Listening to the Rocks | StarTalk

the hall of the universe of the Rose
Center for Earth in space I don’t mean
to boast but I’m like buds with Bill Nye
the Science Guy just so just so you know
and he’s taken on this topic in a big
way recently published a book on
evolution and he actually debated at the
director of a creationist Museum where
the entire premise is that there was no
such thing as evolution let’s check in
on Bill Nyes we clear and concise and
religion coexist well sure there are
billions of deeply religious people all
around the world who accept the laws of
nature as we discovered through the
process of science most of the astronomy
that we started with was developed in
the Islamic world about a millennium ago
and the calendar that everybody uses all
over the world was developed by Jesuit
priests heck the Vatican has its own
astronomer for crying out loud but from
time to time you’ll meet people who
insist that the earth is somehow six or
ten thousand years old well that’s just
not possible when we look at rocks like
this we can find where radioactive
elements have replaced non radioactive
elements that have the same chemistry
and we’ve determined that the earth is
about 4.5 4 billion years old not
thousand years old about half of what we
learn we learn informally in places like
this and museums so I encourage you all
to come to a museum like this one and
listen to the rocks hey Bill over here
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