Bill Nye: Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science, in all of biology. According to Bill Nye, aka "the science guy," if grownups want to "deny evolution and live in your world that's completely inconsistent with everything we observe in the universe, that's fine, but don't make your kids do it because we need them."

-- Transcript:
Denial of evolution is unique to the United States. I mean, we're the world's most advanced technological—I mean, you could say Japan—but generally, the United States is where most of the innovations still happens. People still move to the United States. And that's largely because of the intellectual capital we have, the general understanding of science. When you have a portion of the population that doesn't believe in that, it holds everybody back, really.

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science, in all of biology. It's like, it's very much analogous to trying to do geology without believing in tectonic plates. You're just not going to get the right answer. Your whole world is just going to be a mystery instead of an exciting place.

As my old professor, Carl Sagan, said, "When you're in love you want to tell the world." So, once in a while I get people that really—or that claim—they don't believe in evolution. And my response generally is "Well, why not? Really, why not?" Your world just becomes fantastically complicated when you don't believe in evolution. I mean, here are these ancient dinosaur bones or fossils, here is radioactivity, here are distant stars that are just like our star but they're at a different point in their lifecycle. The idea of deep time, of this billions of years, explains so much of the world around us. If you try to ignore that, your world view just becomes crazy, just untenable, itself inconsistent.

And I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world, in your world that's completely inconsistent with everything we observe in the universe, that's fine, but don't make your kids do it because we need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need people that can—we need engineers that can build stuff, solve problems.

It's just really hard a thing, it's really a hard thing. You know, in another couple of centuries that world view, I'm sure, will be, it just won't exist. There's no evidence for it.

Directed / Produced by
Jonathan Fowler and Elizabeth Rodd

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[PinkUnicornIsLord]

Facts vs "sceince"? These people get more stupid, daily.

[geo199021]

"when I was being attacked very hard by demons"....I just lost my shit, hahahaha

[PinkUnicornIsLord]

Cinnamongirl got trolled by The Daily Currant. Do u understand the definition of the word "satire"? Trollololol!

[matchlockfun]

"Because those espousing"....(Roger, the calm and placid holy spokesman for creationist objectivity).

You didn't answer the question - you simply inserted a strawman and attacked it.

Try again, champ - now GIVEN THE ALREADY KNOWN FACT that abiogenesis omits a supernatural cause, the question was WHY?

A little clue - does it have anything to do with a material phenomenon?

Alternatively GIVEN THE RELIGIOUS SUPERNATURALNESS of Noah's flood, why do apologists claim "supernatural" is not pertinent?

[ExtantFrodo2]

"harvard finding a meesage from YAHWEH himself in our dna code"

Do you know how to tell a hoax? The website url was not from Harvard. The site was taken down. Harvard never made any such posting or discovery. Don't talk about truth until you can avoid being so gullible.

[matchlockfun]

It turns out that you were right all along Alan.

Not only is DNA a language, but parts of it are in Aramaic. One piece says "Hello my children, this Yahweh the one true Lord, You have found creation's secret".

Wow.

Creationists are much better at science than anyone else (See Doctor cinnamongirlx1, PhD).

[TheBreadCatt]

"if the first life was reactive it would react not survive", your sentence did not make sense, I'm not sure if you understood my previous statement or the meaning of the word "reactive" in that context. Explain yourself better.

[TheBreadCatt]

Science is not on your side, you have gotten some things wrong: Birds evolved from dinosaurs, dinosaurs evolved from reptiles, and so did crocodiles. Dinosaurs and crocodiles split of the reptiles branch back then and evolved as two different branches. Now birds came of a branch of dinosaurs, but the rest of the dinosaurs was killed of since they could not survive the giant catastrophic event that happened when a giant rock slammed into earth. ( cont )

[ergonomover]

Maybe you should have a look at the uploader's comment where he admits he was fooled but it was okay. The only name on the paper is Daniel M. who isn't the author.

It is a joke that you fell for; if you prefer, I'll laugh with you and not at you. People should be a little less gullible, wouldn't you agree?