Neil, in the future, hold the microphone closer to your mouth. If I am correct, the inverse square law applies to acoustics, even though it may be a little off due to the polar pattern of the microphone, which the SM58 you are holding has a cardioid pattern.
A counselor in my school told me that she believes that jesus made magic tricks and that the earth is 12 years old. I was going to ask her if she also believed in santa claus, but I remembered not to talk to delusional people.
@RyanMatthias He was a christian but the things he said were misinterpreted by priests as being atheist. In the same way that Thomas Moore was made a saint by the catholic church - he had six people burned at the stake for reading the bible in English.
@lewisner Yeah, it's fucked up, but these things are more a reflection of human nature and the outcome of dogma versus a reflection of spiritual beliefs in themselves. I'm just getting tired of the Religion vs. Atheism crap when really both are flawed. As I have given up on humankind, I have put my faith in God, who under the proper understanding ultimately transcends religion entirely.
@RyanMatthias god is a reflection of human nature - its based on a fear of death and not wanting to take responsibility for your own actions. Atheism is based on reality but religion is simply what your parents taught you.
@Pilaf1984 Yeah but Galileo was right. Darwin was accurate, but evolution doesn't exclude the existence of God. It contradicts a literal interpretation of the Bible, but the Bible isn't meant to be interpreted literally in the first place.
Maybe it's time for scientists to start knocking on church doors to see if they can drop off a few copies of On the Origin of Species to be placed in the pews along with that other book.
In Norway, if a teacher would have been saying something like this I don't think that person would be alowed to keep his job. And even 8year old students would have been like "WTF?". So far I have only met two teachers here not being agnostic or atheist. One christian and one catholic. But even them, supporters of evolution of course and not like this "herp de derp!" mentally ill creationist person this man is talking about :P I don't know what you guys are doing wrong to get em :P
Neil deGrasse Tyson - "OUR COLLECTIVE FREE TIME NEEDS TO SHIFT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE TO EDUCATION. WHETHER YOU'RE A YOUNG STUDENT OR FINISHED SCHOOL LONG AGO, GET OUT TO THE LIBRARY WHENEVER YOU CAN AND WORK HARD TO LEARN EVERYTHING YOU CAN ABOUT THIS WORLD. EACH INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY WILL BENEFIT FROM BEING ABLE TO SOLVE MORE PROBLEMS AND MAKE BETTER DECISIONS. EDUCATION IS AN AMAZING DISCOVERY PROCESS THAT REPAYS YOU ENDLESSLY."
That Ark would have to be ten molest long and would have needed a pod of maintenance workers to clean the animal shit and fees them. Not too mention, food storage, ventilation, etc...
We couldn't even do it with today's technology at work.
@peymaania not to mention having to re-plant all of the fauna in all of the appropriate places then returning the animals, insects, bacteria to their appropriate environments...
Ditto. Totally up for people believing in whatever they want to believe in. But. If you're going to preach something, you better be able to back that up with proof. Hard, physical, indisputable proof (and no, mere words don't count as proof!). And if you can't prove what you preach, then, for the sake of peace, keep those sermons well within the confines of your place of worship. If mainstream religions followed this principle, the Human Race would be well on it’s way towards world peace!
@vidas2010 Here's an idea. As you probably know, theists are virtually incapable of defending their theism without the sustained use of logical fallacies. How about if we made debate a mandatory class from a young age (around the same time they're typically being indoctrinated) up until graduation? Imagine a world where every theist is educated about logical fallacies from the time they were indoctrinated into theism... Surely theism would decrease that much faster.
@incomprehensible14 I use debate in my history class as much as I can...I get asked why I allow my class to get so "Off Topic". People have a hard time grasping the idea of simple Socratic Method to allow individuals to reach thier own conclusions and break ingrained dogmas.
@whiteowl1415 that model only works after students have grasp of the basics first.If students do not have a good understanding of the fundamentals to American history they are not going to be able to use the Socratic Method to finding knowledge.
True, but while they cannot find the actual answers that way without a solid base to work from, I find it gets thier minds in the right frame so that when you explain afterwards the actual historic outcome they are more prepared to understand how that outcome was reached.
@roxyosox122 How about if debate was made to be a mandatory class from a young age up until graduation? Theism doesn't have much left if you take away logical fallacies. They'd never see it coming. If you think about it, everybody uses debate in every aspect of their lives so teaching people debate would probably also decrease undesirable behaviors ie teenage pregnancies, dumb criminal activity, DUI, Fox News etc.
@incomprehensible14 the problem is that most people are pussies(no joke) one of my teachers did that and people would start to cry because they had to think on their own and couldnt do it.it was mostly girls but most people hated him(except people like me who were happy because we were actually learning something for once)
Well no they don't have to be scientific. Sometimes hunches lead to amazing discoveries. We don't have to know why something works to know that it does or even to believe that it does. This is what has caused so much misfortune for so many; they couldn't prove it therefore they suffered persecution.
This guy is such a danger to freedom it's astounding how many people follow him. He first says that he doesn't care what people believe then proceeds to laugh at them and suggest that only those who follow his beliefs should be allowed to be teachers. Logic should prevail but scientists have been wrong so many times it's amazing so many overlook it.
Scientists have been wrong many times, that's true. But the difference is that science ADMITS when it's wrong and LEARNS from it, as opposed to religion which either buries its head in the sand or cries about 'oppression' or 'freedom of belief'. Knowing and admitting that you were wrong is not a bad thing, in fact it's the only way to the truth.
@Gaz6231 It means that free people have the right to believe, teach and promote whatever they choose. You rear your children others can rear their children. I am not religious. I believe in freedom.
And how far does that freedom extend? What about a child's right to be free of mental abuse when its parents tell it that it will burn in hell if it puts a foot wrong?
What if I teach my children that they should love only the people who believe what we do and hate everyone else? I may be free to do that, but is it RIGHT to do it?
@Gaz6231 Parents have the exclusive right to govern their own children until they reach the legal age of eighteen. I'm all for lowering the legal age. It isn't mental abuse just because you and Neil disagree with it. Science has been wrong so many times you couldn't count them all. The facts don't always prove what you think they will.
I'm sorry, but inflicting a child with the level of terror that the concept of hell can inflict (that will last for the rest of its life in some form or another, by the way) is mental abuse almost by definition. If it wasn't religion it would be a crime.
And why do you say 'science has been wrong' like that's bad? Is never changing your viewpoint regardless of the evidence a noble virtue or willful ignorance? Getting it wrong is a natural step on the path to being right.
@Gaz6231 "Getting it wrong is a natural step on the path to being right." Precisely! It is our right as sovereign individuals to establish our own value system and to walk our own path in life. I am free to make my own discoveries whether it be your way or not and independent of whether I draw the same conclusion as you and Neil. By the way, I am not religious and my daughter is a self proclaimed atheist.
@Gaz6231 "Getting it wrong is a natural step on the path to being right." Precisely! It is our right as sovereign individuals to establish our own value system and to walk our own path in life. I am free to make my own discoveries whether it be your way or not and independent of whether I draw the same conclusion as you and Neil. By the way, I am not religious and my daughter is a self proclaimed atheist.
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty Your focus is all about freedom to the exclusion of other important concepts. You have the freedom to make baseless claims about the workings of the universe, but in education, our children deserve the knowledge acquired by the scientific process. They should not be the ones expected to separate the wheat from the chaff. Your right to believe in chaff should not supersede a proper scientific education of our future leaders.
@coolgreyoneabby There aren't "our children" There are only MY children, YOUR children, and OTHER PEOPLE'S children. You don't know you're correct anyway. Traditionally, parents have passed down wisdom from life experience. Children will always hear, see, and read differing views. That's good.
