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In reply to the discussion: ~Neil DeGrasse Tyson Shows Science And Religion Can Co-Exist In ‘Cosmos’~ [View all]Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)28. I've been into astronomy since I was about seven or eight
Vice President of the local junior astronomy league at twelve but I don't understand gravity and gravity is very important to astronomy, it keeps the planets in their orbits among other things and I know how to calculate those orbits and have software on my computer that does it.
Here's a picture of Comet Lovejoy and the Pleiades I took just recently. The original looks a good bit better than what I can squeeze onto DU..
http://www.democraticunderground.com/103639073
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~Neil DeGrasse Tyson Shows Science And Religion Can Co-Exist In ‘Cosmos’~ [View all]
NYC_SKP
Feb 2015
OP
Because religion purports to reveal truths about the universe that aren't true.
AtheistCrusader
Feb 2015
#2
We are currently facing several existential crisis, and the Bullshit Factory, which includes
Warren Stupidity
Feb 2015
#10
Some of those religions are predicated upon a hoped-for future die-off.
AtheistCrusader
Feb 2015
#14
When someone finds the middle ground between two camps, it pisses off the extremists...
NYC_SKP
Feb 2015
#7
The whales are all down here, but they should be passing through your region in a couple of months.
cbayer
Feb 2015
#13
To me, they aren't legitimate if they're stuck in their narrow POV. Good grief.
NYC_SKP
Feb 2015
#18
"Not all religions are evil Christianity, and not all Science is right." This is a nonsensical...
Humanist_Activist
Feb 2015
#19
Phenomenons are things that are happening in physical reality hence they are part of it
Fumesucker
Feb 2015
#24
No we don't, that's a stupid assertion, what we don't understand now we call unknown.
Humanist_Activist
Feb 2015
#39
Both series(both Carl Sagan's and Neil Degrasse Tyson's, and their hosts and producers...
Humanist_Activist
Feb 2015
#20