(April 12, 2015 at 5:11 pm)Polaris Wrote: Tyson comes off as a fraud. I don't believe for one second Carl Sagan had any interaction with him, let alone having any faith in him. I would have much rather had Michio Kaku as the host for the Cosmos reboot as he seems someone much more knowledgeable.
Really? What leads you to think that the story about NdT and Sagan is false? The book he has signed seems to be genuine. And what leads you to think that NdT isn't knowledgeable enough to host Cosmos?
Michio Kaku is certainly knowledgeable, and is certainly passionate about cosmology. I don't know that he would inspire the wonder that NdT is capable of inspiring, which is really what Cosmos is all about.
It is pretty clear that NdT is an agnostic atheist. He doesn't believe any god claims---he's said that outright. He is open to evidence; he won't take a definitive stance. It's much the same for most of us here.
"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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