Neil Degrasse Tyson: "If you're scientifically literate the world looks very different to you"

Full interview link: Conversations at KCTS 9: Neil Degrasse Tyson (Airdate: July 3,2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrTTta55i5Q

"At least once a week, if not once a day, we might each ponder what cosmic truths lie undiscovered before us, perhaps awaiting the arrival of a clever thinker, an ingenious experiment, or an innovative space mission to reveal them. We might further ponder how those discoveries may one day transform life on Earth."
~Neil Tyson

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[shinryu1285]

@PhrygianBlack A dislike button clicked from a Computer via Mouse. The pure irony.

[PrometheanRunGood]

@ManofManyPasswords That's bullshit, scientific literacy has nothing to do with intelligence. You are basically trashing everything Neil Degrasse Tyson is trying to do, which is to bring scientific literacy to a wider group of people regardless of their intelligence.

[gtas321]

@Varoonmg But I do somewhat understand what you explained. But to down oneself in general is always bad for me.

[gtas321]

@Varoonmg You mean "they are ignorant". And no, not anyone can criticize a Creationist. If you were philosophically literate then you would understand that some creationist ideas make a lot of sense and aren't too far off. I am deist myself and even I know that some creationist ideas aren't as stupid as presumed.

[Varoonmg]

@gtas321 He was just trying to say that despite not being as brilliant as some of the brightest scientific minds on the planet, one can still appreciate the beauty of it all...it was a way to be Humble...

and anyone has the right to criticise Creationists....they are ignorants...

[gtas321]

@Mikeybetts Honestly having a low IQ just doesn't give you the right to criticize anyone. Stating that you scored low on the test shows that you have low self confidence and without any confidence then how am I supposed to be sure of anything that you say?

[RECKOGNING1]

no intelligence is knowledge if u know how things work and how to live u basiclly hav all the knowledge u need

[SallySunshine001]

Neil deGrasse Tyson for president!!

[icarus313]

@newj34

The statement "seeing the world through an evolutionary lens" makes about as much sense as claiming that there may be an alternative explanation as to why we fall down, but scientists are just "looking at the world through a gravitational lens". Ridiculous! The whole point of science is that you're investigating the world by testing it and just letting the evidence speak for itself. The answers are what they are - often, in spite of, rather than because of, our prior beliefs!

[archiecrisis]

13 people failed science class in high school

[t3601su]

@tommyseventysix It's an open question if Neil was given absolute power that it would go to his head, causing him to screw up big time. But given the "exit strategy" that the GOP is attempting now, i'm willing to give him a shot at it. The bar is extraordinarily low at the moment.

[blackmetalwhiteguy]

He's right that you're disenfranchising yourself by lacking scientific literacy. A friend of mine is writing a novel that takes place on another planet and ran it by me for some criticism. I pointed out some major physics flaws and now he's rewriting it because, while he's no scientist, he acknowledges that establishing scientific plausibility is a necessary step in relating earnestly to his potential audience. You don't need to be a "scientist" to understand science or to care about it.