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>> well, richard, they've gotten a lot better as the day has gone on. we woke up this morning, there was several inches of snow on the ground. now as you can see, we're on a highway. >> okay. ron allen there on the road in chatham, new jersey. looks like we did lose his audio, but we have his video and can get a sense there the roads, got some blacktop, however, it is expected to be a little bit of an issue for the rest of the day. and if we are able to rejoin ron, of course, we'll get that to him. the question, 6,000 or several billion years. it's the battle between the bible and science. f...

There to be a winner per se but he hoped people would go online and start to question and research things on their own, which sort of means that he hopes that people are persuaded towards his perspective that the earth is 6,000 years old and evolution is not fact. >> in the scientific community, saying that by having such a popular figure like bill there, to even engage in the debate gives creationism more credence then it deserves. >> that's right. what they are saying is that science is not decided by debate. debate is about performance and about persuading an audience. science is determined...

Time, evolution or creationism, well, bill nye is getting into this, the science guy and ken hamm are going to duke it out tonight and msnbc's adam is going to be there for the blow by blow. the genesis as we both know for this debate was sparked by a u tube video nye had done where he said the concept of creationism should not be taught to children. >> i say to the grown-ups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your -- in your world that's completely inconsistent with everything we observe in the universe, that's fine. but don't make your kids do it because we need them. we need scienti...

Jobs number that's going to come out this friday, because gdp was up 3.2% in the fourth quarter. that's the single best indicator the economy is growing, but it's retrospective and more recent data haven't shown the trend strengthen. manufacturing and construction have slowed, personal income and spending on big ticket items like cars has slow. many are saying the weak jobs number is more indicative of a broader slowdown so people are going to be focused on this friday's job figure. >> i'm looking at housing and it seems to be doing better. i'll hope that's a positive indicator for the coming ...

That nye is trying to create here in this debate, is there really a debate about it? >> well, that's one of the things that the creationists are excited about. any time you put evolution and creationism on the same level they feel they are winning. this debate they are putting on the museum is producing at a loss. they claim they are not making money off of it. >> even though they sold out -- >> how excited they are. they did sell out. they are going to be selling dvds of the debate after the fact. they are definitely very excited about this. >> what is expected to be the structure of this deb...