Bill Nye: The Earth is Really, Really Not 6,000 Years Old
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Bill Nye (The Science Guy) comments on a previous Big Think video in which he denounces the teaching of creationism to America's students. Bill Nye is the author of Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation. Read more at BigThink.com: http://goo.gl/UM7u1Q Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BigThinkdotcom Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink Transcript: Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science. So if we raise a generation of science students who don’t understand the main idea in biology they’re going to be incompletely educated students and this is going to be trouble for the United States because the United States keeps in the game economically by innovating – having new ideas, new products, new ways of doing things. That’s what the United States produces and brings to the world. And if we raise a significant fraction of our students who don’t understand science we’re not going to have the engineers and scientists to continue this tradition. So for me it’s troubling objectively or subjectively as one can be and as a citizen of the U.S. I believe, I think here on Big Think that the problem is the same thing that allows us to recognize patterns to imagine shapes and things and routes and ways to get things done before we actually start doing those things that that ability also enables us to understand that despite our best efforts we’re all going to die. And I think that makes all of us a little nutty. We all find it a little troubling. And so because it seems incredible that all this stuff that we store in our brain, all the memories we have, all the mental images that we are able to keep, all the algebra that we learn, that all that goes away when we die is really hard for all of us to accept. And along with this is that we are not nature’s last word. We are not the final answer that nature came up with. That we are not what some entity created as his or her very best work. We’re just one more step on the evolutionary timeline. And for many people that’s so troubling they can’t accept it at all. For me, of course, it’s empowering and amazing and it makes me want to live every moment of every day in the best way possible. But for a lot of people it’s literally unimaginable. Our journey begins when I was in New York. I’m living in New York nowadays but a year and a half ago I came here on an airplane and I had to be someplace for a television interview at – I had to get up around 5:00 a.m. Eastern time which was 2:00 a.m. Pacific time. And by the time I got to Big Think I was worn out. I was a little worn out. And you guys asked me a fabulous question about creationism. I’m not sure why you chose to ask that question and I spoke from the heart how troubling I find it for the United States science educational system, for our science students in the U.S. to be excluded or not be enlightened and not be enabled by the fundamental idea in all of biology which is descent by natural selection, evolution. So you guys posted that and people went a little crazy on the electric Internet, the computer machine that the kids use. And I just remind everybody when people take the time to write and they take the time to hate me that much, these are not people you’re not going to reason with. These are not people that you’re going to sit down and have a conversation with and a discussion and achieve a new conclusion. We each have pretty much made up our minds and so you can’t worry about that stuff too much. My concern is not for the grownups who take the time to write these inflammatory things and react to your fabulous website and so on. My concern is for the people who are still in school, the people who are the future of the U.S., the future of the U.S. economy. And larger the future of the world’s economy. I mean the United States is so influential. It’s the third most populous nation in the world and it’s the nation that sent people to the moon. I mean it’s still a big influence. You can make very strong arguments for South Korea, Japan – huge economies doing amazing – Brazil doing amazing things. But still the United States is the leader in this stuff and so when we exclude a generation of science students we’re headed for trouble. [TRANSCRIPT TRUNCATED] Directed/Produced by Jonathan Fowler, Elizabeth Rodd, and Dillon Fitton
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creationism = retarded refusal to accept the truth in the name of a book that doesn't make sense.
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I'd like to see a video of Bill trying to stealthily remove a woman's bra. Now that would be hilarious.
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Bill Nye will next prove his physical prowess by stomping on baby chicks.
If you're stupid enough to buy creationism, and believe the earth is 6,000 years old, you're beyond help; stop wasting time on fools. -
He looks like Lincoln with that suit and bow tie. All he needs is a beard.
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Listen to Bill, people that believe the planet is 6000 years old is REALLY REALLY WRONG. It boggles my mind that in 2016 people still hold onto bronze age myths.
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Bill Nye is dying I'm so sad right now Bill I hope you live forever I'll make sure I'll continue your history
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Guy thinks monkeys can adapt to become humans, but fish could not adapt to salt water? We had biology before Darwin's lies. Bill Nye is lying out of his teeth
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even the Pope believes in evolution and the big bang.
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“Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize,ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief.” Frantz Fanon
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Hi bill just a thought is this the beginning of the splitting of the human race like in the time machine movie the eloy and the morlocks hard to tell which side is which right now.
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Where did the animal that evolved into man and ape get the genes to branch into these two species? Genes cannot be gained, only lost.
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How would the earth be millions and billions of years old if there were only 4,000 years BC and 2,016 years AD? It proves that it couldn't be millions and billions of years old and only 6,016 years.
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Fuck you willy wonka looking ass. IT IS 6,016 YEARS OLD
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if there were Dinosaurs were around 65-100 million years ago then how the fuck is the Earth only 6000 years old? The Bible is matter of interpretation. Its not an opinion of the Earth's age. Its common sense. Now, as far as how long humans have been around for is up for debate. At first they saying only thousands of years. Next, it maybe a little longer and that they're may have been an older race of humans that were actually more advanced then we originally thought. Now, they are saying that humans may have actually lived side by side with dinosaurs. Evidence found in a ton of cave drawings that show a person and drawings of huge creatures the look exactly like some species fo dinosaurs. Now does this mean we're much older than originally thought or did dinosaurs not die out in a mass extinction event like originally thought? mind fucked.
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Sorry you are not the only scientist and there are many and who believes GOD who is the greatet scientist.
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Existential crisis here I come🙌🏼🙈
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A year is a day, and a day like a year to God. He does not measure time with spins of our planet.
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So essentially, people will like science if it suits their wants and needs. Which seems to be extraordinarily hypocritical if you denounce Evolutionary science as "untrue" and that the only answers for anything come from Bronze Age mythologies and legends then you come back to science when you get sick.
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So I'm an ingrate huh... I used to look up to Bill Nye. Now I'm ungrateful for the mastery of specific sciences that help influence the world in a positive manner. Developments in the sciences that have practical and beneficial purpose are not the same as the development of complex and frankly, far--reaching theories about the creation of everything in the known world. I won't subscribe to such an obtuse paradigm. All Bill Nyes's (and others) belief in these theories prove is that the fear of the unknown and death forces him to search desperately for a way to escape his own mortality and in realizing the fruitlessness of his efforts he becomes aware of the truth that he is unable to. Indoctrinating the belief of such theories as fact can only serve to reveal his own insecurities in true form. As desperation. He speaks of his fear of death in the beginning of the video. He states that everyone is afraid of death. That is simply not true. I don't care why he said this. I only wish to point out that projecting your own fear into others is not the right way to lead other people. It's fear mongering.
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People will never change... what I suggest is you take all religious people and ship them to an island and let their god take care of them so the rest of us can live without the corruption of their fictional stories... we need to start focusing on science so when our sun dies off we can move to other planets so our species doesn't die. If our world just consisted of religious nut heads then our species will surely be no more.
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