I abandoned my religious teachings after I read the Bible twice – cover to cover. It took me a couple of years.
BILL NYEUnlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.
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When we sit down to draw or paint the sun’s rays, we generally use yellow because in the morning and the evening with the blue light scattered away so strongly you’re left with a little bit of red and it comes out yellowish.
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The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change. All of these people breathing and burning our atmosphere has led to an extraordinarily dangerous situation.
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There’s nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.
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The world’s going to change climatically. We just want to control the change. We want to have a high quality of life for billions of people as we pass through this era.
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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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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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If you just take a single human and put him or her in the forest he or she might not do very well without some sort of education which he got or she got from some tribe.
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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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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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If you decide to become a dancer on Broadway, never say who your favorite dance partner is, because members of the media will presume you never want to dance with anybody else.
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Educated women have fewer kids. And the kids they do have are better cared for and are more successful. As I like to say, it’s not one thing that we need to focus on. It’s everything all at once.
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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.
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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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Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
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