Cosmos & Neil Degrasse Tyson state that Great Flood occurred in Sumeria & retold as Noah's Ark

[JoePhilly]

131. Cosmos is slowly turning the tables on the Creationists.

The approach Creationists use to attack science and evolution is to try and find questions that science does not yet answer, and then they point to those gaps and declare "ah ha!, there is a God!".

Cosmos is not only putting together a well constructed story about how things came to be the way they are, its also taking some well known religious myths and explaining them. By doing so, it opens questions about Creationism that the Creationists can't answer.

The existence of flood myths that precede the story of Noah creates a dilemma for the Creationists. If they claim there were many floods, that hurts the Creationist theory. If they claim all of these civilizations are talking about the same flood, then that calls the Creationist's time line into question.

Past that, when Creationists claim the Grand Canyon is evidence of the great flood (rather than erosion that took 100s of millions of years), it begs the question, why is there only ONE Grand Canyon. If the great flood covered the earth, and created the Grand Canyon in a relatively short time period (less than 6000 years), then there should be other formations like the Grand Canyon. But there are not.

The game of pointing out "gaps" in scientific knowledge and in evolution can be turned right back around. Creationism doesn't really explain anything at all.

Comos doesn't have to attack Creationism directly. It simply needs to allow the obvious questions and gaps in Creationism to come forward.