I abandoned my religious teachings after I read the Bible twice – cover to cover. It took me a couple of years.
BILL NYEI 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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People and stars are made of the same stuff.
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Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
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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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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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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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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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Humor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.
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You run your life according to all this stuff that’s happened to you. All of your memories affect everything you do whereas with a computer, there’s adaptive software and things, but it’s more literal.
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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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The Earth is not 6,000 or 10,000 years old. It’s not. And if that conflicts with your beliefs, I strongly feel you should question your beliefs.
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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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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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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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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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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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