RE: Neil Degrasse Tyson
August 14, 2015 at 5:29 am
(This post was last modified: August 14, 2015 at 5:30 am by Napoléon.)
(August 14, 2015 at 1:20 am)Shuffle Wrote: You have dedicated 8 Months, 2 weeks, 6 days, 1 hour, 8 minutes, and 7 seconds of your life to nothing? Ok.
So he comes onto a forum, how exactly does that make him part of a movement? How do you reach the conclusion he does this for 'nothing' if not being part of a movement?
(August 14, 2015 at 2:47 am)Shuffle Wrote: Calm down. Its ok. We are all fine. Stop getting your panties in a bunch. Geez, I didn't expect so much flak over this. All I was asking was for your opinion on the statements he made, and then I stated my opinions.
You look like the only person with their panties in a twist to be perfectly fair. You asked for opinions and got them. Surely you realise how silly it is to associate everyone who comes on this forum with a 'movement'? People are only pointing that out, because yes, it's a bit silly, and it's also ironic considering you're chastising someone like NDT for being ignorant while displaying a certain level of ignorance yourself.
That said...
As for the OP, I actually somewhat agree. I think identifying as agnostic but shying away from atheism to be a little cowardly and I wasn't enthralled when I saw that video for the first time myself. But NDT is a scientist first and foremost and personally I only pay attention to what he says in the field he has actual expertise in.
On a side note, I've never thought of NDT as being associated with the 'atheist' movement. More with the pro-science and skeptical thinking crowd, but not necessarily atheism.