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty "Our children" means in our culture. It may not be just "your children" taking care of you when you are old and not able to take care of yourself. They may be "other peoples" children doing the job. In any case, it will be "other peoples children" who will be making the decisions on your health care. For your sake, I hope they are well educated. In any case, science is the best tool ever developed to unlock the workings of the universe. Our children deserve that knowledge
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty I'm not talking about some government program, I'm talking about the education and standards of the individual people who will be tasked to take care of you when you are no longer able to take care of yourself. Let's hope they do not have the "freedom" to practice voodoo, witchcraft or homeopathy on you when you are in no position to decline the treatment or decide for yourslf.
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty We have had a libertarian systems in the past. They are great if you want the next guy to have the "freedom" to dump his waste and pollutants upstream of your drinking water source, or sell you snake oil as medical remedies, pilot any plane with no training, or operate on you with no certifications or build structures with no building standards or sell insurance with no money to back it up or ... on and on. Laws and regulations are not your enemy. Bad ones are.
@coolgreyoneabby Fraud's illegal. If I want my unlicensed neighbor to cut my hair that's between us and not the government...and not you. Don't preach to me.
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty Dumping sewage into your water is not fraud, Piloting a plane without training is not fraud, surgery without training is not fraud unless you enact those evil regulations, Teaching caregivers who will take care of you in your old age voodoo medicine is not fraud either, so you avoid real life consequences and backtrack to hair cutting which we would both agree.
@coolgreyoneabby Well you're certainly defrauding the public by piloting a plane or performing surgery if they're under the presumption that you have a license. But you shouldn't be required to have one.
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty You are just now starting to get the point. In a fully libertarian world, there would be none of those pesky regulations that would stop the guy dumping raw sewage upstream from you, no one requiring an education to perform surgery on your kid, demonstrate the drugs you take have been tested for safety and efficacy, and so on. As society gets more complicated and some people abuse their "freedoms" hurting other people, some rules are not necessarily bad thing.
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty OK so I guess we have established that you follow your favorite flavor of political ideology no matter what the consequences are in terms of human cost. Seems difficult to carry on a normal exchange of ideas with religious and political absolutists. I speak of clean water, science education, medical competence and you worry about getting your hair cut.
@coolgreyoneabby ...And this has never been an intellectual exchange it's been you pushing your naiveté. While I usually sit back, smile and shake my head at such foolishness there is no smiling at tyranny which is precisely what anything but freedom truly is, no matter your pitiful attempts to cover it up or excuse it. Even worse is your apparent assumption that your thoughts are fresh and exciting. They are old and tired and have hurt many a people.
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty OK so I guess we have established that you follow your favorite flavor of political ideology no matter what the consequences are in terms of human cost. Seems difficult to carry on a normal exchange of ideas with religious and political absolutists. I speak of clean water, science education, medical competence and you worry about getting your hair cut.
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty You are just now starting to get the point. In a fully libertarian world, there would be none of those pesky regulations that would stop the guy dumping raw sewage upstream from you, no one requiring an education to perform surgery on your kid, demonstrate the drugs you take have been tested for safety and efficacy, and so on. As society gets more complicated and some people abuse their "freedoms" hurting other people, some rules are not necessarily bad thing.
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty You are just now starting to get the point. In a fully libertarian world, there would be none of those pesky regulations that would stop the guy dumping raw sewage upstream from you, no one requiring an education to perform surgery on your kid, demonstrate the drugs you take have been tested for safety and efficacy, and so on. As society gets more complicated and some people abuse their "freedoms" hurting other people, some rules are not necessarily bad thing.
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty Science is the best tool ever developed to separate myth from reality. Science has unlocked many mysteries of the universe once only speculated by religion. Our children deserve to learn the best in our quest for knowledge. Freedom of speech and religion is a poor excuse to lower the bar for the quality of our childrens' education. Science changes because it strives to constantly improve human knowledge. Religion is stuck with belief in mythology.
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty are you retarded??? YES YOU HAVE TO BE SCIENTIFICALLY LITERATE TO BE A TEACHER. When was the last time you called a plumber who didnt know plumbing?
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty oh yeah. it sometimes gets on my nerve when someone doesnt understand the first thing about education and bothers to comment on it.
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty Nope. Actually. I'm not the one who said teaching the scientific consensus is following a belief. which for someone working in academia, is as stupid as it gets.
@mignik01 I said individuals are free to believe and promote or reject whatever they choose regardless of what you or Neil want. There was a time when scientists said that no planet could have two suns. Science has 'proven' lots of things that have turned out to be incorrect. So many historical figures were persecuted for their beliefs and theories only to be proven right years after their death. It's disgusting and horrific to think that you are still in that mind set.
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty Actually there is a correction. Science has never "proved" anything.
Historical figures like. lets say Boltzmann had a scientific idea presented in the form of a scientific paper. Talking nonsense to children doesnt count as one. Neil Tyson isnt talking about the string theory, nor the supersymmetry or dark matter.
Actually when did we say two suns are impossible? we have had the idea of binary star systems for quite a while now. its i think as early as the 19th century.
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty people who dedicate their lives to do scientific research and publish their results. if it wasnt for those people you and I would still be living in the middle ages. People like Issac Newton and Albert Einstein.
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty when i said we, I meant the whole human race, including you. Everything these great minds found out is available for you too. If u dont wanna learn, well thats your choice.
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty I dont wanna get into NASA. I'm pointing at the fact that a teacher who says bible is the ultimate truth and whoever believes in evolution or any other religion is going to hell and points to a young students and tells her that she is doomed to hell, should fired from her profession.
Richard Feynman once critiqued public school textbooks...it was funny and he was correct in his assessment. In many respects he wasn't exactly a fan of formal education. He also wasn't a fan of many scientists. Too many are FAR too narrow minded.
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty I agree. infact we are doing a lil project right now. cant get into the details of it, but for it i have sit through text books and had to find wrong examples. infact we found a lot of bad examples. and they were not high school text books.
That's not the point here. Textbooks having wrong examples and teachers teaching ridiculous concepts is not the same thing.
@mignik01 Religion has no place in the classroom except in the teaching of theory. Same for evolution. All of it should be taught for what it is. Why hide the fact that huge numbers of people all throughout the world follow certain beliefs? It's true, they do.
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty u see thats where i call someone ignorant of science. If i didnt have theories to work with, i'd have nothing to work with. Science is built on theories. facts are interesting but not that useful.
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty You are half right. Religion has no place in a science classroom. Science belongs in a scenic classroom. Since geology, anthropology, archeology, evolution, biology and cosmology are all science and not religion, they are very good subjects to be taught in science class.
@coolgreyoneabby I'm not into splitting everything up into categories. Educating as to the world around us and differing views is what I'm talking about. You push select opinions then tell people they should think for themselves. Think about that.
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty Science is not opinion. Science is evidence based understanding of how nature works. Our kids deserve to learn what has been discovered using the scientific process. Religion is not science and I do not advocate teaching religion in science class, In fact I favor teaching science regardless if it pisses of some religious types. Censoring science based on religious opinion is just as bad as teaching religion itself.
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty You are "free" to teach your children witchcraft, magic, superstition, false belief systems, nonsense, hokum, mythology, bad ideas, outdated belief systems, fiction, lunacy, violence, disrespect, racism, hate, lies, voodoo, hollow earth, etc. I think that the next generation deserves better, but you are "free" to disagree.
@coolgreyoneabby False beliefs to you perhaps, and that's the point. I never said I believed in any of that which you listed. I said it's none of your business what other people believe. Discussing it is one thing, enacting laws to force views on others is something altogether different.
