Astrophysicist and science/skeptical activist Neil deGrasse Tyson is working on a re-release of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, and this nicely autotuned Youtube video clip from melodysheep clearly shows why he is the right person for the job 🙂
Posts Tagged ‘astrophysics’
“We Are Star Dust” – Symphony of Science
Posted by mattusmaximus on May 12, 2012
Posted in scientific method, space | Tagged: astronomy, astrophysicist, astrophysics, autotune, autotuned, Carl Sagan, Cosmos, music, Neil deGrass Tyson, science, space, star stuff, stars, Symphony of Science, Tyson, universe, video, We are star stuff, youtube | Leave a Comment »
Bill O’Reilly Doubles Down on the Stupid: “How’d the Moon Get There?”
Posted by mattusmaximus on February 2, 2011
Recently, I’ve posted about how Fox News personality Bill O’Reilly displayed a great deal of scientific ignorance when he tried to argue that God exists because “we cannot explain the tides”. Of course, scientists do know how the tides work (as astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson states: it’s gravity from the Moon, duh); but rather than admit his error, Bill O’Reilly has decided to double down on the stupid. Just watch this…
Once again, O’Reilly makes the all-too-common argument from ignorance, specifically the god-of-the-gaps argument. Of course, we actually do have scientific answers to many of the questions brought up by Mr. O’Reilly. Let us examine some of his statements/claims… Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in physics denial/woo, religion | Tagged: argument from ignorance, astronomy, astrophysics, atheism, atheist, Bill O'Reilly, Deimos, ET, evolution, extra terrestrial, FN, Fox News, God, god of the gaps, gravity, Isaac Newton, life, mars, Moon, Newton, O'Reilly, ocean, Phobos, physics, stars, Sun, tidal forces, tides, universal law of gravitation, universe, water | 4 Comments »
Bill O’Reilly’s “Tides = God” Argument is Demolished by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Posted by mattusmaximus on January 29, 2011
As a humorous follow-up to my recent post called God, Gravity, and the Anti-Science Lunacy of Bill O’Reilly, I just wanted to share a hilarious clip from The Colbert Report with you. In it, Colbert does a marvelous job of, in his satirical way, calling Bill O’Reilly to the carpet on his god-of-the-gaps argument when he says:
Now, like all great theologies, Bill’s can be boiled down to one sentence: “There must be a God, because I don’t know how things work!”
In addition, Stephen Colbert is surprised when astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson drops by for a visit and explains why the tides actually work 🙂 …
Posted in humor, physics denial/woo, religion | Tagged: American Atheists, argument from ignorance, astrophysicist, astrophysics, atheism, atheist, Bill O'Reilly, billboards, Colbert, Colbert Report, David Silverman, FN, Fox News, God, god of the gaps, gravity, Isaac Newton, Moon, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Newton, O'Reilly, O'Reilly Factor, ocean, Stephen Colbert, tidal forces, tides, universal law of gravitation, universe, water | 3 Comments »
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