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RE: Cosmos with Neil De Grasse Tyson Premieres Tonight
March 24, 2014 at 7:20 pm
Obvious anti-religion undertones? Wanna point those out? All I saw was facts.
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RE: Cosmos with Neil De Grasse Tyson Premieres Tonight
March 24, 2014 at 7:20 pm
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(March 24, 2014 at 7:16 pm)Heywood Wrote: The show has obvious anti-religion undertones so there is more on the agenda then trying to get people excited by science.
It doesn't have anti-religion undertones.
It has "don't pretend to know what you don't know" undertones, and religion just happens to be a subset of that.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: Cosmos with Neil De Grasse Tyson Premieres Tonight
March 24, 2014 at 7:23 pm
The show is about science.
And how it has successfully and consistently dismantled many many superstitious notions created by the ignorant and perpetuated by the lazy.
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RE: Cosmos with Neil De Grasse Tyson Premieres Tonight
March 24, 2014 at 7:30 pm
If the science presented in the show puts creationists on edge, then that's their own damn fault for believing in and perpetuating false notions for so long.
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RE: Cosmos with Neil De Grasse Tyson Premieres Tonight
March 24, 2014 at 7:45 pm
(March 24, 2014 at 7:36 pm)Heywood Wrote: Are you suggesting facts cannot be used to convey an anti-religious message?
I think he's saying that it's not science's fault that facts convey what you perceive to be an anti-religious message.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell