'Cosmos' 2nd episode: Neil deGrasse Tyson condescends toward doubters of evolution

March 17, 2014

[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.

[Tallguy]

“For the next 1,000 years we breed dogs in abundance and throw them from the roof of a 5 story building as fast as they mature. Eventually, they will learn to fly or become extinct. Right?”

Or maybe we’ll just have to settle for a Shi-Tzu with an acceptable glide ratio? A “flying squirrel” like pooch?

[waterhill]

am I still here? crap!

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

Here is my plan for that. We'll force evolution to introduce flying dogs. For the next 1,000 years we breed dogs in abundance and throw them from the roof of a 5 story building as fast as they mature. Eventually, they will learn to fly or become extinct. Right?

Isn't that how we got cats? ;-)

[Huskrrrr]

Saw a plug for this show from Obama. Nuff said.

[Aevery_Freeman]

Can the current generation manage to produce one original, unique thought?

Old comic books, old movies and now an old science series.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Kind of crude, and that is wrong. But yeah, Tyson got picked as “dumb token.” These leftists are NOT compassionate... they play the compassionate impulse like any Machiavellian.

[Cyber Liberty]

When I hear it was going to be Tyson, I knew this was likely to be “must-miss TV.” I’ve had him pegged as a racist for years.

[Cyber Liberty]

Another sanctimonious racist.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The cat-dog split is averred by conventional evolutionists to have happened with a beast called Miacis. (It also allegedly gave rise to bear, raccoon, and other such beasts.)

Following the claims of the theory are not the same as believing in it, of course.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Obama does not have much of a mind of his own. We complain about Crimea getting a puppet government. Well the Democrats showed the US how to do it, first.

[Migraine]

Without going through anyone’s complex, arcane labyrinth or wormhole or imaginary alternate universe, I think it best to start with one of the only two bottom lines that can possibly exist concerning the origins of life:
1) there is a supreme intelligence and power, probably eternal, which deliberately made things and balanced them in a systematic way; or
2) rocks, legendarily dumb, probably eternal, can turn into people, all by themselves, given that enough non-caring, ignorant energy is applied to them over unimaginably long periods of time.
Which one sounds more like a fairy tale?

[Diamond]

"Some of the Things That Molecules Do."

Sometime they get together and produce tv shows that are offensive, condescending, and smarmy to other concatenations of molecules?

[Cyber Liberty]

I wouldn’t stand too close to the potty mouth.

[Phlyer]

I read about the series in Sky and Telescope. There are one-paragraph summaries of each episode, and one of the upcoming ones is about global warming.

Then, in the opening episode (which I did watch) they were smugly patting themselves about using the scientific method, basing conclusions on objective data, and always questioning everything.

In the episode itself they spent ten minutes on the poor plight of someone who dared to question the dogma of the church - even though they admitted in the episode that he had no proof for his theory. In essence, it was his (Bruni's) opinion against others. And it also showed Bruni (in animation) turning away from the cross while they said that Bruni was always a man of Christian faith - he just believed that God had created a bigger universe than the 'consensus' of the day. So even beyond their biased selection of a non-scientific (meaning, no real data on either side) focus for a major portion of the episode just so they could take a shot at the church, they lied in what the protagonist believed.

So, smugly claiming to use the scientific method when they do not, selecting for a major focus in the first episode a non-scientific argument in which they falsely showed the 'good guy' turning away from the cross in disgust, and an upcoming episode that is promised to be propaganda on the sacred dogma of global warming.

So, I watched the first one but I won't be watching the others.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Lol!

[lurk]

Pity the man who calls himself wise.