It’s Zack Kopplin! Getting interviewed by Bill Moyers!
Let’s hope even more teenagers rise up to express themselves.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
It’s Zack Kopplin! Getting interviewed by Bill Moyers!
Let’s hope even more teenagers rise up to express themselves.
That kid is poised, informed and can make a point. Maybe the future isn’t so dull.
I watched that episode tis past weekend. The Kopplin interview was good and having Susan Jacoby following up was awesome.
PZ, you inveterate sexist, why should this be a male-only affair :) ?
Apologies – a dirty mind is a terrible thing to waste.
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.
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.
I hope I get a chance to vote for this kid one day.
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.