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I always say when you see that old black-and-white footage of the rocket on the launch pad and it falls over and explodes, that’s because people had slide rules. Not having the decimal point is a real drawback. You want the decimal point, take it from me.

Bill Nye

We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need engineers that can build stuff and solve problems.
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Literate Problem Scientific Solve
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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Book Evolution Ideas Years
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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Answers Debate Sides
One of the drawbacks of English is you can’t spell things by hearing them.
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Drawbacks Hearing Spells
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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Attention Ideas Years
There really is no such thing as race.
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Blue Dot Pale Race Space Vastness
SCIENCE is a part of EVERYONE’S everyday life.
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Everyday Everyday Life
Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
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Long Spring Winter
Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
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Answers Creationism Past
We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
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Needs Taxpayers Voters
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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Country Discovered Example Fission Nuclear Papers
There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as “we”; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm.
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Editors People Two
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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Believe Engineering People
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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Challenged Creationism Discoveries Static
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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Mutual Religious Strong Support
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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Cycling Future Out Work

I always say when you see that old black-and-white footage of the rocket on the launch pad and it falls over and explodes, that’s because people had slide rules. Not having the decimal point is a real drawback. You want the decimal point, take it from me.

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I always say when you see that old black-and-white footage of the rocket on the launch pad and it falls over and explodes, that’s because people had slide rules. Not having the decimal point is a real drawback. You want the decimal point, take it from me.

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