Tag: Neil deGrasse Tyson
Booklist — Meyer Offers “New Discoveries to Undermine” Science Atheists
Ha, coming from the American Library Association, the dart aimed at “anti-design theorists” Dawkins, Tyson, Nye is satisfying.
“Simulation Hypothesis” and Star Trek — Intelligent Design by Another Name
The universe may be intelligently designed and yet not be a simulation. The theory of intelligent design does not rise or fall with the simulation hypothesis.
Copernican Revolution Promoted Man’s Place in the Cosmos
In Copernicus’ day, the Earth was thought to be at the bottom of the universe, the “sump” where all the filth collected.
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.
From Cosmos: Possible Worlds — “Most Plausible” Creation Myths
Dr. Tyson’s imagination wanders from Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, to the Cambrian explosion.