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.
BILL NYERecommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.
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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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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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Climate change is a real deal. So, hey deniers – cut it out, and let’s get to work.
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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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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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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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The philosophy of science is inherent in the process. This is to say, you think critically, you draw a conclusion based on evidence, but we all pursue discovery based on our observations. That’s where science starts.
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I used to play ultimate Frisbee, and I just got a reputation for making popcorn at parties. I don’t mean to brag on myself, but I make the popcorn in the pot, and it comes out fine every time.
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Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.
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I abandoned my religious teachings after I read the Bible twice – cover to cover. It took me a couple of years.
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Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.
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We should educate more women and girls. Because that is the surest route to controllably, manageably reducing the human population.
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Talk about science with everyone you meet. Especially talk about climate change. It needs to become a part of our everyday conversation (the way it is everywhere else in the world).
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Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently.
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I 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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