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Showing Original Post only (View all)Neil deGrasse Tyson destroys argument for intelligent design [View all]
http://www.salon.com/2015/11/05/neil_degrasse_tyson_destroys_argument_for_intelligent_design_i_cannot_look_at_the_universe_and_say_that_yes_theres_a_god_and_this_god_cares_about_my_life_at_all/On the Nightly Show Wednesday evening, Neil deGrasse Tyson went toe-to-toe with celebrity pastor Carl Lentz and comedian Tom Papa on a panel debating science and religion, saying that he rejected the notion of kindness and benevolence that goes hand in hand with peoples belief in God.
Any time someone describes their understanding of God, typically it involves some statement of benevolence or some kind of kindness, Tyson explained.
I look out to the universe and yes, it is filled with mysteries, but its also filled with all manner of things that would just as soon have you dead. Like asteroid strikes, and hurricanes, and tornadoes, and tsunamis, and volcanoes, and disease, and pestilence, he continued. There are things that exist in the natural world that do not have your health or longevity as a priority. And so I cannot look at the universe and say that yes, theres a God, and this God cares about my life at all. The evidence does not support this.
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Hey, watch it. I had some schmevidence with my steak the other night, loved it.
randys1
Nov 2015
#118
The thermodynamic argument behind Intelligent Design has a simple mathematical error.
DetlefK
Nov 2015
#3
I think of it as a nuclear reactor that is 93 million miles away from the nearest elementary school
eridani
Nov 2015
#159
The smallest features in microprocessors are 15-20 nm. The smallest feature in an organism is <1nm.
DetlefK
Nov 2015
#226
That's either Lazarus Long or Jubal Harshaw speaking from Robert A. Heinlein's typewriter !
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2015
#18
And certainly some folks- like 12 steppers- are comfortable doing all sorts of semantic gymnastics
Warren DeMontague
Nov 2015
#167
Unfortunately, that requires a couple of very uncomfortable admissions that theists aren't ready to
Warpy
Nov 2015
#106
And even that seems implausible when you think about it. We're used to everything having...
ChisolmTrailDem
Nov 2015
#181
Would you like the Noah's Ark antibiotics or the ones that were intelligently designed?
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2015
#19
Being "created" by something was a way for early manking to make sense of the world.
ladyVet
Nov 2015
#20
Why would you post something that clearly wrongly attributes a quote to someone?
tabasco
Nov 2015
#119
Possibly the most idiotic piece of bumper sticker non-wisdom ever floated by the bs brigade.
Warren DeMontague
Nov 2015
#168
yet there is no evidence that a higher power doesnt exist. Enjoy your high horse.
7962
Nov 2015
#187
It is not somehow, science can give you the play by play down to what the atoms are doing.
Rex
Nov 2015
#75
Not at all hard to hash out. You have billions of years and trillions of objects colliding together
Rex
Nov 2015
#82
But now you're left with the harder problem of explaining where God came from ...
GeorgeGist
Nov 2015
#141
Also the mere fact of thousands of religions in the world, compounded with all the unknown
Rex
Nov 2015
#89
I started with encounters with Conway's program, referenced in Peter Gleick's book on Chaos.
immoderate
Nov 2015
#109
that is what often hangs me up is the beginning of the beginning of the universe
restorefreedom
Nov 2015
#49
The problem is that you have a problem of infinite regress, something had to have caused that...
Humanist_Activist
Nov 2015
#110
The thing is that the Big Bang is practically the only gap left for the "God of the gaps" to occupy.
Humanist_Activist
Nov 2015
#117
The Big Bang, from what we can tell, is the literal beginning, there was no "before"...
Humanist_Activist
Nov 2015
#160
He argues for a multiverse, not an infinite universe, those are different things...
Humanist_Activist
Nov 2015
#209
They could have triggered it maybe, but I doubt any information traveled from previous universes...
Humanist_Activist
Nov 2015
#216
You seem to forget that life on Earth is fine tuned for conditions on Earth, not the other way...
Humanist_Activist
Nov 2015
#114
Even if that assertion is true as you excerpted it(uncredited I might add), I don't...
Humanist_Activist
Nov 2015
#207
There are millions of planets in this galaxy; many are at the right distance from their sun
muriel_volestrangler
Nov 2015
#172
And an article on more recent thinking about the origins of cells, and the use of energy:
muriel_volestrangler
Nov 2015
#175
Loved Neil on with Bill Moyer speaking about Religion, Science and the Universe.
Stellar
Nov 2015
#51
I don't believe we're important enough to have a creator. Humans are fairly close to being nothing.
BlueJazz
Nov 2015
#153
Atheists can be pretty quick to congratulate themselves on debate points ...
King_Klonopin
Nov 2015
#161
Actually those only disprove a benevolent god, however, the fact is that...
Humanist_Activist
Nov 2015
#211