Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
BILL NYEReligion is a completely different thing from the claim that the Earth is six thousand years old. That’s just crazy.
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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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Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.
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NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world’s premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.
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The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.
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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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People get a lot out of being religious. They have strong senses of community and mutual support. So, what’s not to love [there]?
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The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
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How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?
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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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Humor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.
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We are special in the sense that we can know our place in the cosmos. We can know our place in space. We are at least one of the cosmos’s ways of knowing itself. That fills me with reverence and joy.
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Think how fortunate we are to know this much. But think also of all that’s yet to be discovered. Here’s hoping the deep answers to the deep questions-from the nature of consciousness to the origin of life-will be found in not too much more time.
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Climate change is a real deal. So, hey deniers – cut it out, and let’s get to work.
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I always say when you see that old black-and-white footage of the rocket on the launch pad and it falls over and explodes, that’s because people had slide rules. Not having the decimal point is a real drawback. You want the decimal point, take it from me.
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There really is no such thing as race.
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