Ken Ham/Bill Nye Debate Worldwide Hit

If you didn’t think the idea of how the world was created is a major topic in 2014, last night’s debate between scientist Bill Nye and creationist Ken Ham should change your mind.

The debate between the two men regarding the foundation of the Earth and the origins of life drew a packed house to an auditorium at the Creation Museum in Kentucky.

The debate surprised observers by drawing around 800,000 online viewers on top of the 900 people who filled the event hall.  Social media buzz about the event reached a high point on the social network Twitter as tags related to the debate were the top four trending topics worldwide.

Observers were critical of the debate’s format with one noting it felt more like a “science lecture” than an actual debate.  After opening statements, both Ham and Nye had 30 minutes to make a presentation to back up their side of the issue before rebuttals and then finally questions from the audience.

The event received mostly negative responses from atheists and mainstream media outlets.  Some reporters like Elizabeth Dias of Time Magazine showed outright bias against Ham with snide comments in their reporting such as saying Twitter should have a hashtag that says “#OMGWeAreDebatingCreationIn2014” and mocking Ham with statements like “Ham is resurrecting his image as the defender of the faith to the big secular world.”

At the end of the event, neither man said they had changed their positions.

Study Shows Men’s and Women’s Brains Biologically Operate Differently

A groundbreaking study has shown that the brains of men and women actually do operate differently.

The study from the University of Pennsylvania shows that men’s brains typically have connections that run from the front of the brain to the back on the same sides of the brain, where women’s brains have connections that run from side to side. The difference in the way the brain is “hardwired” occurs during adolescence.

The researchers say the physical differences in the brain could explain why men are generally better at tasks involving muscle control while women are better at verbal tasks such as remembering conversations.

“These maps show us a stark difference – and complementarity – in the architecture of the human brain that helps to provide a potential neural basis as to why men excel at certain tasks, and women at others,” Radiology professor Ragini Verma said in a statement. “What we’ve identified is that, when looked at in groups, there are connections in the brain that are hardwired differently in men and women. Functional tests have already shown that when they carry out certain tasks, men and women engage different parts of the brain.”

A separate study last month found that genes in the brain also showed significant genetic differences between the sexes.