In another couple centuries I’m sure that worldview won’t even exist. There’s no evidence for it.
BILL NYESome of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently.
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I want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on.
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Evolution is a theory, and it’s a theory that you can test. We’ve tested evolution in many ways. You can’t present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.
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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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I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.
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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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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.
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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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That’s what makes a human a human, if we store information outside our bodies.
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We are part of the process; we are the exquisite result of billions of years of natural research and development.
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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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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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Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.
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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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Educated women have fewer kids. And the kids they do have are better cared for and are more successful. As I like to say, it’s not one thing that we need to focus on. It’s everything all at once.
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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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