Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation

by Bill Nye

Altruism is not a moral or religious ideal, no matter what some people might tell you. It is an essential, biological part of who or what we are as a species.

I hope it gives some of us pause for thought to realize that fertilized eggs pass right through women into the environment all the time. Put bluntly, un-gastrulated fertilized eggs become sewage. Are the women who produced these cells to be prosecuted for violating some church-driven law? Are they to be tried for involuntary infanticide? What about their husbands, whose sperm perhaps were not active enough to git ’er done? The science is clear; certain church-derived ethics reflect an understanding that’s murky at best and just plain ignorant at worst. Perhaps we should be prosecuting people who espouse these views for undermining our economy, as we will surely send medical patients overseas to spend enormous sums of money elsewhere, to places where certain egg-based treatments are available.