(January 5, 2016 at 11:47 am)excitedpenguin Wrote:(January 4, 2016 at 8:34 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I'm not making a claim (and, if I were, it isn't all that extraordinary).
Back to my earlier point. How do you KNOW that what your watching on telly is correct? You said Cosmos corrects history, for example. Well, how do you know? Have you verified the accounts of history presented on the show with other sources?
The reason I'm asking is that you mentioned that your resistance to accepting something simply because it has been told to you is one of the reasons you're not a theist. Well, are you accepting what is told to you on Cosmos?
Boru
Brian, no offense, but you're being a little unreasonable here. A show of this sort, with this much attention, one could easily find out if they put inaccuracies in the script. And they actually did some of the times, but it's only during the animations of certain historical figures, and those are too minor to pay mind to.
You're missing my point (to be fair, I don't think I made it all that well).
Absolutely, one can locate inaccuracies, I'm simply inquiring if Kitan was making the effort to do that. If you object to being expected to believe things that are 'told' to you, why wouldn't you object to believing something simply because NDGT told it to you? Don't get me wrong - I think the world of Dr. Tyson. But I think there's sort of a dichotomy here.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
