(May 13, 2015 at 8:37 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: I've been watching.
It doesn't hold my attention. I have been listening to the StarTalk podcast for a while, and he seems to reuse a lot of that material.
I'll be interesting to see Dawkins next week, though.
I listen to the podcast somewhat regularly (unless there's an episode with a title that doesn't interest me). I just finished the two Bill Nye GMO episodes and the Dawkins/Jesuit episode.
(May 31, 2015 at 5:17 am)Nestor Wrote: I think the Dawkins episode, with the Jesuit priest, was the best one thus far.
I'm quite partial to the zombie episodes and the disease/pandemic episode myself. My friend suggested one with a "ghost hunter" which I need to go back through and find in the old episodes.
(July 28, 2015 at 4:35 am)Fake Messiah Wrote:(May 31, 2015 at 5:17 am)Nestor Wrote: I think the Dawkins episode, with the Jesuit priest, was the best one thus far.Why do you say that?
I just listened to this episode yesterday and thought it was awful. DeGrasse really let that Jesuit asshole unnecessarily get away with bullshit. Like that Jesuit asshole said he firmly believes in evolution and that can't be true, because any serious Catholic can't claim he believes in evolution because committing Adam, Rib-Woman and Talking Snake just kills the sin that all Christianity revolves around. Dawkins already established in his documentaries that Xtians, when pressed, will try to go around this question and as Dawkins says "Have their cake and eat it too", because to them it is a "white" lie to lure people into submitting to their idiotic worldviews and these people should not be cut any slacks since their stupidity really undermines our civilization and well-being.
I, too, was really irritated with how, for lack of a better term, reverent Tyson and Eugene got when the Jesuit guy said some sort of "Gotcha!" statement like "Maybe you're not supposed to understand God..." Well, you know what, Jesuit guy? If this god is real and is going to make my afterlife contingent upon whether or not I believe in it, I better fucking well understand it, and it had better manifest itself in some more tangible way than a feeling of connectedness with the universe. Fuck that guy.
(He really pissed me off.)
On the other hand, I was thinking of sharing it with my Mormon penpal and see how many of his "Gotcha!" questions she turns back on me. That should be fun.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
