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Television Isn't Inherently Good Or Bad. You Go To A Bookstore, There Are How Many Thousands Of Books, But How Many Of Those Do You Want? Five? Television's The Same Way. If You're Going To Show People Stuff, Television Is The Way To Go. Words And Pictures Show Things.

Everybody Remembers Numbers And Computers Remember Numbers. People Remember Procedures And Computers Certainly Remember Procedures. But The Other Thing That's Still Important Is That Your Perception As A Human Is Affected Subtly By All This Stuff That You Can't Quite Articulate. You Run Your Life According To All This Stuff That's Happened To You. All Of Your Memories Affect Everything You Do Whereas With A Computer, There's Adaptive Software And Things, But It's More Literal.

The Thing About A Theory In Science Is It Allows You Make Predictions. Evolutionary Theory Allows Us To Predict What Apples Will Taste Good Next Harvest.

How Did We Let An Ideological Resistance To Inquiry Become Such A Prominent Part Of Our Society?

I Understand That You Take The Bible, As Written In English, Translated Many Many Times Over The Last Three Millennia As To Be A More Accurate, More Reasonable Assessment Of The Natural Laws We See Around Us Than What I And Everybody In Here Can Observe. That, To Me, Is Unsettling.