This is in stark contrast to creationism, which offers a static view of the world, one that cannot be challenged or tested with reason. And because it cannot make predictions, it cannot lead to new discoveries, new medicines, or new ways to feed all of us.
BILL NYETalk about science with everyone you meet. Especially talk about climate change. It needs to become a part of our everyday conversation (the way it is everywhere else in the world).
More Bill Nye Quotes
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Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
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I abandoned my religious teachings after I read the Bible twice – cover to cover. It took me a couple of years.
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The future of commerce is going to be all electronic. The gold standard was a fine idea, but electronic changes of funds and credits will be the future.
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Millennial voters are very concerned about climate change and will vote for candidates who are planning to address it. But the systems that are in place.
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The natural world is a package deal; you don’t get to select which facts you like and which you don’t.
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I understand that you take the Bible, as written in English, translated many many times over the last three millennia as to be a more accurate, more reasonable assessment of the natural laws we see around us than what I and everybody in here can observe. That, to me, is unsettling.
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For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.
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Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
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In another couple centuries I’m sure that worldview won’t even exist. There’s no evidence for it.
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The thing about a theory in science is it allows you make predictions. Evolutionary theory allows us to predict what apples will taste good next harvest.
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I speak with dogs frequently. They don’t really talk, but I feel they’re communicating.
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Along with the evidence of common sense, researchers have proven scientifically that humans are all one people. We’re a lot like dogs in that regard. If a Great Dane interacts (can we say interact?) with a Chihuahua, you get a dog.
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We are part of the process; we are the exquisite result of billions of years of natural research and development.
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From an evolutionary standpoint you can’t just wipe everything out and start over, and I don’t think you can do it in the school system either.
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Evolution is a theory, and it’s a theory that you can test. We’ve tested evolution in many ways. You can’t present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.
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