Morgan Matthew, "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."

http://www.examiner.com/x-4112-Skepticism-Examiner~y2009m4d22-Just-shoot-me

Haha, again? This happened somewhere else a few years back. I forget where though.

I love the idea of the moon and the sun being related. One is an atom-smashing perpetual explosion that creates light and heat and is the bottom of the entire food chain. The other is a big chunk of reflective space cheese. People have even stood on it.

People shouldn't be taking their kids to see the Science Guy speak if they don't like the parts where science proves creation myths wrong. That happens a lot.

Such a belief sounds positively medieval.

He's always getting boo'ed.

Next thing he'll say the world is round. BURN HIM!

I once say a documentary where kids were being taught how men and dinosaurs coexisted.
Apparently all life was created within the first six days, which by definition means all beings must have coexisted.

The Earth is flat! We believe in God! Heresy!

What, a science guy said that? He clearly doesn't know his science properly, we all know that its moon fungus that makes the moon shine.

Fungus which comes from the cheese. Yes the moon is made of cheese, blue vein which is why we don't eat it, except europeans.

Seriously fuck that scientiest bad mouthing the moon.

I take offense to that. I eat blue vein cheese and I'm not European.

Heretic...