Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. If one’s faith requires one to abandon or ignore natural laws, well, that person is going to have trouble reconciling religion and science. Otherwise, there is no any conflict.
BILL NYEThe thing about a theory in science is it allows you make predictions. Evolutionary theory allows us to predict what apples will taste good next harvest.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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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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There’s nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.
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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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If you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.
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Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
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How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?
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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 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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I feel that I’ve often pointed out that there are countless aspects of life and nature that scientists and scientific thinkers cannot explain.
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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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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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We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
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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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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.
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There really is no such thing as race.
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