Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson: God Didn’t Name the Stars, Muslims Did

FrontPage Mag ^ | 10/03/2014 | Daniel Greenfield

[Arm_Bears]

Affirmative Action Science.

[Usagi_yo]

All their cedar.

[wally_bert]

I heard an ad for that old scam just this morning. Been a few years since I heard it.

[BenLurkin]

I wonder if he realizes that the “Golden Age of Islam” was in reality the dying gasps of the Hellenistic world.

[stratboy]

He was part of the group that downgraded Pluto from planetary status.

I never knew that. If that's the case, then screw him and his boring Cosmos redo.

[Usagi_yo]

I don’t know, but Director of the Hayden Planetarium doesn’t sound like that heavy of a job. I mean he’s probably a great guy and isn’t that bad in explaining things, though he’s a bit sophomoric in a dumb kinda way rather than say sophomoric in a fun sort of way as Carl Sagan, or sophomoric in a genius way as in Richard Feynman, or the sophomoric in the WTF? way from Stephen Hawking.

In other words it’s his skin color for the field of intellect he’s followed that makes him stand out much, like a white boy being an NBA Shooting guard or point guard.

[ealgeone]

He's missing the real question. It's not who named the stars....

It is Who created the stars?

In the beginning, God created.....

[circlecity]

"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.”

Yep. The scientific method requires some degree of predictability. Replicable results based on real world observation and collection of data. Newton demonstrated an incredible degree of predictability vis a vis his conception of gravity. AGW has demonstrated NO degree of predictability. The only thing we can predict is that their predictions will be predictably wrong.

[DugwayDuke]

“I heard an ad for that old scam just this morning. Been a few years since I heard it.”

I heard it first back in the early 80’s. Still, it’s a rather inventive scam.

But, back on topic, if just shows how out of place deGrasse Tyson is if he thinks Muslims named the stars when obviously this proves this isn’t the case.

[Vinnie]

He was part of the group that downgraded Pluto from planetary status.

So, what is it? An asteroid with 5 moons?

[mikrofon]

“He counts the number of the stars;
He calls them all by name.”

[Vinnie]

He was part of the group that downgraded Pluto from planetary status.

So, what is it? An asteroid with 5 moons?

[The Cajun]

Full of himself much he is.

[Verginius Rufus]

Yes, many of the star names currently used are either Arabic or corruptions of Arabic names, because the West got Ptolemy’s great work via the Arabs, but some of the brightest have Greek or Roman names, including Sirius, Canopus, Arcturus, Capella, Procyon, Spica, Antares, Pollux, Regulus, and Castor.

[X Fretensis]

You are correct. Showing my age, forty years ago I was taught how to use a sextant and the star tables to navigate at sea. In celestial navigation pubs, 28% of the 58 navigational stars had not Arabic names. The balance or 72% had names of Arabic origin.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks SeekAndFind. Sidebars:

• Neil DeGrasse Tyson: Just Trust Me On Those Things I Said, OK?

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[rdl6989]

Chinese, Egyptian and other ancient cultures had names for the stars before the false prophet Moe ever existed.

[windsorknot]

Methinks that Neil needs to stay away from deGrasse.

[onedoug]

Then why maintain any social order? Just into the void with no meaning, eh?

IMHO, the structure and complexity of spacetime did not come about without a cause. Moreoever, the orderliness of the universe, and the derivation of the initial function value that we discovered as mathematics, speak much more deeply to me than this incredulous Carl Sagan impersonator.

[Pecos]

Pluto was originally named for the Roman god of the underworld, but maybe the astronomers confused it with the Disney dog of the same name. ;-)