Neil deGrasse Tyson - continue the quest for knowledge

[hellasow]

For fun i just youtube search Neil deGrasse Tyson

[ViperXMambo]

I love this dude! Brilliant and funny at the same time!

[k9a2g6]

One of my favorite quote is from the President of "Nature Conservancy" in which he stated " We Destroy what we don't understand " . We are destroying nature and it's inhabitants ", and as Susan Jacoby wrote : " The Age of Unreason ", "Knowledge and Information is the Currency for a good Democracy"~Thomas Jefferson. So,we must not let these Religious Idiots destroy our Knowledge, KEEP on TRUCKIN'

[hymnofashes]

The best answer to 'God did it?' is 'Well of COURSE, but HOW did he do it?'

[TacticusPrime]

@hymnofashes When you agree that God did it, then you could just say it was a miracle. Violates the laws of science, so we'll never know. That's why ID is so dangerous.

[franktastikart]

@TacticusPrime LAW , empirical generalization; a statement of a biological principle that appears to be without exception at the time it is made, by repeated successful testing; A theoretical principle deduced from particular facts, applicable to a defined group or class of phenomena, and expressible by a statement that a particular phenomenon always occurs if certain conditions be present A set of observed regularities expressed in a concise verbal or mathematical statement.

[franktastikart]

Respond to this video... THEORY, The grandest synthesis of a large and important body of information about some related group of natural phenomena A body of knowledge and explanatory concepts that seek to increase our understanding ("explain") a major phenomenon of nature A scientifically accepted general principle supported by a substantial body of evidence offered to provide an explanation of observed facts and as a basis for future discussion or investigation..... 

[franktastikart]

Respond to this video... The abstract principles of a science as distinguished from basic or applied science. A reasonable explanation or assumption advanced to explain a natural phenomenon but lacking confirming proof . [NB: I don't like this one but I include it to show you that even in "Science dictionaries" there is variation in definitions which leads to confusion].

[franktastikart]

Respond to this video..A scheme or system of ideas or statements held as an explanation or account of a group of facts or phenomena; a hypothesis that has been confirmed or established by observation or experiment, and is propounded or accepted as accounting for the known facts; a statement of what are held to be the general laws, principles or causes of something known or observed. (Oxford English Dictionary, 1961; [emphasis added])

[franktastikart]

Respond to this video...An explanation for an observation or series of observations that is substantiated by a considerable body of evidence

[chinamanspeakenlis]

@hymnofashes ermmm ..not really. when you say "well ofcourse" you are actually submitting yourself to ignorance. you r giving up to bunch of ignorants who have stopped thinking or investigating beyond their limit of knowledge. well, you can use this line diplomatically to keep all the parties happy but you r also perpetuating the belief system based on no evidence. it is the same belief system who has held us back for so long. "god did it"?who created the "god" in the first place??