March 1, 2012

Mama, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Deny Evolution

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What’s the Big Idea?

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science, in all of biology. According to Bill Nye, aka the science guy, if grownups want to “deny evolution and live in your world that’s completely inconsistent with everything we observe in the universe, that’s fine, but don’t make your kids do it because we need them.”

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