--- title: Bill Nye Explains Evolution With Emoji description: Bill Nye explains evolution using emoji to illustrate the science. canonical: https://time.com/3632214/bill-nye-evolution-emoji/ author: Eliza Berman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-12T20:52:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T21:47:47.000Z og:title: Watch Bill Nye Explain Evolution Using Emoji og:description: Bill Nye explains evolution using emoji to illustrate the science. og:url: https://time.com/3632214/bill-nye-evolution-emoji/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc1f184da254bf83c/69876e7d0b72e329f66dc948/485565301.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2034 og:image:height: 1144 og:image:alt: 2014 Tribeca Film Festival - "An Honest Liar" Premiere og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Bill Nye Explain Evolution Using Emoji twitter:description: Bill Nye explains evolution using emoji to illustrate the science. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc1f184da254bf83c/69876e7d0b72e329f66dc948/485565301.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Bill Nye Explain Evolution Using Emoji > Sponsored content. 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American science educator Bill Nye attends "An Honest Liar" Premiere during the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival at SVA Theater on April 18, 2014 in New York City.Daniel Zuchnik—WireImage  by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Updated: Dec 13, 2023 9:47 PM UTCPublished: Dec 12, 2014 8:52 PM UTC Bill Nye has never been known to teach science the way you learned it in school — unless, of course, your school taught you about water displacement by [spoofing Sir Mix-a-Lot](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvxBOiee3hs). The Science Guy is still infusing fun into science, this time spreading the gospel of evolution with the help of some emoji. In the video, produced by Mashable as part of General Electric’s “Emoji Science” promotion, the major players in evolution get emoji matches: carbon is represented by the diamond, self-replicating molecules are interconnected faces and bacteria are represented by the purple alien monster. But despite his casual demeanor in this video, Nye takes the topic rather seriously. Back in February, he [debated Ken Ham](http://time.com/4511/bill-nye-ken-ham-debate/), a prominent proponent of creationism, in an attempt to win over creationists with the scientific evidence supporting evolution. In November, he released a book called _Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation_, aimed at [exposing young creationists](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/04/science/in-undeniable-bill-nye-speaks-evolution-directly-to-creationists.html) to the scientific principles of evolution. For those who don’t plan to read the book, the video offers a simplified version. “We shook it up with emoji, and then we told a story,” Nye says of the digital age approach to evolution. “The way you might do if you had too many, um, Jell-O shots.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3632214/bill-nye-evolution-emoji/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3632214/bill-nye-evolution-emoji/"},"headline":"Watch Bill Nye Explain Evolution Using Emoji","datePublished":"2014-12-12T20:52:42.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T21:47:47.000Z","description":"“We emojinized it.”","url":"https://time.com/3632214/bill-nye-evolution-emoji/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Evolution","Science topic","emoji"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc1f184da254bf83c/69876e7d0b72e329f66dc948/485565301.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Berman","jobTitle":"Berman is a senior editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc1f184da254bf83c/69876e7d0b72e329f66dc948/485565301.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2014 Tribeca Film Festival - \"An Honest Liar\" Premiere","caption":"2014 Tribeca Film Festival - \"An Honest Liar\" Premiere","creditText":"Daniel Zuchnik—WireImage","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3632214/bill-nye-evolution-emoji/","name":"Watch Bill Nye Explain Evolution Using Emoji"}}]}] ```