having come from a Young Earth background when I was 15, the weirdest thing is they don't merely rely on the Bible for that nonsense. Our youth group leader showed us a video of a Christian scientist (don't remember their specialty, possibly biology), who taught us the following nonsense:
*About an inch of dust collects on the moon every thousand years. Because of this, they were expecting much more dust on the moon during our first moon landing, and there wasn't much there at all!
*Organic objects get worse over time - if you leave an orange on the table for too long, it will rot and grow moldly. Evolution tells us organic objects get BETTER over time! That is obv absurd, amirite?
*The sun gets smaller every year - if the world was 6 billion years old, the sun would have been too gigantic at its genesis for other planets to survive (or something, I can't remember the exact nonsense he spouted)
Also my church's preacher claims to have disproven Evolution using a slime mold experiment. Yes, a grey-haired, Allman Brothers loving Georgia preacher did what scientists could not during a retreat in Alabama.
― Neanderthal, Monday, 31 March 2014 16:38 (ten years ago) link
I kind of admire but am also frustrated by the restraint and good taste they had in not having Patrick Stewart's animated character played up for laughs. Maybe in the James Burke Connections reboot...
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 31 March 2014 16:38 (ten years ago) link
xp I grew up in the chuch too, but I don't remember a bunch of creation vs. evolution instruction. I do remember having it grilled into me that pre-marital sex was DANGEROUS AND HORRIBLE, though.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 31 March 2014 16:40 (ten years ago) link
there were some folk in my youth group who took that to the next level and said sex itself was 'bad' and acted as if they'd only reluctantly participate when they got married.
meanwhile the guys in the group just whacked off a lot and lied about it
― Neanderthal, Monday, 31 March 2014 16:47 (ten years ago) link
I'm quite enjoying these! They seem to be mixing in more live action stuff w the animated as the show goes on. Also the animation style in some of these really reminds me of South Park, with the 2d cutouts w paper textures. Tho that might just be the standard way to animation things these days...
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 21:06 (ten years ago) link
the second episode on evolution was flat out wonderful, and brought me around the focus of the new series. My patience is still tried by the animated historical segments, but that's nothing. Looking forward to every episode now.
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 21:25 (ten years ago) link
http://thinkprogress.org/culture/2014/03/25/3418425/creationism-is-getting-a-lot-of-time-on-cosmos/
its the best animation seth mcfarlane has ever produced
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 21:26 (ten years ago) link
how come we can see things that are further than 6000-ish light years away?
We can't, we've just been fooled into thinking we can. That's the standard response, right?
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 21:29 (ten years ago) link
I think it will be the Blues For a Red Planet episode next week, so I can't wait for that one.
― xelab, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 21:30 (ten years ago) link
xp my fave apologetic for that is that god created the world 6,000 years ago, but he created an older world w/ lots of history + stuff including a much older universe, dinosaurs, etc
― Mordy , Tuesday, 1 April 2014 21:45 (ten years ago) link
it's kinda like the "idk get the fuck out of here" apologetic
― Mordy , Tuesday, 1 April 2014 21:46 (ten years ago) link
god put dinosaur bones in the ground to fuck w/ godless scientists
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 21:48 (ten years ago) link
I found it very emotive the first time he mentioned that snowy night in Brooklyn and meeting Carl Sagan as an impressionable young man, 2nd time is fucking pushing it.
― xelab, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 21:55 (ten years ago) link
because god allows us to see a glimpse of the eternal paradise that can be yours for only $9.99
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 22:07 (ten years ago) link
I want to go visit the Halls of Exinction so bad
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 22:25 (ten years ago) link
http://vimeo.com/56160700
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 3 April 2014 18:57 (ten years ago) link
http://media.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/vwGWK.jpeg
― caek, Thursday, 3 April 2014 19:03 (ten years ago) link
That is an awesome shirt. Damn, dude was ripped!
