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Bill Nye: Asteroid DA14 ‘could kill a lot of people’ if it hit Earth
Bill Nye, the CEO of the Planetary Society, admitted Thursday night that the recently discovered 2012 DA14 asteroid would kill a lot of people if it struck Earth. “An asteroid like this could kill a lot of people,” he told The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur. “This one is one…
Bill Nye warns fiscal cliff science cuts ‘will take the wind out of our sails’
Appearing Monday night on Current TV, “science guy” Bill Nye warned that cuts to science and research funding could harm job growth in the United States. “What makes the U.S. economy what it is is innovation — this tradition of doing new things or of ingenuity,” he told host Jennifer…
Bill Nye: GOPers disbelieving evolution ‘betrays the best use of our brains’
Bill Nye, he of the popular 90s science education TV show, continued Saturday to question the logic of several prominent Republican lawmakers who’ve publicly doubted evolution, saying that such a disbelief is profoundly, unreasonably wrong. Appearing on MSNBC, Nye said it made no sense why anyone would argue with evolution…
Bill Nye slams GOP Rep. on science committee: Creationism is ‘not in the national interest’
Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) sits on the House science committee, but Bill Nye doesn’t think he’s much of a science guy. Reacting to a video of Broun dismissing various scientific theories, including the theory of evolution, the longtime children’s television host declared that Broun’s creationist views “are not in the…
Bill Nye to creationists: ‘Question your beliefs’ if they conflict with evolution
Television “science guy” Bill Nye found himself at the epicenter of some controversy in the Christian blogosphere recently, but he’s sticking to his guns, telling The Associated Press on Monday: “If [evolution] conflicts with your beliefs, I strongly feel you should question your beliefs.” Nye, 56, gave the interview in…
Creation Museum founder decries ‘vicious secularist attack’ after criticizing Bill Nye
In a video uploaded to YouTube on Thursday, Creation Museum founder Ken Ham complained of “vicious” online attacks by “secularists” after criticizing Bill Nye, commonly know as “Bill Nye the Science Guy.” In late August, Nye urged parents to not teach their children creationism because the United States needed “scientifically…
Bill Nye: Please don’t teach your kids creationism, because it is crazy
Bill Nye, host of the popular nineties children’s show Bill Nye the Science Guy, is warning parents to not teach their children creationism because, he says, it does them a disservice by undermining their scientific understanding and development. In a short video for Big Think, Nye says that despite being…
Science guy Bill Nye endorses President Obama
Children’s television host Bill Nye, better known as “Bill Nye the Science Guy,” has formally endorsed President Barack Obama for reelection in 2012. Appearing at a press conference this week with Rep. Rob Andrews (D-NJ) at the Seacoast Science Center, Nye told a reporter for Foster’s Daily Democrat that the…
Bill Nye to CNN: ‘The two sides aren’t equal’ on climate change
Science educator Bill Nye on Monday told CNN that they weren’t doing the public any favors by giving climate change deniers equal airtime because “the two sides aren’t equal.” “There are a couple of things that you can’t really dispute,” Nye explained to CNN’s Carol Costello. “Sixteen of the last…
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