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'Cosmos' 2nd episode: Neil deGrasse Tyson condescends toward doubters of evolution
March 17, 2014

Posted on 03/17/2014 11:17:25 AM PDT by EveningStar

Last night, I watched the second episode of "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" (the reboot of the 1980 series). It was entitled, "Some of the Things That Molecules Do."

One of the things Tyson dealt with in this episode was evolution.

Now, I myself do subscribe to the theory of evolution, but I found Tyson's treatment to be offensive, condescending, and smarmy.

I thought it was an in-your-face chip-on-the-shoulder response against skeptics of evolution.

I thought this was supposed to be a science show, not a political show.

But this is just my opinion. What is your opinion?

If you missed the episode and wish to see it, it will replay on the National Geographic Channel. You can also watch it online at Fox and Hulu.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Education; Religion; Science; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: carlsagan; cosmos; cosmosreboot; creationism; evolution; godsgravesglyphs; neildegrassetyson; ursulathevk; zot
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To: EveningStar

Carl Sagan would be proud.


161 posted on 03/17/2014 5:27:26 PM PDT by DungeonMaster (No one can come to me unless the Father who sent Me draws him.)
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To: TheOldLady

.....and he’s a Texan! He must have seen Wendy Davis and it turned his brain to mush!


162 posted on 03/17/2014 5:29:36 PM PDT by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL Vets, too!l)
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To: EveningStar

Tyson’s a smug a$$hole. his smug cloud rivals clooney’s.


164 posted on 03/17/2014 6:09:54 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: waterhill; 50mm; darkwing104; Arrowhead1952; Darksheare; TheOldLady; Lady Jag; Chode; shibumi; ...

THY SELF-IMMOLATION CAME NOT WITH HONOR, AND
THUS DO I TURN MY BACK UNTO THEE, NEVER TO MEET AGAIN -
UNLESS OF COURSE, THOU DOST RETREAD...

165 posted on 03/17/2014 6:13:00 PM PDT by Old Sarge (TINVOWOOT: There Is No Voting Our Way Out Of This)
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To: CatherineofAragon

“Since 2008-06-25” so, 5-1/2 years. Not exactly in at the onset, but that is still a good amount of time.


166 posted on 03/17/2014 6:45:56 PM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: papertyger

BTW, it’s MEYER and Collins, not Singer. We regret the error.

Language of God for Dr. Collins

Signature in the Cell for Meyer.

Essentially REALLY bright, well-educated life scientists make the rational case for the evidence, role and reality of the Supernatural.

Meyer and Collins have both made Dawkins look childish in debates. Much like Lord Monckton would if Gore would ever debate him.


167 posted on 03/17/2014 6:46:14 PM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: ifinnegan

True, but they also exist in a molecular state.

Splitting hairs, or is it atoms?


168 posted on 03/17/2014 6:47:55 PM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: EveningStar

Comment at tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com

Libs-are-fuktards • 41 minutes ago
The only reason BathhouseBarry appeared
was they told him there was a segment
about Uranus.


169 posted on 03/17/2014 6:48:18 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Old Sarge

Lovely pic of Ursula, Sarge. Very nice.


170 posted on 03/17/2014 6:52:11 PM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: EveningStar

“I thought it was an in-your-face chip-on-the-shoulder response against skeptics of evolution.”

Good way to describe this sort of thing.


171 posted on 03/17/2014 7:28:38 PM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: Col Freeper

Too much green beer?


172 posted on 03/17/2014 7:43:26 PM PDT by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: ifinnegan
I thought most of Tyson's presentation was just fine. However, he made several out of place comments during the evolution part of the program. I agreed with him in substance, but I felt those comments were not in keeping with a science program.
173 posted on 03/17/2014 7:54:38 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Yes. It is not an alternative religious view, but science. It should be presented.


174 posted on 03/17/2014 8:28:14 PM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: Diamond
*snicker!* ..touche'.

175 posted on 03/17/2014 9:04:50 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
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To: Cyber Liberty
serves him right; drinking from a bar, while Freeping..

176 posted on 03/17/2014 9:11:35 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
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To: EveningStar

Ping for later...


177 posted on 03/17/2014 9:16:10 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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To: fr_freak
ALL TV IS POLITICIZED NOW.

Sad but very true. Take a reputable historical book and make a movie of it. make it into a movie changing the meaning entirely. Show the movie then have group read the book, ask them which is true.

Movies are powerful tools for tyrants.

178 posted on 03/17/2014 11:55:50 PM PDT by itsahoot (Voting for RINOs is the same as voting for any other Tyrant.)
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To: Blueflag
BTW, it’s MEYER and Collins, not Singer. We regret the error.

Thanks! Google only yielded Singers, Judy and Phil Collins ;)

179 posted on 03/18/2014 1:10:53 AM PDT by papertyger (if disdain of homosexual behavior is "bigotry," is it any wonder hostility to Islam is "racism?")
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To: ifinnegan
Yes. It is not an alternative religious view, but science. It should be presented.

But it should NOT be presented the way historians make THEIR presentations. Giving the supporting data, to be reviewed, along with the conclusions would be science. This is not science.

This is "history" in another field of study. And given what IS widely known about the history of science, such presentations are the pedagogical equivalent of using "hot girls" to sell beer.

Defending such presentations differs from defending such advertising only in that the latter is shameless while the former is supercilious.

180 posted on 03/18/2014 1:39:10 AM PDT by papertyger (if disdain of homosexual behavior is "bigotry," is it any wonder hostility to Islam is "racism?")
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