Religion is the realm of the unexplainable, not the explainable.
My brother (a teacher) said to a parent, "I'm teaching science, not religion."
It is religion that contradicts the facts, not science that contradicts religion.
Because science can question itself, the true story coalesces *from* chaos. It doesn't create chaos, but eliminates it; on the other hand, trying to fit facts to the story *does* create chaos, and ever expanding, convoluted explanations.
All scientist should be very actively denouncing the FRAUD that all religious beliefs are, but most of them don't bother or are just too wimp to do so. We need to have hundreds of Dawkins or Harris, then this scourge will not last another 200 years.
I think most of us would love to embrace religion and have supposedly inherited love and hope in our lives. We can be at peace and all just live our lives happily. Why would we WANT to discover and acknowledge that the universe might be a completely hopeless place, and that our existence means NOTHING on the grand scale of it? A: Because that is where the evidence, the truth, leads us, whether the outcome is sad or not sad. (which it isn't, I certainly love many things and have much hope)
No God of mine would want me to stay ignorant of the mechanisms of his glorious creation. That's just the strawman created by brainless God-haters like Neil Tyson. But yea, keep "thinking" instead of researching, Neil. Ensure your place in history as a quack philosopher rather than a groundbreaking scientist.
@blkswimmer Agreed. The god of the bible is not a god at all. I believe in a creator of the universe, but I don't believe in hell. I believe life is a gift and that god is not jealous. EVERYONE and I mean EVERYONE goes to heaven to live with God for eternity in perfect bliss and happiness. I'm not sure what that means exactly, but I can't see any other way. Life can't just end at death. That would be ridiculous...
@tpstrat14 I'm going to ask you for something that I ask all religious people, even my friends. Do you have any evidence that the universe was created by a higher being? Any evidence of this "heaven" of which you speak? Because until some one provides me with evidence that there is a god and (s)he created everything, I'm going to reject all religious claims
@lisn92 Check your common sense. It's deep down there somewhere. It just doesn't make any sense that the universe would pop into existence WITH conscious beings if there was no higher being that did it. No scientific proof of god is possible. Even if it was, most atheists like yourself would reject it....
"No scientific proof of god is possible. Even if it was, most atheists like yourself would reject it...."
Really? Many Atheist follow the scientific method. Science is the unbiased pursuit of the understanding. Science follows where the evidence leads and you know this.
The ones who reject evidence by the truck load are the religious
@tpstrat14 dude, check your common sense, the universe just didnt pop into exsistance with creatures already here, it took hundreds of billions of years
@lisn92 I'm not talking about how long it took, I'm talking about the fact that you and I exist now. For you and I to exist, there must be a creator...
@tpstrat14 no, you said that it doesnt make any sense for a universe to pop into existance with conscious beings, and a pop takes maybe 1 or 2 seconds max. and also as i said before prove this claim that there is a creator and ill be converted. until that time, i will still reject your claims thats there is a god and that he created everything. i mean people used to believe that the earth was the centre of the universe cus god made the earth, until science proved that wrong lol
@tpstrat14 i never said it was, i was just saying that religion is an outdated way to control the masses, and that science and our understanding of the universe has shown us how small we are
@lisn92 Science and our understanding has shown us how small we are? How so? Did anyone with any sense ever deny our smallness, even in places where not much was known about astronomy? I think people have always known how physically small they were, well before any kind of scientific discoveries were made...... so we're small, what's your point?
@tpstrat14 dude im saying that religion led people to believe that we as human beings are the most important life form in the universe and that the earth was the centre of the universe. And science has proved that we are not infact the most important, or even the biggest, and that even the earth isnt at the centre of the universe. You can keep trying to make me sound like a retard who deserves an eternity in hell, but seriously you're a fucking religious nut job on a science vid
@lisn92 I'm not going to cite scriptures because I abhor Christianity--- (although not NEARLY as much as I abhor your hateful, religion-bashing atheism). I am a deist of sorts and therefore I will cite common sense. Science has proven just how SIGNIFICANT we are, not how insignificant we are. Imagine there is a being in a universe that can figure out the physical laws that govern it. That intelligence makes that being LESS significant?! God loves you even though you're an ass, don't worry..
@tpstrat14 so ur saying that we as a planet, are signififcant? when theres billions of stars in the universe, and then lets say that only half of them have planets orbiting around them, and like our solar system each star has 3 planets in the goldey locks zone, thats a whole lot of planets that can support life. our little rock isnt anything special, we could of ended up on venus or mars. ffs there are planets bigger then ours in our own solar system, and that doesnt make u feel small?
@lisn92 That we've been able to figure all that stuff out that you said and there's no end in sight to our knowledge..... that is pure testament that if there is anything more significant than us in the universe, it has to quite the intelligent being!!! (obviously all the stars combined is nothing compared to one living being)
@tpstrat14 ok, right you believe in god, maybe u can answer some of these questions. How come there are contradictions in the bible if it is the word of god, and god is perfect? how come dogs have a better sense of smell the humans, and how come eagles have better eye sight then humans, was god payin more attention to them while he made them? how do you know god is a man? what do you say to the people that say the bible is just a rip off of ancient egyptian beliefs. also dont refer to the bible
@tpstrat14 that's an argument from ignorance. "i don't know, so it must have been god."
if no scientific proof of god is possible, it is unreasonable to believe in one. if there is scientific proof of god, we'd need to see it before we'd know whether we'd reject it or not.
and i'm certain tyson has done far more research than you ever have, btw.
Who cares if is speaks or acts like as what you call a televangelist. It only matters to me that he is speaking truth which he is. I not saying this is necessarily your case but so many peopled get locked in to the presentation instead of just keeping to the message, which is always the most important. I don't care if the devil himself came to tell me about the realities of the universe as long as it was just factual truth!
@Godraideen how much are the tickets and what is tyson's cut? how much does it cost for the TAM event organizers to stage the event? yes, tyson gets paid for his appearance, i'm sure, but he should.
if you think tyson is just like a televangelist, you have obviously never seen a televangelist at work.
@doaftheloaf how much do preachers ASK for money? What is the preachers cut? How much does it cost the church to hold services on every sunday and sometimes wednesday of the year. Sometimes mornings and nights. Yes evangelists get paid for their appearances, but they should.
If you think tyson does not act like a televangelist, you have obviously never seen a televangelist at work.
@Godraideen - It is WAY past time that science started playing the popularity game that religions have been playing for millennia. The problem has been that science has been busy learning, teaching, exploring and progressing civilization, and they haven't been much concerned with their PR, because frankly, who could disapprove of it? But now, in an age where we actually have hyper-ideological evangelicals who could potentially become PRESIDENT, I'm glad to see science making its voice heard.
@doaftheloaf ....but I digress, you missed the point in its entirety in the first place. His demeanor on stage is just like a televangelist. He moves like one, speaks like one with the inflections in his voice. He is essentially "preaching" to the audience his perspective on the universe etc etc. He uses the same techniques to "wash" the people he speaks to as televangelists do. Sorry you cant discern this from simple you tube observations.
Creationism undoubtedly should be taught in schools. In a Worlds Religions class. But a science class only represents what our best science believes and has been validated which is evolution, the Big Bang and that dinosaurs came and went before humans walked the earth
@SagesOfSeraphim There really should be a more comprehensive World Religions course. I really would have liked to know more about Buddhism back in high school.
@dancingwithcalvin First of all you ignoramous, I never once correlated his intelligence with his ethnic background. Secondly, I guarantee I've dealt with more racism than you ever will in your entire lifetime. I'm not living through past racism against my "people". I'm actually living with it. Lastly, if our current president was Asian, I would have made the same exact type of remark about Michio Kaku. Now kindly SHUT THE FUCK UP you overtly race sensitive, intellectually devoid ignorant fool.
