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🗓️ 11 July 2016
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0:00.0 | Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in. |
0:05.8 | Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years. |
0:11.0 | Yacold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program. |
0:19.6 | To learn more about Yachtolt, visit yawcult.co.j.p. |
0:23.9 | That's y-A-K-U-L-T dot-C-O-J-P. |
0:28.4 | When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on YacL. |
0:33.5 | This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science. |
0:37.2 | I'm Steve Merski. Got a minute? |
0:40.0 | So what does rafting down the Grand Canyon have to do with science education? |
0:44.2 | Anne Reed, former research biologist and current executive director of the National Center for |
0:50.5 | Science Education. She spoke to me July 7th at the Fern Glen Canyon campsite, |
0:55.6 | the morning of our penultimate day rafting down the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. |
1:00.4 | Well, for NCSE, it's one of the most powerful places on the earth to show the difference |
1:06.0 | between religious thinking and scientific thinking, because for a very small minority of Christians |
1:12.2 | who believe the Earth is 6,000 years old, the Grand Canyon is the best evidence they have of Noah's |
1:17.1 | flood. |
1:17.9 | Creationists run multiple raft trips down the Colorado each year. A website touting some says |
1:23.8 | the trips, quote, will encourage your faith as we reveal the truth of God's creation |
1:28.9 | found in this gigantic remnant of the biblical flood, end quote, which creationists believe |
1:35.5 | occurred some 4,400 years ago. And of course, scientists of many, many different sub-disciplines |
1:41.4 | have figured out that the canyon is much older than that. |
1:45.1 | There's the rocks, there's the biology, there's the hydrology. |
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