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That the difference between 13 billion and 8 billion - or even *1* billion - years is next to nothing in the grand scheme of things.
Neil deGrasse Tyson has a beautiful byte that he uses frequently at lectures. I don't think I can find a snippet, but he had a lecture at the University of Washington which is over two hours long where he discussed several of these things, along with the widening tech gap between the USA and countries like Brazil, Japan, and China. It's a great lecture; I have it saved on my hard drive :-) And while he's remarkably less caustic than any other public-speaking scientist I know of (I'm looking at YOU, Richard Dawkins), he does get in the occasional shot at religion, although I don't remember if this one had very much of that in it...I think it didn't.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp6cnp1kZBY