Idiot; doesn't matter what racism you go though, I dont give a fuck. And whatever it is, if your not black, its not relevant or comparable to what I went through, go through etc. I'm sure you would have said the same thing about Kaku. That's my point, stop seeing race first you moron. Try your best. And I never accused you of correlating him being black and his intelligence, I'm saying that by comparing him to Obama just because there b oth smart, and both black, if sucking stupid.
@dancingwithcalvin Yea, I'm sure you go around your daily life being called Nigger or receiving comments about the shape of your eyes. Sure, you face racism. Stereotypes? Yea, I don't doubt that. I face stereotypes too like the ever so popular penis size comments. I'm not comparing him to Obama. Again, you prove your ignorance. Obama is half Black. He is the first non-white president. All I am simply saying is I'd much rather have Neil Tyson, another Black person, as president.
@dancingwithcalvin People like you piss me off. You search for any reason to pull the racism card. You take comments way out of context. You're almost as annoying as actual racists.
@dancingwithcalvin By the way, for me to be a huge fan of Neil Tyson's speeches and lectures proves I saw his intelligence way before I saw his skin color.
@dancingwithcalvin This would have been an awesome comment had it been in jest... but something tells me you're being very serious.
Reason being, what I said was meant as humor. Unfortunately, people like you exist that take things out of context just so they can pull the racism card.
Im deffinitley not the type of person who liked to pull the racism card. Its awkward and not always necessarily. Ehh whatever I forgot what I was arguing, Good day.
43 are crappy school teachers that just got automatic tenure...
tweaker1bms 8 hours ago
Neil, in the future, hold the microphone closer to your mouth. If I am correct, the inverse square law applies to acoustics, even though it may be a little off due to the polar pattern of the microphone, which the SM58 you are holding has a cardioid pattern.
dumbo800 3 days ago
He is never wrong. Ever.
yamenhawit 5 days ago 2
This is my absolute favorite clip of NDT.
We need MORE people like Neil deGrasse Tyson!
ThomofOregon 6 days ago
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What to fight with God?! You CAN NOT win your creator, stupid!!!
Bible explain everything than this man!
ta986468 1 week ago
@ta986468 "Bible explain everything than this man!" You just accidentally that whole sentence.
JamesHLanier 5 days ago 5
@JamesHLanier I love you.
TheSuperSmashBrother 1 day ago
A counselor in my school told me that she believes that jesus made magic tricks and that the earth is 12 years old. I was going to ask her if she also believed in santa claus, but I remembered not to talk to delusional people.
numerrita 1 week ago
@numerrita 12??? How old is she? Was she born on Mars and transported here 12 years ago when the earth was created??! Weirdo.
apodder 1 week ago
Niel deGrasse Tyson...
Educations Great Black Hope !!!
nolobede 2 weeks ago
Anyone have the full video of this? Would love to see it!
whitie1987 2 weeks ago
@whitie1987 watch?v=SEywodo_mXE and following for the whole video
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Ron Paul 2012
tatlifelover 3 weeks ago
Tell me how.
lewisner 4 weeks ago
Galileo. Father of Modern Science. Christian. Strange.
Oh, wait. Actually that makes perfect sense. Oh well.
RyanMatthias 1 month ago
@RyanMatthias Galileo. Lived in a time when you could be burned alive for being an atheist. Obvious
lewisner 1 month ago 4
@lewisner So was he a Christian or an atheist?
RyanMatthias 4 weeks ago
@RyanMatthias He was a christian but the things he said were misinterpreted by priests as being atheist. In the same way that Thomas Moore was made a saint by the catholic church - he had six people burned at the stake for reading the bible in English.
lewisner 4 weeks ago
@lewisner Yeah, it's fucked up, but these things are more a reflection of human nature and the outcome of dogma versus a reflection of spiritual beliefs in themselves. I'm just getting tired of the Religion vs. Atheism crap when really both are flawed. As I have given up on humankind, I have put my faith in God, who under the proper understanding ultimately transcends religion entirely.
RyanMatthias 4 weeks ago
@RyanMatthias god is a reflection of human nature - its based on a fear of death and not wanting to take responsibility for your own actions. Atheism is based on reality but religion is simply what your parents taught you.
"Humankind" are all you have.
lewisner 4 weeks ago 6
@lewisner Every statement you made is wrong.
RyanMatthias 4 weeks ago
@RyanMatthias So? He challenged the ingrained dogma of his day. Just like Darwin did.
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@Pilaf1984 Yeah but Galileo was right. Darwin was accurate, but evolution doesn't exclude the existence of God. It contradicts a literal interpretation of the Bible, but the Bible isn't meant to be interpreted literally in the first place.
RyanMatthias 4 weeks ago
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Stand-up physicist
jimmo42 1 month ago 5
Maybe it's time for scientists to start knocking on church doors to see if they can drop off a few copies of On the Origin of Species to be placed in the pews along with that other book.
ChipArgyle 1 month ago 5
This man is my hero.
SmarticlesTheGoof 2 months ago in playlist Neil deGrasse Tyson 6
So eloquent :-/
tmaxwell8383 2 months ago
@tmaxwell8383 Oh, come on. Being intelligible and easy to understand is part of his job.
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standingontruth1 2 months ago in playlist Reason and Science
In Norway, if a teacher would have been saying something like this I don't think that person would be alowed to keep his job. And even 8year old students would have been like "WTF?". So far I have only met two teachers here not being agnostic or atheist. One christian and one catholic. But even them, supporters of evolution of course and not like this "herp de derp!" mentally ill creationist person this man is talking about :P I don't know what you guys are doing wrong to get em :P
Norwayflex89 2 months ago
@Norwayflex89 Apparently it's different here in the US...We had slavery here, We wallow in our arrogance and persecute the defenseless. Pray for us.
bryanttillman 2 months ago
@bryanttillman I feel sorry for you now buddy :'(
Norwayflex89 2 months ago
Tyson for president!
coolgreyoneabby 3 months ago 4
good man, honest man, intelligent man, courageous man. Keep getting in their face!
mlcollins10 3 months ago 4
audio sucks..but thx
antiteista83 3 months ago
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Neil deGrasse Tyson - "OUR COLLECTIVE FREE TIME NEEDS TO SHIFT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE TO EDUCATION. WHETHER YOU'RE A YOUNG STUDENT OR FINISHED SCHOOL LONG AGO, GET OUT TO THE LIBRARY WHENEVER YOU CAN AND WORK HARD TO LEARN EVERYTHING YOU CAN ABOUT THIS WORLD. EACH INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY WILL BENEFIT FROM BEING ABLE TO SOLVE MORE PROBLEMS AND MAKE BETTER DECISIONS. EDUCATION IS AN AMAZING DISCOVERY PROCESS THAT REPAYS YOU ENDLESSLY."
TheLogicalBrain 3 months ago
right on Neil!
mlcollins10 3 months ago
That Ark would have to be ten molest long and would have needed a pod of maintenance workers to clean the animal shit and fees them. Not too mention, food storage, ventilation, etc...
We couldn't even do it with today's technology at work.
peymaania 3 months ago
@peymaania not to mention having to re-plant all of the fauna in all of the appropriate places then returning the animals, insects, bacteria to their appropriate environments...
crazygeek777 3 months ago
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youneekk 3 months ago
this guy is amazing
DaltonChamberlin 3 months ago
that last thing he said, PERFECT quote. Absolutely perfect.
