If we raise a generation of students who dont believe in the process of science, who think everything that weve come to know about nature and the universe can be dismissed by a few sentences translated into English from some ancient text, youre not going to continue to innovate.
BILL NYEIf we raise a generation of students who dont believe in the process of science, who think everything that weve come to know about nature and the universe can be dismissed by a few sentences translated into English from some ancient text, youre not going to continue to innovate.
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You start doing the addictive behavior to feel good and then your receptors get overloaded with dopamine, then you stop doing the addictive thing and some of the receptors have shut down and you don’t have enough dopamine to feel good.
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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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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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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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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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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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The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.
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If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they’ll be all over it.
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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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I hope next generation will emerge and produce technology, regulations, and a worldview that enable as many of us as possible to live happy healthy lives.
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We are special in the sense that we can know our place in the cosmos. We can know our place in space. We are at least one of the cosmos’s ways of knowing itself. That fills me with reverence and joy.
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Humor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.
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But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.
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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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I speak with dogs frequently. They don’t really talk, but I feel they’re communicating.
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