I abandoned my religious teachings after I read the Bible twice – cover to cover. It took me a couple of years.
BILL NYETeaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
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If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it’s game over. It’s control-alt-delete for civilization.
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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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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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For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.
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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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If you have this idea that the earth is only 6,000 years old, you are denying, if you will, everything that you can touch and see. Youre not paying attention to whats happening in the universe around you.
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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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Think how fortunate we are to know this much. But think also of all that’s yet to be discovered. Here’s hoping the deep answers to the deep questions-from the nature of consciousness to the origin of life-will be found in not too much more time.
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Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.
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Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn’t, science will fix it.
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Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
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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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I’ll admit that the discovery of evolution is humbling, but it is also empowering. It transforms our relationship to the life around us. Instead of being outsiders watching the natural world go by, we are insiders.
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That’s what makes a human a human, if we store information outside our bodies.
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Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There’s something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym.
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