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“No matter what you may believe spiritually or otherwise, the Earth is clearly not 6,000 or 10,000 years old.”

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Bill Nye, born on November 27, 1955, is an American educator renowned for his contributions to science education. He is best known for his work on the television show 'Bill Nye the Science Guy,' where he made complex scientific concepts accessible to the public and inspired a generation of young people to pursue science. more

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“I don't perceive an anti-religious agenda, especially with regard to Christians and Christianity. The issue being debated was creationism, the idea that the Earth is 6,000 years old. As I understand it, this involves the Bible's Old Testament exclusively.”

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“Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science, in all of biology. The key to our being here now is time, 4.54 billion (Earth) years of time. Nuclear fission wasn't discovered until long after Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace published their original books and papers, for example. Our ability to measure atomic masses wasn't developed until long after their deaths. These features of nature enabled us to reckon the age of the Earth and compare it with speciation rates here.”

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“If you just take a single human and put him or her in the forest he or she might not do very well without some sort of education which he got or she got from some tribe.”

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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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“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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“Science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion.”

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“Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.”

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“The thing about a theory in science is it allows you make predictions. Evolutionary theory allows us to predict what apples will taste good next harvest.”

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“I definitely used to lie about my age. I'm from Tennessee and everyone would vacation in Destin, Florida, where there are lots of cute guys. I would go with my older sister and lie about my age to them.”

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“The meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future. The claim that we would not have morals or ethics without religion is extraordinary. Animals in nature seem to behave in moral ways without organized religion.”

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Author:Bill Nye