Friendly reminder: StarTalk

[Exian]

Yeah, he (and crew) probably figure they are reaching more and new people, so they're recycling material.

I do think he could use segments to break it up a little.

[Alex K]

I just listened to the "Physics of Interstellar" one. I love me some Neil Tyson and we all like listening to him talk, but FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, let your awesome guests speak every once in a while as well! They are a famous director and a professor of cosmology, how about letting them say something beyond "Yes, that's right Mr. Tyson"? Are you afraid that you won't get to say all the smart things you had prepared, or did fucking Christopher Nolan really only say five words in that half hour conversation?!

[Secular Elf]

I was flipping channels last night and caught the last 15 minutes of the Takei interview. Cool new show, I really like deGrasse Tyson. There was another hour show after that with Jimmy Carter and talking about parasites. Carter's project entails exterminating the Round Worm parasite. It is getting quite close to being eradicated, and it is one nasty critter.

[Mudhammam]

I think the Dawkins episode, with the Jesuit priest, was the best one thus far.

[Fake Messiah]

I think the Dawkins episode, with the Jesuit priest, was the best one thus far.

Why do you say that?
I just listened to this episode yesterday and thought it was awful. DeGrasse really let that Jesuit asshole unnecessarily get away with bullshit. Like that Jesuit asshole said he firmly believes in evolution and that can't be true, because any serious Catholic can't claim he believes in evolution because committing Adam, Rib-Woman and Talking Snake just kills the sin that all Christianity revolves around. Dawkins already established in his documentaries that Xtians, when pressed, will try to go around this question and as Dawkins says "Have their cake and eat it too", because to them it is a "white" lie to lure people into submitting to their idiotic worldviews and these people should not be cut any slacks since their stupidity really undermines our civilization and well-being.

[Clueless Morgan]

I've been watching.

It doesn't hold my attention. I have been listening to the StarTalk podcast for a while, and he seems to reuse a lot of that material.

I'll be interesting to see Dawkins next week, though.

I listen to the podcast somewhat regularly (unless there's an episode with a title that doesn't interest me).  I just finished the two Bill Nye GMO episodes and the Dawkins/Jesuit episode.

I think the Dawkins episode, with the Jesuit priest, was the best one thus far.

I'm quite partial to the zombie episodes and the disease/pandemic episode myself.  My friend suggested one with a "ghost hunter" which I need to go back through and find in the old episodes.

I think the Dawkins episode, with the Jesuit priest, was the best one thus far.

Why do you say that?
I just listened to this episode yesterday and thought it was awful. DeGrasse really let that Jesuit asshole unnecessarily get away with bullshit. Like that Jesuit asshole said he firmly believes in evolution and that can't be true, because any serious Catholic can't claim he believes in evolution because committing Adam, Rib-Woman and Talking Snake just kills the sin that all Christianity revolves around. Dawkins already established in his documentaries that Xtians, when pressed, will try to go around this question and as Dawkins says "Have their cake and eat it too", because to them it is a "white" lie to lure people into submitting to their idiotic worldviews and these people should not be cut any slacks since their stupidity really undermines our civilization and well-being.

I, too, was really irritated with how, for lack of a better term, reverent Tyson and Eugene got when the Jesuit guy said some sort of "Gotcha!" statement like "Maybe you're not supposed to understand God..."  Well, you know what, Jesuit guy?  If this god is real and is going to make my afterlife contingent upon whether or not I believe in it, I better fucking well understand it, and it had better manifest itself in some more tangible way than a feeling of connectedness with the universe.  Fuck that guy.

(He really pissed me off.)

On the other hand, I was thinking of sharing it with my Mormon penpal and see how many of his "Gotcha!" questions she turns back on me.  That should be fun.

[AFTT47]

Like that Jesuit asshole said he firmly believes in evolution and that can't be true, because any serious Catholic can't claim he believes in evolution because committing Adam, Rib-Woman and Talking Snake just kills the sin that all Christianity revolves around.

Don't tell other people what they believe. It's ridiculous to think you have greater knowledge of what's in a person's head than the person himself. We (rightfully) jump all over Christians when they do that to us. Don't make us hypocrites by doing the same thing to them.

[Fake Messiah]

Don't tell other people what they believe. It's ridiculous to think you have greater knowledge of what's in a person's head than the person himself. We (rightfully) jump all over Christians when they do that to us. Don't make us hypocrites by doing the same thing to them.

Hey I'm just stating the logical because if you truly understand evolution then you know Adam and Eve could not be literally true, for evolutionary genetics had shown that the population of modern humans was always much larger than two. But deGrasse didn't probe him at all, just like near the end deGrasse said that Dawkins said if he met god in afterlife he would tell him that He created the world in which there was no trace of his existence, to which scumbag Jesuit replied that god would answer him "So that people could have a little faith." - Oh goody!! So when God kills million people in an earthquake it's because he wants to test my faith in him, just like when he gives a newborn baby a leukemia. Maybe that could make sense if to some people when they look at other children, but if your kid got so sick then it wouldn't make that sense. But then the argument is that it's a good thing when you die because you go to paradise which really reaches the limits of insanity. This is truly something that was driving people for many millennia that when someone died people would kill themselves in order to follow him to the "next" world.

[Lemonvariable72]

You guys still have cable? Fucking cavemen. 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Uh...oh.  Same time as The Daily Show.

Someone doesn't have Uverse.