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.

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Jonathan Fowler and Elizabeth Rodd

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[RogerS4JC]

@werriboy55 "believe in me or I'll break your legs/send you to hell"

The natural world is also with opposite choice/consequences. Men who quite loving their wives often end up as adversaries before a judge.

@werriboy55 "what way is god threatening me with hell like me being gods enemy"

You are informed of what is to be:

Rev 20:14 & death & hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the 2nd death.

Mat 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, & love the other..

[ergonomover]

Would you say 'bacteria to you' happened in millions or billions of 'ancestral' increments?

Oh, trillions is an option too.

'Long ago people thought hay=mice so goddunit.' lol

"Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid." -(king) Hans Solo(mon) 12,365 BC (and far away).

[Huebination]

You are getting more wildly irrelevant with every comment you make. Again: The Catholic Church is not the topic here. The topic is that almost 50% of the US American population subscribe to a movement called Creationism that dismisses some of the most hard-established scientific facts in existence, which is a shameful thing. I could care less whether the Catholic Church approves or disapproves, they have their own fair share of reactionary dogmas which are detrimental to society.

[ergonomover]

Funny, I never claimed he can't manage his backlogs.

According to him, he does not manage them. I've been here long enough to know he is mainly interested in live exchanges, and I'd say that shows in the poorly-thought-out quality of so many of his posts.

Like you, he uses up (wastes) comment space with redundancy - him with insults and you with 'ha's.

ALMOST a NICE rebuttal BY the WAY.

[ergonomover]

There are plenty of answers from Tom and others I don't like, but that doesn't mean I need to lower myself, forget logic and adopt insults.

Wonder if you would you like someone to constantly call you "ewe, sheeple, murderer, bowelmover, halfwit, dimwit, schmuck, anti-christ devotee, ewer nose is in ewer prostate' and a variety of other slurs. I doubt it.

I don't expect him to reply neither immediately (of course not, it's too early!) nor even later on. He might or might not. Hahahahahahahaha!