If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it’s game over. It’s control-alt-delete for civilization.
BILL NYEOne of the drawbacks of English is you can’t spell things by hearing them.
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Religion is a completely different thing from the claim that the Earth is six thousand years old. That’s just crazy.
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We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need engineers that can build stuff and solve problems.
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I want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on.
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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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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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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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Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science, in all of biology. The key to our being here now is time, 4.54 billion (Earth) years of time.
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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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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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When we explore the cosmos, we come to believe and prove that we can solve problems that have never been solved. It brings out the best in us. Space exploration imbues everyone with an optimistic view of the future.
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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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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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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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I stand by my assertions that although you can know what happens to any individual species that you modify, you cannot be certain what will happen to the ecosystem.
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