Posted on 03/10/2014 6:58:19 AM PDT by Heartlander
I found it ironic scientist questioning global warming are treated the same way as Bruno. Like a religious heretic. Degrase emphasized that we must “question” because that is the scientific process.
However, remember: global warming is a done deal, no questions, no debates allowed.
Second, I did not like the global warming lecture.
Next, the music was loud, awful, and unnecessary.....they tried to make it into a sci-fi thriller. I had to turn it down. I think it dumbed down the show.
And last, Tyson was good, and himself, but I much prefer Sagan's original series.....and Sagan's presentation. I wish they had changed the name of this new version and had left the name Cosmos as Sagan's alone. It was so unique, and well-done that it should stand alone as the only Cosmos.
Here is the wikipage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series)
I said “billions and billions” a couple of times while watching. My wife didn't get it until I explained it to her. She laughed at me for being weird.
There was a quick reference when he was talking about the formation of coal from trees.
Agreed.
Kind of ironic too that mainstream science the inquisition of our times. The science inquisition. If you question global warming, you are a heretic and banished from publications, newspapers, and the general media.
Exactly. My wife noticed that and pointed it out to me. I missed it.
Bruno was a maniac who was responsible for having priceless works of Renaissance art burned in the public square of Florance, where, fortunately, he met his own demise later since the citizens there had enough of his insanity.
I will have to check this series out for myself to see what they are presenting. DeGrasse Tyson was on FOX over the weekend and noted that the show was shown on FOX and will be aired tonight on National Geographic which is partially FOX owned. If this series attacks religion, FOX didn't do its home work.
Just as with biological evolution, you can believe in the science without being atheist, although atheists would like you to believe otherwise. We may find out the “how” but only religion can tell us the “why”.
Christianity, in the form of Catholicism, saved western civilization.
It was monks, toiling away in the monasteries, copying priceless ancient manuscripts, and not Islam, which preserved the knowledge of the Ancient World. Clergymen like Bacon, Copernicus, and Mendel, made valuable contributions to modern science.
And Gallileo’s problems, while ostensibly religious, had more to do with Gallileo’s personality and Italian politics, than with sience.
Yet, persecution of scientists with a point of view different from the mainstream goes on, and on, with the scientist in question eventually proven correct, even if it takes hundreds of years.
I remember in college, all those long decades ago, being told in Geology 101 that mountains were created by the wearing down of the land over eons ... it was settled science.
Some grad student, leading the class one day, mentioned there was some guy with the wacky theory that the surface of the Earth was composed of plates which moved! And these collided to make mountains ... a good laugh was had by all.
Then years later, after the scientist had died ignored and disgraced, some other grad student proved he was right ... and so the science of plate tectonics came to be.
Disgusting. I shoulod have known better. These people are so vile. They can’t help but inject a political agenda into EVERYTHING they get involved with.
deGrasse Tyson runs the Hayden Planetarium in New York City, so one would expect him to be a Democrat, but he apparently went out of his way to attack us here.
The interviewer looks like a degenerate sodomite if I evere saw one.
Anybody who follows the astronomy threads here at FR knows that I love the sciences but I have little use for such disrespect.
Cosmos ping
I was educated as a scientist, and have no problem reconciling the Bible with evolution and the Big Bang Theory. Love reading cosmology and astronomy and biology books and papers also.
I really, really, really despise the liberal establishment and blame their monopoly on the colleges and mainstream media for all the problems, domestic and foreign, America is experiencing today. I saw it in the 1960’s when I was in college and it is worse today.
The only kind of Republic which can function is a Republic of Virtue and they are destroying that here.
It sucked.
The one singular message of the show was “Catholics are evil.”
I have two simple questions for physicists. 1. What existed prior to the big bang? 2. What caused the big bang?
The sound you hear after that is crickets, chirping very quietly.
I love this irony. Creationists teach their children dysfunctional science, taking them out of the competition. Sweet.
His defense strategy involved acquiescing to Church dogma while holding onto his views on cosmology. The Inquisitor would not accept less than a full recantation of all beliefs. Bruno at length refused which led to the sentence of death. He was burned at the stake by Roman secular officials.
As with Galileo, his persecution by the church likely had more to do with his abrasive personality and obnoxious tactics than his cosmology. Contrast these two with Copernicus who published similarly radical ideas about the cosmos 30+ years before his death (the Commentariolus) without suffering imprisonment or similar persecution.
"question everything,"
Except man-made climate change.
put things to the test.
Except sun-based or other alternative theories of climate change.
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