Sc0ttPrian 4 months ago 2
Ditto. Totally up for people believing in whatever they want to believe in. But. If you're going to preach something, you better be able to back that up with proof. Hard, physical, indisputable proof (and no, mere words don't count as proof!). And if you can't prove what you preach, then, for the sake of peace, keep those sermons well within the confines of your place of worship. If mainstream religions followed this principle, the Human Race would be well on it’s way towards world peace!
sdwone 4 months ago
Amen.
tregibbs 4 months ago
Good job Matthew Mclair
Nowak18827 4 months ago 2
@vidas2010 Here's an idea. As you probably know, theists are virtually incapable of defending their theism without the sustained use of logical fallacies. How about if we made debate a mandatory class from a young age (around the same time they're typically being indoctrinated) up until graduation? Imagine a world where every theist is educated about logical fallacies from the time they were indoctrinated into theism... Surely theism would decrease that much faster.
incomprehensible14 4 months ago 2
@incomprehensible14 I use debate in my history class as much as I can...I get asked why I allow my class to get so "Off Topic". People have a hard time grasping the idea of simple Socratic Method to allow individuals to reach thier own conclusions and break ingrained dogmas.
whiteowl1415 3 months ago 38
@whiteowl1415 you are a hero. Thanks for your service!
tristramshandy3 3 months ago
@whiteowl1415 that model only works after students have grasp of the basics first.If students do not have a good understanding of the fundamentals to American history they are not going to be able to use the Socratic Method to finding knowledge.
smoothbrother69 3 weeks ago
@smoothbrother69
True, but while they cannot find the actual answers that way without a solid base to work from, I find it gets thier minds in the right frame so that when you explain afterwards the actual historic outcome they are more prepared to understand how that outcome was reached.
whiteowl1415 3 weeks ago
@vidas2010 They'd cry persecution and talk about "militant atheism" though.
roxyosox122 4 months ago
@roxyosox122 How about if debate was made to be a mandatory class from a young age up until graduation? Theism doesn't have much left if you take away logical fallacies. They'd never see it coming. If you think about it, everybody uses debate in every aspect of their lives so teaching people debate would probably also decrease undesirable behaviors ie teenage pregnancies, dumb criminal activity, DUI, Fox News etc.
incomprehensible14 4 months ago 32
@incomprehensible14 I don't know about debate but definitely things like logic and philosophy. Heck, nah you're right - debate too.
GypsyLeah 3 weeks ago
@incomprehensible14 the problem is that most people are pussies(no joke) one of my teachers did that and people would start to cry because they had to think on their own and couldnt do it.it was mostly girls but most people hated him(except people like me who were happy because we were actually learning something for once)
DIVAD291 6 days ago
Well no they don't have to be scientific. Sometimes hunches lead to amazing discoveries. We don't have to know why something works to know that it does or even to believe that it does. This is what has caused so much misfortune for so many; they couldn't prove it therefore they suffered persecution.
Vote4RonPaulLiberty 4 months ago
This guy is such a danger to freedom it's astounding how many people follow him. He first says that he doesn't care what people believe then proceeds to laugh at them and suggest that only those who follow his beliefs should be allowed to be teachers. Logic should prevail but scientists have been wrong so many times it's amazing so many overlook it.
Vote4RonPaulLiberty 4 months ago
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty
'Danger to freedom'? What does that even mean?
Scientists have been wrong many times, that's true. But the difference is that science ADMITS when it's wrong and LEARNS from it, as opposed to religion which either buries its head in the sand or cries about 'oppression' or 'freedom of belief'. Knowing and admitting that you were wrong is not a bad thing, in fact it's the only way to the truth.
Gaz6231 4 months ago
@Gaz6231 It means that free people have the right to believe, teach and promote whatever they choose. You rear your children others can rear their children. I am not religious. I believe in freedom.
Vote4RonPaulLiberty 4 months ago
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty
And how far does that freedom extend? What about a child's right to be free of mental abuse when its parents tell it that it will burn in hell if it puts a foot wrong?
What if I teach my children that they should love only the people who believe what we do and hate everyone else? I may be free to do that, but is it RIGHT to do it?
Gaz6231 4 months ago
@Gaz6231 Parents have the exclusive right to govern their own children until they reach the legal age of eighteen. I'm all for lowering the legal age. It isn't mental abuse just because you and Neil disagree with it. Science has been wrong so many times you couldn't count them all. The facts don't always prove what you think they will.
Vote4RonPaulLiberty 4 months ago
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty
I'm sorry, but inflicting a child with the level of terror that the concept of hell can inflict (that will last for the rest of its life in some form or another, by the way) is mental abuse almost by definition. If it wasn't religion it would be a crime.
And why do you say 'science has been wrong' like that's bad? Is never changing your viewpoint regardless of the evidence a noble virtue or willful ignorance? Getting it wrong is a natural step on the path to being right.
Gaz6231 4 months ago
@Gaz6231 "Getting it wrong is a natural step on the path to being right." Precisely! It is our right as sovereign individuals to establish our own value system and to walk our own path in life. I am free to make my own discoveries whether it be your way or not and independent of whether I draw the same conclusion as you and Neil. By the way, I am not religious and my daughter is a self proclaimed atheist.
Vote4RonPaulLiberty 4 months ago
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@Gaz6231 "Getting it wrong is a natural step on the path to being right." Precisely! It is our right as sovereign individuals to establish our own value system and to walk our own path in life. I am free to make my own discoveries whether it be your way or not and independent of whether I draw the same conclusion as you and Neil. By the way, I am not religious and my daughter is a self proclaimed atheist.
Vote4RonPaulLiberty 4 months ago
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty Your focus is all about freedom to the exclusion of other important concepts. You have the freedom to make baseless claims about the workings of the universe, but in education, our children deserve the knowledge acquired by the scientific process. They should not be the ones expected to separate the wheat from the chaff. Your right to believe in chaff should not supersede a proper scientific education of our future leaders.
coolgreyoneabby 4 months ago
@coolgreyoneabby There aren't "our children" There are only MY children, YOUR children, and OTHER PEOPLE'S children. You don't know you're correct anyway. Traditionally, parents have passed down wisdom from life experience. Children will always hear, see, and read differing views. That's good.
Vote4RonPaulLiberty 4 months ago
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty "Our children" means in our culture. It may not be just "your children" taking care of you when you are old and not able to take care of yourself. They may be "other peoples" children doing the job. In any case, it will be "other peoples children" who will be making the decisions on your health care. For your sake, I hope they are well educated. In any case, science is the best tool ever developed to unlock the workings of the universe. Our children deserve that knowledge
coolgreyoneabby 4 months ago
@coolgreyoneabby Health 'care' you say? I've grown too bored with with exchange to open that can of worms.
Vote4RonPaulLiberty 4 months ago
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty I'm not talking about some government program, I'm talking about the education and standards of the individual people who will be tasked to take care of you when you are no longer able to take care of yourself. Let's hope they do not have the "freedom" to practice voodoo, witchcraft or homeopathy on you when you are in no position to decline the treatment or decide for yourslf.
coolgreyoneabby 4 months ago
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty We have had a libertarian systems in the past. They are great if you want the next guy to have the "freedom" to dump his waste and pollutants upstream of your drinking water source, or sell you snake oil as medical remedies, pilot any plane with no training, or operate on you with no certifications or build structures with no building standards or sell insurance with no money to back it up or ... on and on. Laws and regulations are not your enemy. Bad ones are.
coolgreyoneabby 4 months ago
@coolgreyoneabby Fraud's illegal. If I want my unlicensed neighbor to cut my hair that's between us and not the government...and not you. Don't preach to me.
