No matter what you may believe spiritually or otherwise, the Earth is clearly not 6,000 or 10,000 years old.
BILL NYEThe natural world is a package deal; you don’t get to select which facts you like and which you don’t.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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People and stars are made of the same stuff.
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If you have this idea that the earth is only 6,000 years old, you are denying, if you will, everything that you can touch and see. Youre not paying attention to whats happening in the universe around you.
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I am so old, I entered engineering school with a slide rule. And I left engineering school with a calculator. I can still use a slide rule but it’s not a skill you especially need anymore.
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When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It’s like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?
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Apparently there is redundancy in memory: You store the same memory in different parts of your brain for accessing at different speeds. That speed would depend on the frequency of use and the importance of the knowledge.
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The US Navy has several people on every ship that can navigate by the stars. They don’t fool with that.
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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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Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
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You start doing the addictive behavior to feel good and then your receptors get overloaded with dopamine, then you stop doing the addictive thing and some of the receptors have shut down and you don’t have enough dopamine to feel good.
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If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they’ll be all over it.
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If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it’s game over. It’s control-alt-delete for civilization.
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Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There’s something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym.
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My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.
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The strange thing about grinding that might surprise many people is that you can grind things and shape them using materials that are generally somewhat softer than the thing you’re grinding and shaping.
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Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.
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