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Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.

Bill Nye

I tell personal stories associated with aspects of the theory, and I hope they are interesting and compelling. I don’t feel you’re going to change a grownup’s mind in one reading. People have to be exposed to scientific ideas over and over again for years. It’s also not a textbook.
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Ideas Personal Reading Tell Years
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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People Quality Want
Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
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Alternatives Class Teaching
For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.
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Life Meaning Strive
Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.
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Goal Law Pursuit Wonder
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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Fiction Mars Minute Planet Shadow Travel
It fills me with joy to know that we can pursue these answers. It is an astonishing thing that we are — you and I are one of the ways the universe knows itself.
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Answer Astonishing Joy Thing Universe
No matter what you may believe spiritually or otherwise, the Earth is clearly not 6,000 or 10,000 years old.
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Believe Earth Matter Spiritually Years
Also, we have a strange situation where we have malnourished fat people. It’s not that we need more food. It’s that we need to manage our food system better.
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Better Need People Situation System
I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.
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Arithmetic Intimidated People
Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. If one’s faith requires one to abandon or ignore natural laws, well, that person is going to have trouble reconciling religion and science. Otherwise, there is no any conflict.
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Conflict Goal Law
I hope next generation will emerge and produce technology, regulations, and a worldview that enable as many of us as possible to live happy healthy lives.
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Healthy Hope Lives
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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Boys Father Ties
Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.
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Abstinence Insisting Recommending
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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Over School Starting Thinking
We are part of the process; we are the exquisite result of billions of years of natural research and development.
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Development Natural Research

Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.

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Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.

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