The debate [in Undeniable] was nominally about creationism as a “viable” explanation for what we observe around us. For my side, the debate went very well; I’m not sure what I would change, although I can imagine shortening my answers during the rebuttals, perhaps.
BILL NYEOne of the drawbacks of English is you can’t spell things by hearing them.
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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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Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he’s a human calculator. He says it’s a skill he learned as a kid. Now he’s a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice.
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Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
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We are part of the process; we are the exquisite result of billions of years of natural research and development.
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The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
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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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Nuclear fission wasn’t discovered until long after Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace published their original books and papers, for example.
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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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SCIENCE is a part of EVERYONE’S everyday life.
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The Big Bang banged, and for some reason we’re here. And that’s astonishing. And that we can understand that, that’s the most astonishing.
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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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One of the drawbacks of English is you can’t spell things by hearing them.
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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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There really is no such thing as race. We all came from Africa. We are all of the same stardust. We are all going to live and die on the same planet, a Pale Blue Dot in the vastness of space. We have to work together.
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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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