Bill Nye the Anti-Creationism Guy

Watch the video. Trust me.

Here’s a synopsis:

• Evolution denial is mostly unique to the United States, among the more technologically innovative nations.
• When a portion of the population doesn’t believe in evolution (science), it holds the whole nation back.
• Life science is strictly incomplete without evolution. Without evolution, explaining life becomes fantastically complicated. Without the idea of billion-year timescales, the universe itself is untenable.
• Don’t indoctrinate your kids with creationism – we need scientific children to grow up and support our nation.
• In a couple of centuries, Bill is confident that worldview won’t exist, because there’s no evidence for it.

I have to say, he manages to say this in a much friendlier manner than I can. Evolution deniers really anger me.

Oh Hermione, Your Wisdom Amazes Me

Logic is such a wonderful thing:

What about the stone, Mr. Lovegood? The thing you call the resurrection stone?

What of it?

Well, how can it be real?

Prove that it is not.

But that’s – I’m sorry, but that’s completely ridiculous! How can I possibly prove that it doesn’t exist? Do you expect me to get hold of – of all the pebbles in the world and test them? I mean, you could claim anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!

It’s a Duck (9gag.com)

It’s been a busy couple of days, so I need to “cop out” and do a humorous image post today. This one comes courtesy of 9gag.com, and it’s an excellent little comic essay on faith and agnosticism vs. science and evidence.

 

I’d Rather Have Spider-Man