May 21, 2015
Bill Nye
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When Ma Nature means business, stuff happens on a stupendously colossal scale. And Bill Nye the Science Guy wants Rutgers graduates to worry about a 0.4ºC warming over thirty years? Feugh.
The Science Guy then passed on from the dubiously alarmist to the batshit barmy.
There really is no such thing as race. We are one species … We all come from Africa.
Where does one start with that? Perhaps by asserting that: “There is no such thing as states. We are one country.”
The climatological equivalent of saying there is no such thing as race would be saying that there is no such thing as weather. Of course there is such a thing as race. We can perceive race with at least three of our five senses, and read it off from the genome. We tick boxes for it on government forms: I ticked such a box for the ATF just this morning when buying a gun.
This is the Science Guy? The foundational text of modern biology bears the title On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life. Is biology not a science?
Darwin said that populations of a species long separated from each other will diverge in their biological characteristics, forming races. If the separation goes on long enough, any surviving races will diverge all the way to separate species. Was Ol” Chuck wrong about that, Mr. Science Guy?
“We are one species”? Rottweilers and toy poodles are races within one species, a species much newer than ours; yet they differ mightily, not only in appearance but also”gasp!“in behavior, intelligence, and personality.
“We all came from Africa”? Some way further back we all came from the ocean. Biology worked its slow magic and, look!”I am not a mackerel.
America’s designated Science Guy? I await the phone call from Sports Illustrated.
