Pft, what does Bill Nye know? How dare the VP of the Planetary Society try to tell us that the Moon doesn't generate its own light!

I hate this emoticon, but...

Bill Nye is awesome.

Quoted for being the undeniable truth.

How rude... I bet that's the only reason they came to 'listen,' so they could cause a scene. "OMFGGGG GOD EXISTS OMGGGG YOU BAD MAN!"

Perhaps we could get the great administrator to ban them from the simulation.

Bill Nye the Science Guy!
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Bill!

Inertia is a property of matter

My dad's funeral home buried Bill Nye's brother.

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Coolmatty wins like, 23 internets.

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Is it bad I found that hilarious?

Edit- Oh God...being 4 years old again just flooded my mind when I heard the song CM posted.

No.

For the people who weren't able to find the camouflaged link.

When I was a kid, I'm talking like 3-5, all I would watch was Bill Nye.


I had one kickass childhood.

I think some religious people over-react to any scientist's comments towards religion because many of them are irreverant towards religious views. And then, of course, some scientists support controversial (and implausible) theories such as evolution and man made global warming which contradict many peoples religious views.

bill nye pwns so much that jkirby should even be jealous

"Some" scientists support "implausible" theories such as evolution?

...and global warming contradicts religious views?

If you have good arguments, use them, not dumb ones.

Who are you talking to?

Absolutely. Many regard it as fact. Some still seek to prove it. Certainly there must be some who do not agree with it. Believing in evolution to be true is really quite similar to believing that Creation is true. Both appear to be unprovable at this point in time.



Not global warming per se but the belief that man causes it. Many religious people would believe that man has no ability to alter God's Creation to such an extent.

Now if anyone is interested in my personal views at the present time, I would have to say this. My views are not founded on any deep, religious convictions. With regards to global climate change I disbelieve man causes it. I believe man could be a factor, just as any natural phenomena could, but vastly greater climate change has occurred before any industrialization has. When it comes to evolution of life, as well as the planet, there are just too many unexplained missing links to be explained away for the science to be convincing at this time. Another millenia of research should go a long way to settling these debates.

I suppose those religious people must also believe that nuclear weapons simply don't exist, since they could so drastically alter God's creation.

How so?

Uh, I'd say the world's collective nuclear stockpile could do some pretty heavy 'alterations' to our planet.

Mankind's combined nuclear arsenals, when detonated, could drastically change the planet. Theoretically, we could kill almost all life on earth through nuclear fallout. That would be altering God's creation to an extreme extent, thus certain religious people can't believe mankind has the power to do that.

Well, I'm not really equipped to get into a serious theological debate. I would say that it is already theorized that far worse global extinction level events have already occurred and life seems to be thriving now. I guess the combined nuclear arsenal of the world could be detonated resulting in a short term change to the environment that would make the surface inhospitable to much of the life currently inhabiting the planet. We won't really know until it happens and then study the effects for a thousand years or so.

volcanoes emit more co2 than mankind does. maybe we should just damn them up and see how much of an impact we actually cause.

I'm gonna ask that from God when we go bowling with Mickey Mouse at Narnia next week.

god isn't science, therefore the science guy doesn't believe it!

Bill Nye rawks!! He's my teaching HERO!

I took a lot of teaching cues from Bill. Maybe sometime I'll post the videos I made.

Detonating a good chunk of our nuclear arsenal in some remote place (I'm thinking maybe Antarctica) would be a great way to stop global warming. All the dust thrown up into the atmosphere... Hell all you have to do is have a single fission-triggered Teller-Ulam device in the gigaton range and then there'd hardly be any fallout either. The thing would be absolutely massive but who cares; it's not like it needs to be portable.

As a side note, nukes would also work for damming up volcanoes if you did it right (do it wrong and you'd have a heck of an eruption). They're handy little things for sure; pity we can't use them more.

Also, Orion Drive lol. Partial Test Ban Treaty aaaaaarg

Wait I think we were talking about Bill Nye in this thread. Yeah he's awesome

There are a lot of arguments against mankind causing global warming, but this isn't one of them.

We emit a lot more CO2 than volcanoes do, but it isn't really the problem anyway.

Wow, I had no idea how much this was true until I checked wikipedia: "Volcanic activity now releases about 130 to 230 teragrams (145 million to 255 million short tons) of carbon dioxide each year,[6] which is less than 1% of the amount released by human activities.[7]"

Yeah I'm thinking that might as well be statistical error.

FTFY

Damnit people, Bill Nye!

Too many Christians view the Bible as a scientific textbook when God made it to be a spiritual/religious guidebook.

Plenty of stories in the Bible are accepted to be parables (IE made up story with a moral). The Bible itself says that God is the same and does not change. So why do they expect that God would hand down the story of the creation of the universe (which happened largely before man was created) as scientific truth? Not to mention that scientific truth was irrelevant to the first audience and would have baffled them. It's a religious story made not to explain how the universe works or the scientific process that went into its creation and/or evolution, but to get the point across that God was responsible for it all. Actually, it's not even largely for that, since it takes up all of two pages. It's mostly about the Fall of Man, really.

No way! The scientific community recognizes evolution as fact. There is just a TON of evidence supporting it, and its observable. Like all good science, evolution makes predictions which turn out to be true. Like this gene fusion found in humans Need more evidence? How about vestigal things, those are fun.