Smug creationists hold up signs mocking science.

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20. The answers, in sequence:

1. Yes, Bill Nye is influencing children in a positive way.

2. Yes, I am a little bit scared of a divine creator as he might have a bad character.

3. The Earth having been created mature contradicts all findings in the field of geology and physics.

4. Put down that High School Physics textbook. The Second Law of Thermodynamics only applies to equilibrium-systems. If a system is out of equilibrium because it's open or because an event happens so fast that its ramifications can't reach thermodynamic equilibrium in proper time, then entropy can be destroyed. You are making an argument that was brought up and discarded roughly 100 years ago, smartass.

5. Sunsets happen because Earth is a sphere, revolving around the Sun.

6. See #4.

7. Metaphysics is desperately making up excuses to apply a philosophy to scientific facts.

8. There is no objective meaning to life apart from the basic behavioral laws of procreation inscribed in the code of our DNA. The human is free to decide to do what he wants and to be what he wants, beyond the drive for mere procreation.

9. See #4.

10. You are free to imply that a divine creator was responsible for the Big Bang, but so far there hasn't been found any proof to verify his complicity.

11. Because the existence of aliens is statistically more likely than the existence of God.

12. There is no "official proof" needed to verify the ancestral lineage of homo sapiens, because there is no official institution judging it. And as long as we dig out every single skeleton of every single ancestor of every single human, there will always be doubters who claim that "this" person didn't descend from a more primitive form.

13. Metamorphosis is different from evolution as it only influences the phenotype, not the genotype of a given organism.

14. Look up what "theory" means, then come back.

15. You got it exactly wrong: Science is meant to be observable, testable, repeatable and falsifiable.

16. See #4.

17. I think, the purposes of life are to procreate and to ensure that as many specimens of my species as possible have a life as good as possible.

18. We only have found one "Lucy" because skeletons are only conserved under specific geological circumstances.

19. I can easily believe in the Big Bang because it is the most simple explanation for various astronomical observations. It takes less faith than believing in a divine creator.

20. Go to Yemen, to Sudan, to Central Africa, to Benin, to the slums of Brazil, to Syria, to Libya, to the palestinian refugee-camps in Lebanon and to Afghanistan and tell those people that the world is amazing.

21. The Big Bang wasn't an exploding star. Grab an astronomy-book and come back.

22. Ancestral lineage is not a line but a tree. Homo sapiens represents one branch that happened to evolve some physiological traits that, among others, allowed it to grow a larger brain. Monkeys are a different branch that didn't evolve those traits.