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.
BILL NYENot wasting any water bottles is good. Not leaving the lights on is good. Turning the thermostat down in the winter, up in the summer, is good. But the best thing any of us in the developed world, especially in the United States, can be doing is talking about it.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.
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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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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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If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it’s game over. It’s control-alt-delete for civilization.
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We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
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But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they’re not as good.
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No matter what you may believe spiritually or otherwise, the Earth is clearly not 6,000 or 10,000 years old.
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Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or process of inference about our origin and the nature of the universe disproves creationism in every respect.
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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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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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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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In another couple centuries I’m sure that worldview won’t even exist. There’s no evidence for it.
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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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Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
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I tell personal stories associated with aspects of the theory, and I hope they are interesting and compelling. I don’t feel you’re going to change a grownup’s mind in one reading. People have to be exposed to scientific ideas over and over again for years. It’s also not a textbook.
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