Vote4RonPaulLiberty 4 months ago
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty Dumping sewage into your water is not fraud, Piloting a plane without training is not fraud, surgery without training is not fraud unless you enact those evil regulations, Teaching caregivers who will take care of you in your old age voodoo medicine is not fraud either, so you avoid real life consequences and backtrack to hair cutting which we would both agree.
coolgreyoneabby 4 months ago
@coolgreyoneabby Well you're certainly defrauding the public by piloting a plane or performing surgery if they're under the presumption that you have a license. But you shouldn't be required to have one.
Vote4RonPaulLiberty 4 months ago
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty You are just now starting to get the point. In a fully libertarian world, there would be none of those pesky regulations that would stop the guy dumping raw sewage upstream from you, no one requiring an education to perform surgery on your kid, demonstrate the drugs you take have been tested for safety and efficacy, and so on. As society gets more complicated and some people abuse their "freedoms" hurting other people, some rules are not necessarily bad thing.
coolgreyoneabby 4 months ago
@coolgreyoneabby Excuse me? I am all for zero regulations. Are you in your twenties?
Vote4RonPaulLiberty 4 months ago
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty OK so I guess we have established that you follow your favorite flavor of political ideology no matter what the consequences are in terms of human cost. Seems difficult to carry on a normal exchange of ideas with religious and political absolutists. I speak of clean water, science education, medical competence and you worry about getting your hair cut.
coolgreyoneabby 4 months ago
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@coolgreyoneabby You're just an arrogant kid who knows nothing about life. Freedom is absolute.
Vote4RonPaulLiberty 4 months ago
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@coolgreyoneabby ...And this has never been an intellectual exchange it's been you pushing your naiveté. While I usually sit back, smile and shake my head at such foolishness there is no smiling at tyranny which is precisely what anything but freedom truly is, no matter your pitiful attempts to cover it up or excuse it. Even worse is your apparent assumption that your thoughts are fresh and exciting. They are old and tired and have hurt many a people.
Vote4RonPaulLiberty 4 months ago
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@Vote4RonPaulLiberty OK so I guess we have established that you follow your favorite flavor of political ideology no matter what the consequences are in terms of human cost. Seems difficult to carry on a normal exchange of ideas with religious and political absolutists. I speak of clean water, science education, medical competence and you worry about getting your hair cut.
coolgreyoneabby 4 months ago
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty You are just now starting to get the point. In a fully libertarian world, there would be none of those pesky regulations that would stop the guy dumping raw sewage upstream from you, no one requiring an education to perform surgery on your kid, demonstrate the drugs you take have been tested for safety and efficacy, and so on. As society gets more complicated and some people abuse their "freedoms" hurting other people, some rules are not necessarily bad thing.
coolgreyoneabby 4 months ago
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@Vote4RonPaulLiberty You are just now starting to get the point. In a fully libertarian world, there would be none of those pesky regulations that would stop the guy dumping raw sewage upstream from you, no one requiring an education to perform surgery on your kid, demonstrate the drugs you take have been tested for safety and efficacy, and so on. As society gets more complicated and some people abuse their "freedoms" hurting other people, some rules are not necessarily bad thing.
coolgreyoneabby 4 months ago
@Gaz6231 Oh, and if you teach your children what you proposed then it's none of my business.
Vote4RonPaulLiberty 4 months ago
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@Gaz6231 Oh, and if you teach your children what you proposed then it's none of my business.
Vote4RonPaulLiberty 4 months ago
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty Science is the best tool ever developed to separate myth from reality. Science has unlocked many mysteries of the universe once only speculated by religion. Our children deserve to learn the best in our quest for knowledge. Freedom of speech and religion is a poor excuse to lower the bar for the quality of our childrens' education. Science changes because it strives to constantly improve human knowledge. Religion is stuck with belief in mythology.
coolgreyoneabby 4 months ago
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty are you retarded??? YES YOU HAVE TO BE SCIENTIFICALLY LITERATE TO BE A TEACHER. When was the last time you called a plumber who didnt know plumbing?
mignik01 4 months ago
@mignik01 No, I am not retarded. You are rude and immature.
Vote4RonPaulLiberty 4 months ago
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty oh yeah. it sometimes gets on my nerve when someone doesnt understand the first thing about education and bothers to comment on it.
mignik01 4 months ago
@mignik01 Then you must be extremely frustrated with yourself.
Vote4RonPaulLiberty 4 months ago
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty Nope. Actually. I'm not the one who said teaching the scientific consensus is following a belief. which for someone working in academia, is as stupid as it gets.
mignik01 4 months ago
@mignik01 I said individuals are free to believe and promote or reject whatever they choose regardless of what you or Neil want. There was a time when scientists said that no planet could have two suns. Science has 'proven' lots of things that have turned out to be incorrect. So many historical figures were persecuted for their beliefs and theories only to be proven right years after their death. It's disgusting and horrific to think that you are still in that mind set.
Vote4RonPaulLiberty 4 months ago
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty Actually there is a correction. Science has never "proved" anything.
Historical figures like. lets say Boltzmann had a scientific idea presented in the form of a scientific paper. Talking nonsense to children doesnt count as one. Neil Tyson isnt talking about the string theory, nor the supersymmetry or dark matter.
Actually when did we say two suns are impossible? we have had the idea of binary star systems for quite a while now. its i think as early as the 19th century.
mignik01 4 months ago
@mignik01 Who is we? You are no authority.
Vote4RonPaulLiberty 4 months ago
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty people who dedicate their lives to do scientific research and publish their results. if it wasnt for those people you and I would still be living in the middle ages. People like Issac Newton and Albert Einstein.
mignik01 4 months ago
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty when i said we, I meant the whole human race, including you. Everything these great minds found out is available for you too. If u dont wanna learn, well thats your choice.
mignik01 4 months ago
@mignik01 Do you think I'm ignorant just because I believe in freedom? Richard Feynman was one of my favorite persons.
Vote4RonPaulLiberty 4 months ago
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty and do u think Feynman would've agreed to the fact that the teacher is teaching nonsense to children. He hated pseudo science.
mignik01 4 months ago
@mignik01 I know. And I don't care what he would've thought. I liked his personality and how he called NASA out for the boobs they indeed are.
Vote4RonPaulLiberty 4 months ago
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty I dont wanna get into NASA. I'm pointing at the fact that a teacher who says bible is the ultimate truth and whoever believes in evolution or any other religion is going to hell and points to a young students and tells her that she is doomed to hell, should fired from her profession.
mignik01 4 months ago
Richard Feynman once critiqued public school textbooks...it was funny and he was correct in his assessment. In many respects he wasn't exactly a fan of formal education. He also wasn't a fan of many scientists. Too many are FAR too narrow minded.
Vote4RonPaulLiberty 4 months ago
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty I agree. infact we are doing a lil project right now. cant get into the details of it, but for it i have sit through text books and had to find wrong examples. infact we found a lot of bad examples. and they were not high school text books.
That's not the point here. Textbooks having wrong examples and teachers teaching ridiculous concepts is not the same thing.
mignik01 4 months ago
@mignik01 Religion has no place in the classroom except in the teaching of theory. Same for evolution. All of it should be taught for what it is. Why hide the fact that huge numbers of people all throughout the world follow certain beliefs? It's true, they do.
Vote4RonPaulLiberty 4 months ago
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty u see thats where i call someone ignorant of science. If i didnt have theories to work with, i'd have nothing to work with. Science is built on theories. facts are interesting but not that useful.
mignik01 4 months ago
@mignik01 You call people ignorant for acknowledging and informing others as to differing theories?
Vote4RonPaulLiberty 4 months ago
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty nope. you can say that as long as u have theories and they are scientific.
mignik01 4 months ago
@mignik01 Actually, I can say anything I want to say. And I can say it to whomever I choose.
