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Neil Degrass Tyson is Agnostic
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Neil Degrass Tyson is Agnostic
September 4, 2013 at 6:33 pm
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I would be a televangelist....but I have too much of a soul.
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RE: Neil Degrass Tyson is Agnostic
September 4, 2013 at 6:52 pm
There wouldn't be a need for the term "atheist" if people didnt keep claiming that there's some kind of invisible sky daddy.
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RE: Neil Degrass Tyson is Agnostic
September 4, 2013 at 7:18 pm
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RE: Neil Degrass Tyson is Agnostic
September 4, 2013 at 7:37 pm
He's not just an agnostic. He is also an atheist, no matter if he wants to avoid that term or not.

Belief is the psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be true.

To hold the premise that a god exists to be true is theism. If one does not hold the premise that a god exist to be true, they are an atheist.

I'll bet a years salary that Neil Degrass Tyson does not hold that the premise that a god exists to be true. And therefore, no matter what he may call himself, he is an atheist.

You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
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RE: Neil Degrass Tyson is Agnostic
September 4, 2013 at 8:12 pm (This post was last modified: September 4, 2013 at 8:18 pm by bennyboy.)
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RE: Neil Degrass Tyson is Agnostic
September 4, 2013 at 8:14 pm (This post was last modified: September 4, 2013 at 8:16 pm by Kitan Etos.)
I have always viewed agnostics as fence sitters, individuals too wimpy to identify one way or the other.
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RE: Neil Degrass Tyson is Agnostic
September 4, 2013 at 8:46 pm (This post was last modified: September 4, 2013 at 8:47 pm by Simon Moon.)

You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
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RE: Neil Degrass Tyson is Agnostic
September 4, 2013 at 8:48 pm (This post was last modified: September 4, 2013 at 8:49 pm by Jackalope.)
(September 4, 2013 at 8:14 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: I have always viewed agnostics as fence sitters, individuals too wimpy to identify one way or the other.

Damn, its a good thing I identify as atheist first and agnostic second. Wouldn't want anyone to thing I'm a namby pamby fence sitter.

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RE: Neil Degrass Tyson is Agnostic
September 4, 2013 at 9:19 pm
Given Dr. Tyson's outspoken viewpoints on the invalidity of unfalsifiable assertions, he's an agnostic mostly because I think he doesn't really care much about religion and taking a stance would be a distraction.

I do know that he's rather insistent on being referred to as agnostic. Whatever he chooses to call himself, he'd make an amazing atheist.
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RE: Neil Degrass Tyson is Agnostic
September 5, 2013 at 2:54 am
Don't care ... Mr N. deGrasse Tyson an amazingly nice astrophysicist
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