The kid is going places

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   Rev. BigDumbChimp

   7 March 2013 at 7:01 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   That kid is poised, informed and can make a point. Maybe the future isn’t so dull.

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   Jeremy Shaffer

   7 March 2013 at 7:44 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   I watched that episode tis past weekend. The Kopplin interview was good and having Susan Jacoby following up was awesome.

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   Bill Openthalt

   7 March 2013 at 9:31 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Let’s hope even more teenagers rise up to express themselves.

   PZ, you inveterate sexist, why should this be a male-only affair :) ?

   Apologies – a dirty mind is a terrible thing to waste.

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   SC (Salty Current), OM

   7 March 2013 at 9:36 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   The whole show was good.

   I didn’t like Kopplin’s response when Moyers suggested that theistic evolution sounds like a form of creationism. Moyers’ sense was correct – teleology is not a negligible addition to evolution.

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   Lynna, OM

   7 March 2013 at 9:56 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   I think I’ll send this clip to my niece. She is still in elementary school, but is already fighting stupidity that all too often comes from her teachers.

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   tsraveling

   7 March 2013 at 1:18 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   I hope I get a chance to vote for this kid one day.

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   frog

   7 March 2013 at 2:06 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Zack Kopplin, at the end of the interview: “I don’t think it’s a choice. I think it’s something that has to be done, and I’m the one who’s in the right position to do it, so I’m gonna do it.”

   –>Well said! This kid rolled an 18 in WIS.

   The older I get, the more I discover people I admire who are not just younger than me, but A LOT younger than me. (Yes, there’s a logic there.) On the one hand it’s a little disconcerting and a trifle embarrassing; on the other hand, it makes me feel so much better about the world and its prospects for the future.