Vote4RonPaulLiberty 4 months ago
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@Vote4RonPaulLiberty not in the scientific community. unless you have the evidence to back up your position.
mignik01 4 months ago
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty You are half right. Religion has no place in a science classroom. Science belongs in a scenic classroom. Since geology, anthropology, archeology, evolution, biology and cosmology are all science and not religion, they are very good subjects to be taught in science class.
coolgreyoneabby 4 months ago
@coolgreyoneabby I'm not into splitting everything up into categories. Educating as to the world around us and differing views is what I'm talking about. You push select opinions then tell people they should think for themselves. Think about that.
Vote4RonPaulLiberty 4 months ago
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty Science is not opinion. Science is evidence based understanding of how nature works. Our kids deserve to learn what has been discovered using the scientific process. Religion is not science and I do not advocate teaching religion in science class, In fact I favor teaching science regardless if it pisses of some religious types. Censoring science based on religious opinion is just as bad as teaching religion itself.
coolgreyoneabby 4 months ago
@coolgreyoneabby Sure it is that's why scientists often disagree.
Vote4RonPaulLiberty 4 months ago
@Vote4RonPaulLiberty You are "free" to teach your children witchcraft, magic, superstition, false belief systems, nonsense, hokum, mythology, bad ideas, outdated belief systems, fiction, lunacy, violence, disrespect, racism, hate, lies, voodoo, hollow earth, etc. I think that the next generation deserves better, but you are "free" to disagree.
coolgreyoneabby 4 months ago
@coolgreyoneabby False beliefs to you perhaps, and that's the point. I never said I believed in any of that which you listed. I said it's none of your business what other people believe. Discussing it is one thing, enacting laws to force views on others is something altogether different.
Vote4RonPaulLiberty 4 months ago
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TheWanderingPrimate 4 months ago
Where can I get the full keynote?
RickyRecruit 4 months ago
Religion is the realm of the unexplainable, not the explainable.
My brother (a teacher) said to a parent, "I'm teaching science, not religion."
It is religion that contradicts the facts, not science that contradicts religion.
Because science can question itself, the true story coalesces *from* chaos. It doesn't create chaos, but eliminates it; on the other hand, trying to fit facts to the story *does* create chaos, and ever expanding, convoluted explanations.
kikiorg 4 months ago
All scientist should be very actively denouncing the FRAUD that all religious beliefs are, but most of them don't bother or are just too wimp to do so. We need to have hundreds of Dawkins or Harris, then this scourge will not last another 200 years.
fidenful 4 months ago 2
I think most of us would love to embrace religion and have supposedly inherited love and hope in our lives. We can be at peace and all just live our lives happily. Why would we WANT to discover and acknowledge that the universe might be a completely hopeless place, and that our existence means NOTHING on the grand scale of it? A: Because that is where the evidence, the truth, leads us, whether the outcome is sad or not sad. (which it isn't, I certainly love many things and have much hope)
Arcexey 5 months ago
loving the vest
kelbykross1 5 months ago
No God of mine would want me to stay ignorant of the mechanisms of his glorious creation. That's just the strawman created by brainless God-haters like Neil Tyson. But yea, keep "thinking" instead of researching, Neil. Ensure your place in history as a quack philosopher rather than a groundbreaking scientist.
tpstrat14 5 months ago
@tpstrat14
"No God of mine would want me to stay ignorant of the mechanisms of his glorious creation."
Then you are not a bible literalist. Ever heard of the Tree of Knowledge that people were not supposed to eat from??
You, like most other religious people, seem to give your god the same morality and priorities you have and all other interpretations are wrong,
I was like that once. Then I read the bible and realized that I was a better and more sane person than the god of the bible.
blkswimmer 5 months ago
@blkswimmer Agreed. The god of the bible is not a god at all. I believe in a creator of the universe, but I don't believe in hell. I believe life is a gift and that god is not jealous. EVERYONE and I mean EVERYONE goes to heaven to live with God for eternity in perfect bliss and happiness. I'm not sure what that means exactly, but I can't see any other way. Life can't just end at death. That would be ridiculous...
tpstrat14 5 months ago
@tpstrat14 I'm going to ask you for something that I ask all religious people, even my friends. Do you have any evidence that the universe was created by a higher being? Any evidence of this "heaven" of which you speak? Because until some one provides me with evidence that there is a god and (s)he created everything, I'm going to reject all religious claims
lisn92 5 months ago
@lisn92 Check your common sense. It's deep down there somewhere. It just doesn't make any sense that the universe would pop into existence WITH conscious beings if there was no higher being that did it. No scientific proof of god is possible. Even if it was, most atheists like yourself would reject it....
tpstrat14 5 months ago
@tpstrat14
"Life can't just end at death. That would be ridiculous..."
By your logic life couldn't have started at birth. That would be ridiculous..
Do remember life before your birth?? No. That is because you are a brain with a body. That is all.
"It just doesn't make any sense that the universe would pop into existence"
We don't know if the universe always existed or not. I think it did.
"if there was no higher being that did it"
Then what created God?? Did it just pop into existence??
blkswimmer 5 months ago
@tpstrat14
"No scientific proof of god is possible. Even if it was, most atheists like yourself would reject it...."
Really? Many Atheist follow the scientific method. Science is the unbiased pursuit of the understanding. Science follows where the evidence leads and you know this.
The ones who reject evidence by the truck load are the religious
blkswimmer 5 months ago
@tpstrat14 dude, check your common sense, the universe just didnt pop into exsistance with creatures already here, it took hundreds of billions of years
lisn92 5 months ago
@lisn92 I'm not talking about how long it took, I'm talking about the fact that you and I exist now. For you and I to exist, there must be a creator...
tpstrat14 5 months ago
@tpstrat14 no, you said that it doesnt make any sense for a universe to pop into existance with conscious beings, and a pop takes maybe 1 or 2 seconds max. and also as i said before prove this claim that there is a creator and ill be converted. until that time, i will still reject your claims thats there is a god and that he created everything. i mean people used to believe that the earth was the centre of the universe cus god made the earth, until science proved that wrong lol
lisn92 5 months ago
@lisn92 The universe making sense isn't proof against God. lol.... you atheists like to say that type of thing.
tpstrat14 5 months ago
@tpstrat14 i never said it was, i was just saying that religion is an outdated way to control the masses, and that science and our understanding of the universe has shown us how small we are
lisn92 5 months ago
@lisn92 Science and our understanding has shown us how small we are? How so? Did anyone with any sense ever deny our smallness, even in places where not much was known about astronomy? I think people have always known how physically small they were, well before any kind of scientific discoveries were made...... so we're small, what's your point?
tpstrat14 5 months ago
@tpstrat14 dude im saying that religion led people to believe that we as human beings are the most important life form in the universe and that the earth was the centre of the universe. And science has proved that we are not infact the most important, or even the biggest, and that even the earth isnt at the centre of the universe. You can keep trying to make me sound like a retard who deserves an eternity in hell, but seriously you're a fucking religious nut job on a science vid
lisn92 5 months ago
@lisn92 I'm not going to cite scriptures because I abhor Christianity--- (although not NEARLY as much as I abhor your hateful, religion-bashing atheism). I am a deist of sorts and therefore I will cite common sense. Science has proven just how SIGNIFICANT we are, not how insignificant we are. Imagine there is a being in a universe that can figure out the physical laws that govern it. That intelligence makes that being LESS significant?! God loves you even though you're an ass, don't worry..
