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We're becoming better and better at making artificial beings, but we still aren't terribly sure how our own world came about.
There are those who prefer to imagine that it was one big, Godly bang. Others, though, think it was just a big Scientific Bang that hasn't yet been entirely explained, but soon will be.
There's a certain tension between some members of each camp. This frustrates erudite scientific minds such as Bill Nye. In an interview with Newsmax, he explained that you have to be quite deluded to think that the Earth is only 6,000 years old.
Thinking something like that is simply not thinking at all. "The Earth is, by the latest reckoning, 4.54 billion years old," he said.
He explained: "The problem is we have adults who have very strong conservative views that are reluctant to let kids learn about evolution."
Read more http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/teaching-creationism-makes-kids-less-intelligent-says-bill-nye/
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There are those who prefer to imagine that it was one big, Godly bang. Others, though, think it was just a big Scientific Bang that hasn't yet been entirely explained, but soon will be.
There's a certain tension between some members of each camp. This frustrates erudite scientific minds such as Bill Nye. In an interview with Newsmax, he explained that you have to be quite deluded to think that the Earth is only 6,000 years old.
Thinking something like that is simply not thinking at all. "The Earth is, by the latest reckoning, 4.54 billion years old," he said.
He explained: "The problem is we have adults who have very strong conservative views that are reluctant to let kids learn about evolution."
Read more http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/teaching-creationism-makes-kids-less-intelligent-says-bill-nye/
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