LOL Creationists Complain Neil deGrasse Tyson's 'Cosmos' Isn't Giving Them Airtime

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Creationists are accusing astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson's reboot of "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" of being scientifically unbalanced because it doesn't represent their beliefs. :lol

"Creationists aren’t even on the radar screen for them, they wouldn’t even consider us plausible at all," D U H !

DeGrasse Tyson was also critiqued for covering global warming and the big bang theory.

an Oklahoma Fox affiliate raised eyebrows last week when it apologized for cutting fifteen seconds from the "Cosmos" premiere, which contained the episode's only reference to evolution, and blamed it on an "operator error." :lol fucking Okie redneck Christians :lol

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[DMX7]

He has been kicking the creationists in the crotch... completely unapologetic. I love it.

[spurraider21]

He has been kicking the creationists in the crotch... completely unapologetic. I love it.
i'm on the evolution side too, but damn u'v been getting a real kick out of this. did a creationist fuck your mother, tbh?

[DMX7]

i'm on the evolution side too, but damn u'v been getting a real kick out of this. did a creationist fuck your mother, tbh?

No, it's just refreshing to see a real scientist essentially tell the creationists they're idiots and not have to pretend like they're above the debate, tbh.

[Koolaid_Man]

all one has to do is start dabbling in spiritism and witch craft to see that a different dimension exists that has nothing to do with evolution...you'll become believers real fast :lmao

[ChumpDumper]

all one has to do is start dabbling in spiritism and witch craft to see that a different dimension exists that has nothing to do with evolution...you'll become believers real fast :lmaoSo you're into witchcraft.

OK.

[pgardn]

So you're into witchcraft.

OK.

This poster is serious?

[spursncowboys]

Great show. For creationist: although he made alot of statements of facts that aren't facts, he did admit that there is no idea how life started. I think he said it could have came from another planet.

[Blake]

all one has to do is start dabbling in spiritism and witch craft to see that a different dimension exists that has nothing to do with evolution...you'll become believers real fast :lmao

What kind of witch craft have you seen

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"he did admit that there is no idea how life started."

well, he's not very well informed on that. scientists have been playing with clays (Biblical!) and various chemicals mixtures. search "creating life in lab"

[Blake]

although he made alot of statements of facts that aren't facts

a lot? name one that he got wrong.

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The Most Powerful Nerd In The Universe Is A Scientific Anomaly

Neil deGrasse Tyson — astrophysicist, , , — is America's "It" Nerd.

A lot of people have held that title before, acting as evangelists for science and discovery. Ben Franklin. . Stephen Jay Gould. Carl Sagan. Tyson's the latest standard-bearer, and two weeks ago he presided over an hourlong meditation on the birth and scope of the universe that was being broadcast on several networks at once.

"[The Big Bang] is as far back as we can see in time," he intoned on . He paused for effect. "For now."

Cosmos is an update of the beloved 1980 PBS series of the same name hosted by Sagan. The new edition is full of allusions to the old one. "We are made of star stuff," Tyson says in the first episode, repeating one of Sagan's most famous lines. A lot has been made of the fact that decades ago, Sagan — once the "It" Nerd himself — tried unsuccessfully to recruit the teenage Tyson to Cornell University.

Tyson's ascension to America's foremost nerd is a testament to his undeniable charisma and ability to make complicated ideas accessible to laypeople. But some of that's by default, because, really, who else might even be in contention for it? (Bill Nye, perhaps?)

But Tyson's current stature is unlikely for another reason: He's a black astrophysicist, as elusive a phenomenon as the Higgs boson.

"There are very, very few African-American astrophysics PhDs," Alcalde, an alumni magazine for the University of Texas, Austin, where he studied for a time during graduate school. "That's for a reason. I was doing something people of my skin color were not supposed to do. So people who believed in me, like Sagan, were important."

Tyson has talked a lot about the casual racism he experienced at UT.

"I was stopped and questioned seven times by University police on my way into the physics building," he said.

"Seven times. Zero times was I stopped going into the gym — and I went to the gym a lot. That says all you need to know about how welcome I felt at Texas." :lol

But he said that race was only at the edges of why he didn't excel there.)

Our play-cousins at Tell Me More to how underrepresented black folk are in STEM fields, but this is especially pronounced among astrophysicists. In 2012, the astrophysicist J.C. Holbrook , and she could identify only a few dozen from the last six decades.

"Holbrook begins with some startling statistics: since 1955, only forty African-Americans have earned doctorates in astronomy or physics doing an astronomy dissertation. This means they comprise at most 2.47% of PhDs in astronomy. Out of 594 faculty at top 40 astronomy programs, 6 are African-American (1%). Notably, Hispanics fare no better, with 7 (1.2%), while Asians account for 42 of the 594, for 7.1%."

Holbrook was trying to figure out whether there were some specific strategies that had allowed the black folks who stuck around in the field to thrive. These are questions that Tyson himself has asked. While he sat on a panel for an event a few years ago, if there might be some "genetic reason" why there were so few women in science. That prompted Tyson to wonder aloud while his field looked the way it does.

"I've never been female, but I've been black all my life and so let me perhaps offer some insight from that perspective. I got to see how the world around me reacted to my expressions of these ambitions. All I can say that is the fact that I wanted to be a scientist, an astrophysicist was, hands-down, the path of most resistance through the forces of society. ... Now here I am, I think, one of the most visible scientists in the land. And I look behind me and I say, 'Where are the others who might have been this?' And they're not there. And I wonder: Where is the blood on the tracks that I happened to survive that others did not simply because of the forces of society that prevent it at every turn?"

Those questions are proving to be as difficult to resolve as any in physics.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/03/23/291440486/the-most-powerful-nerd-in-the-universe-and-a-unicorn?utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=20140330&utm_source=mostemailed

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Time-Lapse Video Of A Star Explosion


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Bible-humpers, creationists, evangelicals, marans :lol