Bill Nye, oft remembered as Bill Nye the Science Guy on his educational television series, has stirred up some controversy in recent comments about evolution denial and education on a video for BigThink. The video was posted in March but has recently gone viral on Youtube. He tells us grownups that if we want to deny evolution, “That’s fine but don’t make your kids do it because we need them. We need scientifically literate voters and tax papers for the future.”
In a later interview on CNN, Nye clarified his point by saying that, “I emphasize again in that video I was talking the use of tax dollars for science education. This is a very important thing if we want to have jobs, if we want the United States to be the world leader, to the innovator, to come up with new inventions.”
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