Those three words describe Tyson to a "T".
I didn't bother with Ep. 2 and won't see any of the others. A waste of time, really.
You might like what Sultan Knish (Daniel Greenfield) has to say about Tyson...and the left in general.
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-left-is-too-smart-to-fail.html
I had seen DeGrasse Tyson on some other science shows and I have to agree completely with the Sultan about him being a mediocrity. He’s the result of the same american sickness that has given us Maya Angelou as poet laureate and Obama as president. Affirmative action anyone?
But regarding evolution... I was pretty much a believer until I ran into a book a few months ago called “Darwin’s Doubt”. It was truly an eye opener. Stephen Meyer totally dismantles the theory from many different scientific angles. At the end he makes a case for intelligent design, but presented no evidence other than through inference, but was not convincing enough for me, though it definitely raised the possibility.
So right now I’m in limboland - I no longer believe that life evolved Darwin’s way, (though I believe microevolution does occur), and there’s not enough evidence for intelligent design either, so I’m waiting for the evolution of the next theory.
Yup. And add ‘creepy’ to the list. We started to watch it just to see if the second would redeem the first episode. It was worse. I was howling (no pun intended) with ridiculing laughter at the stupid wolves-to-dogs segment. After that we switched over to a movie in our DVD collection: “First Contact” (equally stupid but rightfully under the category of science FICTION).
I watched episode 1 and found it to be, well,great.
I know the great mass of unwashed that lack proper science education will find fault with who knows what, but he made a great presentation.
I recorded the second program and will watch it. My initial impression is that it will provide great science lessons for the home schooled that lack well versed teachers and labs.