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RE: Cosmos with Neil De Grasse Tyson Premieres Tonight
March 10, 2014 at 5:57 pm
(This post was last modified: March 10, 2014 at 5:59 pm by Napoléon.)
Just watched it. I got the sense it was trying to appeal to a dumbed down audience, or even a religious one at times. Still, pretty good way to pass the hour.
*edit, just read some of the other posts here. I didn't really see it as being anti-religious, if anything I got the opposite sentiment. I actually thought it was trying to be too nice about some of the things the church did to scientists, I thought putting that whole story with Bruno as a cartoon made it seem a little childish. Maybe that's just me who thinks that though.
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RE: Cosmos with Neil De Grasse Tyson Premieres Tonight
March 10, 2014 at 7:14 pm
Nap,
I had the same initial reaction to the cartoon, but thought it was perhaps a way to desensitize what was going on. Or, not try to compete with gore fests like The Passion of the Christ. Or, not have some low production live action sequences as in Downy's The Bible. I was ok with it in the end.
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RE: Cosmos with Neil De Grasse Tyson Premieres Tonight
March 12, 2014 at 3:27 pm
(March 9, 2014 at 11:21 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: I teared up.
At Cosmos - I didn't even click the link Beccs provided. I want to end tonight on a good note.
The comments section provides a nice antidote to that. When an internet site's
comment section is the sane part of the page, you know how batshit insane the article's contents are.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
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RE: Cosmos with Neil De Grasse Tyson Premieres Tonight
March 12, 2014 at 5:27 pm
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
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RE: Cosmos with Neil De Grasse Tyson Premieres Tonight
March 12, 2014 at 6:53 pm
I saw the first episode, and it was awwwwesome.
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RE: Cosmos with Neil De Grasse Tyson Premieres Tonight
March 12, 2014 at 9:56 pm
I am terminally embarrassed that Oklahoma exists.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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