(March 24, 2014 at 10:07 pm)Heywood Wrote: Tyson wasn't comparing Halley's prophecy with "any other method". He was comparing it to religious prophecy.So once again, religion gets its own, elevated platform? Is religious prophecy in a different category than "any other method?" Is saying that one thing produces better results than another the same thing as saying that I am 'anti-the second thing'?
(March 24, 2014 at 10:07 pm)Heywood Wrote: I have made all my points. If you don't want to believe this television show doesn't have any anti-religious undertones....have at it. I'm done talking about religious undertones in Cosmos unless someone really makes a compelling counter point.You made points? I must have missed them. I saw a bunch of whinging, but no points.
"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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