Posted on 10/03/2014 8:45:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Neil deGrasse Tyson faked a Bush quote and belatedly apologized for it after the resulting controversy spilled into the Washington Post. But true to Tysonism, his apology consisted of various empty profundities and self-promotion climaxing in…
I will still mention Islamic Extremists flying planes into buildings in the 21st century. I will still contrast it with the Golden Age of Islam a millennium earlier. And I will still mention the President’s quote. But instead, I will be the one contrasting what actually happened in the world with what the Bible says: The Arabs named the stars, not God.
Tyson is free to believe what he likes about religion, but plenty of cultures have named the stars. The Chinese were far better astronomers than the Arabs. The Aztecs were decent at it. Hindu and Greek science was the source of much of the Arab science of the so-called Golden Age of Islam. And the Jews, whose scripture was misquoted by Tyson, were decent astronomers too.
When Tyson says that the Arabs named the stars, he means that the game of broken telephone played from Greece to India to Arabia to Europe led to Arab star names being used in the West.
Culture is destiny which is why there’s an Indian orbiter around Mars and Muslim suicide bombers across the Earth.
Plenty of ancient cultures tracked the stars for reasons of season and superstition. The science that Tyson pretends to be a rational exponent of was, in this case, based on cultures that thought that the stars were deities, had magic powers or controlled fate.
When Jewish scripture identifies G-d as the Namer of the stars, the point isn’t classification, it’s to describe the stars as an organic part of the Creation under a Supreme Creator, rather than independent entities.
Neil deGrasse Tyson and his fanboys would sneer at such a sentiment and yet the Arab astronomers he fawns over were quite fascinated by astrology. They believed the very same notion that Jewish scripture had been attacking long before their time.
For example Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, often wrongly credited with “inventing” algebra and is reputed as an astronomer, but as an astrologer. The Banu Musa brothers were the sons of a robber turned astrologer.
The Arab Muslim interest in astronomy was often funded by rulers who thought that they could use astrology to predict the future.
Neil deGrasse Tyson mocks the Bible while championing the astrologers for “naming the stars”.
Hey Neil, explain how stars had names thousands of years prior to Islam existing?
Turn him off!
We know that isn’t true because the Muslims would have named them all Mohammed.
Culture is destiny which is why there’s an Indian orbiter around Mars and Muslim suicide bombers across the Earth.
Money shot...
Actually, anyone with $34.95 can name a star.
https://www.starregister.org/?gclid=CPz_na_tkMECFeJF7AodzHEAlQ&gclid=CPz_na_tkMECFeJF7AodzHEAlQ
Its not surprising that a person so ingnorant of history should be a mouthpiece for the anti-human culture growing up in our midst, no, what pisses me off is that they’re using MY MONEY to fund this sick charade!
Muslim shill. Employed while being black!!
Yes, Neil, you actually can:
It’s ethnocentric that he believes that the English language words for the stars (with their allegedly Arabic origins) are the official names of the stars.
Another money shot:
“Hindu and Greek science was the source of much of the Arab science of the so-called Golden Age of Islam.”
Neil is what the brothers usually call a “jive-turkey”.
And when Neil says, “Do you believe in gravity?”
I reply, “No, but I can use an experiment to prove to myself it exists. I can’t do that with AGW, and that’s what makes AGW a religion, not a science.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson, aka The Drama Queen.
What was his big contribution to science anyways?
What did the Lebanese contribute?
:-)
He was part of the group that downgraded Pluto from planetary status. How’s that for making a worthwhile contribution to science? That laugh line even showed up on “Big Bang Theory”.
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