Neil deGrasse Tyson - "Stupid Design"

Neil deGrasse Tyson presents evidence to counter Intelligent Design and to demonstrate that the universe is often a hostile place that does not give preferential treatment to humans.

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Education

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• neil
• degrasse
• tyson
• universe
• evolution
• intelligent
• design
• entropy
• oblivion
• birth
• defect
• stupid

[TheFlST]

If god is real, may he strike me down right now...

...I'm still here.

Science FTW!

[ScientificSkeptic]

@mandarino53 Majestic? Yes, all of those majestic choking children! All of those majestic urinary tract infections caused by the proximity of a vagina and a urethra! All of those majestic people killed in auto accidents because there was a vehicle hiding in the majestic blindspot of their majestically designed eye! All of those majestic genetic deformities produced by a majestic intelligent designer! Your god is either incompetent, malevolent, or nonexistent.

[shackupyourstruly]

Physics can account for almost everything, but not how we treat our home or other lifeforms. {props to "G'd of Science": youtube.com/watch?v=1cQI1dRvYv­k }

[darthdan]

Even if the human body can be considered flawed, inefficient. How does that stop it from being a work of art? Isn't art subjective in the first place? People should really learn how to keep both worlds apart.

Example: Music, work of art.. so much math on it. But people don't really listen to it because of math do they? ;)

So yeah, we're headed for extinction, there's probably no higher being and if there is, he's far from being a good god. So many GOOD people die for no reason. Be open minded.

[darthdan]

If only people could agree in disagree everything would be better.

The only issues i see with religion is when ignorant fanatics either kill for their god or force others to their religion. I'm all for science and i agree with everything Neil Tyson basically says there, but there's no point in also forcing others to become atheists. It's basically the same as forcing some religion upon others, where's the freedom and science there?

There's no excuse for science illiteracy though.

[hansbo11]

your imaginary god is so full of fail.

[ScientificSkeptic]

@mandarino53 LOL, are you kidding?

[mandarino53]

@ScientificSkeptic

answers

in genesis.org

[mandarino53]

@ScientificSkeptic - Scientists and biologist, are showing that the design of the eye as it is, is rather intelligent.

[ScientificSkeptic]

@mandarino53 No, the solution is much simpler than that. Our eyes are so poorly designed, we have a hole in our retinas (the light sensitive part of our eye) where blood vessels in our eyes connect to the rest of our circulatory system, like designing a camera with electrical wiring hanging between the lens and film. Squids have eyes with the blood vessels beneath the retina, without blind spots. Why does your god value squid eyes over mammal eyes? Does he want people to die in collisions?

[mandarino53]

@ScientificSkeptic - The fact that the majority of people do not have urinary tract infection means that the problem is not with the design, but perhaps with hygiene. The fact that most of the planes that have been built never crash, but simply retire, shows that the problem is not with the design of the plane, but with human mistake, terrorists, weather. So to eliminate the blind spot would you have designed two more eyes on the side of your head? Frankenstein???