tpstrat14 5 months ago
@tpstrat14 so ur saying that we as a planet, are signififcant? when theres billions of stars in the universe, and then lets say that only half of them have planets orbiting around them, and like our solar system each star has 3 planets in the goldey locks zone, thats a whole lot of planets that can support life. our little rock isnt anything special, we could of ended up on venus or mars. ffs there are planets bigger then ours in our own solar system, and that doesnt make u feel small?
lisn92 5 months ago
@lisn92 That we've been able to figure all that stuff out that you said and there's no end in sight to our knowledge..... that is pure testament that if there is anything more significant than us in the universe, it has to quite the intelligent being!!! (obviously all the stars combined is nothing compared to one living being)
tpstrat14 5 months ago
@tpstrat14 ok, right you believe in god, maybe u can answer some of these questions. How come there are contradictions in the bible if it is the word of god, and god is perfect? how come dogs have a better sense of smell the humans, and how come eagles have better eye sight then humans, was god payin more attention to them while he made them? how do you know god is a man? what do you say to the people that say the bible is just a rip off of ancient egyptian beliefs. also dont refer to the bible
lisn92 5 months ago
@lisn92 I don't even believe in the bible.... go home, loser
tpstrat14 5 months ago
@tpstrat14 it sure as hell isn't proof FOR one...
doaftheloaf 4 months ago
@tpstrat14 or an undirected series of natural processes, such as evolution by natural selection.
doaftheloaf 4 months ago
@tpstrat14 that's an argument from ignorance. "i don't know, so it must have been god."
if no scientific proof of god is possible, it is unreasonable to believe in one. if there is scientific proof of god, we'd need to see it before we'd know whether we'd reject it or not.
and i'm certain tyson has done far more research than you ever have, btw.
doaftheloaf 4 months ago
What is funny about this...is that he acts just like a televangelist.
Godraideen 5 months ago
Who cares if is speaks or acts like as what you call a televangelist. It only matters to me that he is speaking truth which he is. I not saying this is necessarily your case but so many peopled get locked in to the presentation instead of just keeping to the message, which is always the most important. I don't care if the devil himself came to tell me about the realities of the universe as long as it was just factual truth!
16sag7 5 months ago
@16sag7 can i tell you about how the universe works through the means of interpretive dance?
lisn92 5 months ago
@Godraideen no, he's not asking for money...
doaftheloaf 4 months ago
@doaftheloaf actually yes, he is asking for money. Attendance to TAM REQUIRES the purchase of a ticket.
Godraideen 4 months ago
@Godraideen how much are the tickets and what is tyson's cut? how much does it cost for the TAM event organizers to stage the event? yes, tyson gets paid for his appearance, i'm sure, but he should.
if you think tyson is just like a televangelist, you have obviously never seen a televangelist at work.
doaftheloaf 4 months ago
@doaftheloaf how much do preachers ASK for money? What is the preachers cut? How much does it cost the church to hold services on every sunday and sometimes wednesday of the year. Sometimes mornings and nights. Yes evangelists get paid for their appearances, but they should.
If you think tyson does not act like a televangelist, you have obviously never seen a televangelist at work.
Godraideen 4 months ago
@Godraideen - It is WAY past time that science started playing the popularity game that religions have been playing for millennia. The problem has been that science has been busy learning, teaching, exploring and progressing civilization, and they haven't been much concerned with their PR, because frankly, who could disapprove of it? But now, in an age where we actually have hyper-ideological evangelicals who could potentially become PRESIDENT, I'm glad to see science making its voice heard.
TheWanderingPrimate 4 months ago
@doaftheloaf ....but I digress, you missed the point in its entirety in the first place. His demeanor on stage is just like a televangelist. He moves like one, speaks like one with the inflections in his voice. He is essentially "preaching" to the audience his perspective on the universe etc etc. He uses the same techniques to "wash" the people he speaks to as televangelists do. Sorry you cant discern this from simple you tube observations.
Godraideen 4 months ago
Wait a minute....you mean "The Flintstones" wasn't a documentary??
metatechnocrat 5 months ago
Dear god my ears
youtert 5 months ago 2
This just made my otherwise shitty day good.
DarkOnyx 5 months ago
"I got the universe to worry about."
best quote ever
detahdomo 5 months ago
YEAH THEY RUN ON THE INTERNET AND BELEIF IN FACTS THEY HAVENT EXPLORED LOLOLOLOL, ENGINEER PHYSCIST AND THEIST.
pliskin543 5 months ago
33 of Kent Hovinds cellmates voted down.
nolobede 5 months ago
I would follow Neil Degrasse Tyson into hell if he ever ran for president...
XTheHumanistX 5 months ago 4
Creationism undoubtedly should be taught in schools. In a Worlds Religions class. But a science class only represents what our best science believes and has been validated which is evolution, the Big Bang and that dinosaurs came and went before humans walked the earth
SagesOfSeraphim 5 months ago
@SagesOfSeraphim There really should be a more comprehensive World Religions course. I really would have liked to know more about Buddhism back in high school.
yerk3 5 months ago
Whenever I see this man speak, I realize that America selected the wrong Black American for president.
iz2sicc 5 months ago 43
@iz2sicc heh I disagree, but I would love for Neil to run as well :)
Tyson 2016?
KilljoyNL 5 months ago
@iz2sicc I love your comment XD
fuck1929 5 months ago
@iz2sicc
Hes a smart astrophysicist, him being black doesn't have anything to do with anything, Stop seeing race you moron.
dancingwithcalvin 4 months ago
@dancingwithcalvin First of all you ignoramous, I never once correlated his intelligence with his ethnic background. Secondly, I guarantee I've dealt with more racism than you ever will in your entire lifetime. I'm not living through past racism against my "people". I'm actually living with it. Lastly, if our current president was Asian, I would have made the same exact type of remark about Michio Kaku. Now kindly SHUT THE FUCK UP you overtly race sensitive, intellectually devoid ignorant fool.
iz2sicc 4 months ago
@iz2sicc
Idiot; doesn't matter what racism you go though, I dont give a fuck. And whatever it is, if your not black, its not relevant or comparable to what I went through, go through etc. I'm sure you would have said the same thing about Kaku. That's my point, stop seeing race first you moron. Try your best. And I never accused you of correlating him being black and his intelligence, I'm saying that by comparing him to Obama just because there b oth smart, and both black, if sucking stupid.
dancingwithcalvin 4 months ago
@dancingwithcalvin Yea, I'm sure you go around your daily life being called Nigger or receiving comments about the shape of your eyes. Sure, you face racism. Stereotypes? Yea, I don't doubt that. I face stereotypes too like the ever so popular penis size comments. I'm not comparing him to Obama. Again, you prove your ignorance. Obama is half Black. He is the first non-white president. All I am simply saying is I'd much rather have Neil Tyson, another Black person, as president.
iz2sicc 4 months ago
@dancingwithcalvin People like you piss me off. You search for any reason to pull the racism card. You take comments way out of context. You're almost as annoying as actual racists.
iz2sicc 4 months ago
@dancingwithcalvin By the way, for me to be a huge fan of Neil Tyson's speeches and lectures proves I saw his intelligence way before I saw his skin color.
And you call me the idiot?
iz2sicc 4 months ago
@iz2sicc
Neil could never be president anyway, he's not religious.
dancingwithcalvin 4 months ago
@dancingwithcalvin This would have been an awesome comment had it been in jest... but something tells me you're being very serious.
Reason being, what I said was meant as humor. Unfortunately, people like you exist that take things out of context just so they can pull the racism card.
iz2sicc 4 months ago
@iz2sicc
Im deffinitley not the type of person who liked to pull the racism card. Its awkward and not always necessarily. Ehh whatever I forgot what I was arguing, Good day.
dancingwithcalvin 4 months ago