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Alfred Eisenstaedt: View of Los Angeles by night from the hills above city. 1936

If your religion is inconsistent with science, consider tempering your beliefs. For me, the claims of creationism are completely unreasonable.” “Judge Jones in Dover, Pennsylvania, used the expression “breathtaking inanity,” meaning so empty, so silly that it took his breath away. The age of the Earth is very close to 4.54 billion years rather than a millionth of that time. The idea that fossils were buried in the Earth by some hidden deity to test ones faith is completely unsatisfactory. We can observe the processes of evolution, physics and especially geology everywhere every day. To deny what I see around me is unacceptable to me. Science is the acceptance of what you observe and seeking the natural laws that cause these effects.

Bill Nye, interview with The Huffington Post (via thedragoninmygarage)

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William K Hartmann

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*upper middle class fucker voice* But you have [one nice thing] so how are you poor

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Geographers Erle Ellis and Navin Ramankutty argue we are no longer disturbing natural ecosystems. Instead, we now live in “human systems with natural ecosystems embedded within them.” The long-held barriers between nature and culture are breaking down. It’s no longer us against “Nature.” Instead, it’s we who decide what nature is and what it will be.

Paul J. Crutzen and Christian Schwägerl, Living in the Anthropocene:Toward a New Global Ethos (via inthenoosphere)