isn't the point then, Rayton is a cry for help from Bill Nye? as in, he wants the world's best experts on silicon and solar to come together and work 24/7 on this problem.
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He also provided a platform to legitimize creationism by debating it as if it is a valid explanation of how the world came to be. I understand the desire to promote debate but I think he fell into the false balance trap. He did a great deal to advance STEM in the millennial generation which should not be understated but nobody is faultless. He is a great educator but I question if he really knows how best to use his…
You're just as far in the opposite direction, though. When people have strange beliefs, the best way to deal with the situation is usually to talk to them on the same level, as grownups with valid beliefs. Otherwise you change no one's mind. If we dig through your brain, we'd probably turn up a few questionable beliefs of your own. Most people just aren't that transparent.
Ardent creationists are not just people with strange beliefs. They are people who have built their lives around promoting and defending harmfully bad ideas.
If you have evidence that debating them helps, I look forward to seeing it. But from what I've seen, a credible person sharing a stage with a loon elevates the loon. Treating nonsense as sense devalues sense.
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#63Not surprising. Bill Nye is a business man not a scientist.
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#64Regarding Bill Nye, this makes me sad. He really was instrumental in making science fun and exciting when I was young. In his post TV life he's become just another political idealogue. Even doing as far as censuring[1] his own TV show when the science contradicts his social justice message. Now it seems he's coming to normal people with an ax to grind. It's hard to see him not profiting from this endeavor. 1. https:/…
There is a spectrum of gender, it's just that 99.99%+ of the population fits into male or female, that doesn't mean that the other combinations don't exist however. And of course there are more combinations than XY and XX, that's been known since like the 1950s! They're rare, but not absent. Transgender is more complicated, but there are initial signs (difference in diffusibility of brain matter in mri scans and effe…
My mind was changed on this. I used to believe it was simple, you're XX or you're XY. Even two people with the same genes could be quite different if those genes are expressed differently.
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There is a spectrum of gender, it's just that 99.99%+ of the population fits into male or female, that doesn't mean that the other combinations don't exist however. And of course there are more combinations than XY and XX, that's been known since like the 1950s! They're rare, but not absent. Transgender is more complicated, but there are initial signs (difference in diffusibility of brain matter in mri scans and effe…
My mind was changed on this. I used to believe it was simple, you're XX or you're XY. Even two people with the same genes could be quite different if those genes are expressed differently.
Exactly, i used to be of the same mindset, turns out biology isn't that simple.