In the clip, Nye praises the United States for its contribution to technological innovation, but says that the denial of evolution is for dead brained moron witch doctors..
Here are these ancient dinosaur bones or fossils, here is radioactivity, here are distant stars that are just like our star but they're at a different point in their lifecycle. The idea of deep time, of this billions of years, explains so much of the world around us. If you try to ignore that, your world view just becomes crazy, just untenable, itself inconsistent," he said.
Nye then goes on to urge adults not to deny the teaching of evolution to young people.
"And I say to these moronic grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in
your Tooth Fairy world, in YOUR MORONIC 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. We need scientifically literate voters and
taxpayers for the future. We need people that can - we need engineers
that can build stuff, solve problems.
"It's just really a hard thing, it's really a hard thing. You know, in
another couple of centuries that world view, I'm sure, will be, it just
won't exist. There's no evidence for it."
ABC News
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