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 3 April 2014 21:03 (ten years ago) link
He never mentioned he was a hot young dude when he met Carl Sagan }:-)
― xelab, Thursday, 3 April 2014 21:26 (ten years ago) link
The Sagan meeting happened when he was 17 or so. I'd bet that photo is from a few years later.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 3 April 2014 21:30 (ten years ago) link
NGT was a competitive dancer in his college days which may account for that buff as hell physique
― art, Thursday, 3 April 2014 21:34 (ten years ago) link
WS so many times holy shit
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 April 2014 22:35 (ten years ago) link
how many times do you ppl have to be told that this is not appropriate
― recommend me a new bagman (darraghmac), Thursday, 3 April 2014 23:20 (ten years ago) link
drill datass tyson
― rhyme heals all goons (m bison), Friday, 4 April 2014 02:42 (ten years ago) link
How televised science should be done:
Neil Shubin's Your Inner Fish
― Congratulations! And my condolences. (Sanpaku), Thursday, 10 April 2014 18:17 (ten years ago) link
not presenting this as truth but
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BlSHAv-CYAAPjuK.jpg
― dan m, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 18:43 (ten years ago) link
Sorry, Isaac Newton, you're a shitbird.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 18:54 (ten years ago) link
this guy needs to make a slow jamz album
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 21:27 (ten years ago) link
The recent episode was cool, when they went inside the dew drop and he talked about that tiny species that can survive the vacuum of space. That's pretty mindblowing.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 18 April 2014 05:10 (ten years ago) link
https://24.media.tumblr.com/daa16a1cd6ff64cc5983a1e3a5df868c/tumblr_n3btn4J6RW1r0jlbgo1_400.gifHe looks like he's receiving the best head ever.
― tsrobodo, Thursday, 24 April 2014 19:56 (ten years ago) link
lol
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 24 April 2014 19:59 (ten years ago) link
hahaha
― balls, Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:35 (ten years ago) link
that is hilarious!
― xelab, Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:38 (ten years ago) link
When I was watching that live, I was like "um, this scene is making me uncomfortable" for some reason. Now I know the reason.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:40 (ten years ago) link
it's an imagination ship
― xelab, Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:46 (ten years ago) link
his actorliness kind of gets in the way of this show sometimes, for me.
― akm, Thursday, 24 April 2014 21:11 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/k9ucmnk.gif
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 28 April 2014 17:08 (ten years ago) link
a+
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 28 April 2014 17:09 (ten years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 28 April 2014 17:12 (ten years ago) link
Last night was a treat, I thought.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 28 April 2014 17:27 (ten years ago) link
The Cannon and Payne story was great.
― xelab, Monday, 28 April 2014 17:40 (ten years ago) link
i didn't know millipedes used to be the size of alligators. cool.
― smhphony orchestra (crüt), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 04:41 (ten years ago) link
One of my favorite things about NdT is how reliably in your face he is about "we are being stupid to still burn fossils for energy when there's a huge star with all the energy we will ever need!" Thought he nailed it particularly well towards the ending of last week's installment.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 05:46 (ten years ago) link
I haven't been impressed generally with this series so far -- I prefer nature docs to astronomy/physics/engineering/tech programs -- but the one a couple weeks ago about how there would be no trace of life (much less civilization) left after the Solar expansion thing was really chilling and mind-spinning.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Friday, 9 May 2014 17:52 (ten years ago) link
how there would be no trace of life (much less civilization) left after the Solar expansion <-- this is like the #1 thing that has plagued my mind since I was a kid
― smhphony orchestra (crüt), Friday, 9 May 2014 17:55 (ten years ago) link
I do love that after the sun expands and kills the inner planets, it shrinks back down to dim little luminous ball the size of the earth for eternity...like a little old man.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 9 May 2014 17:57 (ten years ago) link
this is like the #1 thing that has plagued my mind since I was a kid
you are alvie singer
― stadow shevens (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 9 May 2014 17:58 (ten years ago) link
http://theweek.com/article/index/261042/why-neil-degrasse-tyson-is-a-philistine
― caek, Friday, 9 May 2014 19:29 (ten years ago) link
don't find the argument compelling, agree 100% with the conclusion