{"id":1672,"date":"2012-08-29T21:30:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T01:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1672"},"modified":"2012-08-29T21:30:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T01:30:12","slug":"science-guy-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1672","title":{"rendered":"Science Guy rules!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love Bill Nye the Science Guy. I watched his kid-targeted science show<\/a> all the time (Science Rules!). Now I love the guy even more. He recently did a Big Think interview<\/a> during which he tears into creationism.<\/p>\n

“I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world, that’s completely inconsistent with the world we observe, that’s fine.\u00c2\u00a0 But don’t make your kids do it.\u00c2\u00a0 Because we need them.\u00c2\u00a0 We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Internet is all abuzz about his video and creationists are up in arms over it. So, this post is just a quick shout out from a little corner of the Internet in support of the Science Guy. You Rule!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love Bill Nye the Science Guy. I watched his kid-targeted science show all the time (Science Rules!). Now I love the guy even more. He recently did a Big Think interview during which he tears into creationism. “I say … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-qY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":269,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=269","url_meta":{"origin":1672,"position":0},"title":"Everything I needed to know about physics I learned from Hollywood","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"August 27, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"No, not really. 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