In American media, where the practice of false equivalencies has been elevated to a kind of perverse political correctness,  one icon of children’s edutainment thinks our kids deserve to know the straight truth.

Back in the 1990’s, PBS’s Bill Nye the Science Guy, made science fun for our kids.  Remember Naked mole rats?

“They’re mole rats…and they’re naked!

Now, Bill Nye is taking on the grown-ups, challenging climate change deniers, and objecting to the Christian right’s encrouchment on science education.

Squaring-off against Creationists, Nye warns that replacing scientific facts with Christian lore in children’s education is not just a disservice to those children, but also a threat to America’s competitiveness in a world of increasingly sophisticated scientific knowledge.

“The Earth is not 6,000 or 10,000 years old,” Nye said in an interview with The Associated Press, citing scientists’ estimates that it is about 4.5 billion years old. “It’s not. And if that conflicts with your beliefs, I strongly feel you should question your beliefs.”

Not surprisingly, he’s getting a lot of grief from folks like the founders of the Creation Museum, whose stock in trade is flim-flam; but science and rational thought seem to have found a new champion.