Tag: Michael Keas
Zombie History — Using Galileo to Whack Intelligent Design
As a top science journal tells the story, the Galileo myth is relevant only to attack those who challenge the establishment consensus.
Neil Tyson Gets Ancient and Modern Medicine Wrong
Curiously, Tyson has a future, quasi-religious myth of his own to promote: personal immortality through futuristic technology.
Recommended Reading: A Handbook of the Big Bang
Perhaps the publisher, Cambridge University Press, thought the title might help sales with a younger, hipper generation.
From Cosmos: Possible Worlds — “Most Plausible” Creation Myths
Dr. Tyson’s imagination wanders from Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, to the Cambrian explosion.
Clever Move — Cosmos Pushes Pantheism
Easier for slipping it into the public schools! It won’t alarm the parents nearly as much as an all-out siege on theism. Very clever, Dr. Tyson.