That’s why I won’t watch it...as fascinated about space as I am...I will not give my time to someone who marginalizes my beliefs.
I would normally watch this sort of thing but after seeing an interview with the makers I changed my mind.
There are lots of science minded Christians and going out of their way to insult us should hurt.
Watched it for about 15 minutes the other night. It stinks.
Resurrection is not bad. Not sure how far they can stretch the story but not horrible.
We turned it off after six minutes. Dumbed-down, condescending, Common Core crap. The host is vile. Carl Sagan flopped out of his grave while it was being shown.
Tyson is not the great mind he thinks he is, and he is too condescending.
He would do better hosting a kids show
I understand the Catholic Church has been very pro-science. Didn’t a priest coin the “Big Bang”?
I watched last night with my son and debunked the parts of the show that were smarmy. Like the statement “Evolution is a FACT”
Yes, they parsed off any theory of Intelligent Design as something some people need to believe “to feel special”.
I also asked him to think about where those NatGeo graphic artist-scientists think the moon Titan got all that oil and fossil fuel - from what fossils?
I hope it fails.
When the goofy Carl Sagan presented Cosmos we were seeing images we had never seen before. But now, after all these years, we’re seeing the same images. Sure, they’re farther away and have different shapes, but the entire universe seems to be made up of cold big rocks and flaming big rocks.
What they’re really looking for is a second planet that has life, because that would be another nail in the Creation narrative. They fawn over every instance of water that “may have been” present on some other empty rock because, for them, all life needs to exist is a little water and billions of years and viola!
Take THAT, America's Funniest Home Videos!
episode 1 with zer0 introducing the series, turned me off from the get go.
the first episode with its Catholic bashing from an incident 400 years old(around the time the constitution was written) where Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for supporting geocentrism, ticked me off as there was no caveat about how the RC Church is currently no longer executing nor Luddites.
episode 2 was better...
The best summary criticism I have heard is they devoted 25% of the first show to a non-scientist being killed for being a heretic. No scientific basis for it. Just wanted to spread a debunked story.
Dead to most folks right out the gate.
Excellent news. When they took a hard left turn and started spouting evolution theory as some kind of fact I knew it wouldn’t be long until lights out, ratings-wise.
someone, perhaps the production company head (Seth MacFarlane ), decided to give Tyson bad acting lessons.
he should play it like the scientist he is and can the melodrama....
I watched the first twenty minutes of the first episode. I could not finish, I was getting ill. It had nothing to do with insulting my beliefs, and everything to do with insulting my intelligence.
Offensive, condescending, and smarmy would have been a huge improvement. It was stoopid, confusing, unfocused, hokey, superficial, transcendently glib, juvenilely simplistic, inane and disappointing. I WAITED FORTY YEARS FOR THIS POS!!!!! We have learned SO MUCH MORE about the Cosmos in the last forty years, communications technology and media have advanced so far, and all we get is this stale dog vomit.
A total, complete and utter failure, a disgrace.
I read the puppet was doing the intro.
I knew then it would be a disaster.
Yawn.
Obama does a commercial for this show. All the info I need.