Sub-Orbital Space Flights & Satellite Exploration
Sun, Nov. 23, 2006 From The Science Network Neil deGrasse Tyson discusses the apparent un-intelligent design of the cosmos. www.beyondbelief2006.org
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This is a clip from Richard Dawkins on Harun Yahya’s Atlas of Creation richarddawkins.net
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Carl Sagan’s scientific series about Universe and Cosmos
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Do Atheists Believe In Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life? / Video Do atheists believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life? Many do, despite the fact there is no evidence to support such. Yet they refuse to believe in Gods existence, despite the evidence. Such is the clouded thinking of the atheists. From rosaryfilms of Secret of the Rosary Films.
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Carl Sagan’s scientific series about Universe and Cosmos
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Richard Dawkins: it seems that it would take less than half a million years to evolve a good camera eye … It’s no wonder ‘the’ eye has evolved at least 40 times independently around the animal kingdom … It is a geological blink. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous – indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose. if there is only one Creator who made the tiger and the lamb, the cheetah and the gazelle, what is He playing at? Is he a sadist who enjoys spectator blood sports? … Is he manuvering to maximize David Attenborough’s television ratings? … the true utility function of life, that which is being maximized in the natural world, is DNA survival. But DNA is not floating free; it is locked up in living bodies and it has make the most of the levers of power at its disposal. The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference. The universe is a strange and wondrous place. The truth is quite odd enough to need no help from pseudoscientific charlatans. You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being … Such is the privilege of living after Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Planck, Watson, Crick and their colleagues. For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most …
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2006 Neil degrasse Tyson closes the three day lecture series with an excellent final “sermon” on cosmic perspective and the impact of science. Notice Dawkins in the audience.
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Michio Kaku talks to Bill Hemmer about a new Asteroid dectector
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The panel features Richard Dawkins, Neil degrasse Tyson, Ann Druyan and Victor Stenger. Moderated by DJ Grothe (of Point of Inquiry), it took place at the New York Academy of Sciences at a Center for Inquiry conference titled “Secular Society and its Enemies.” The panel discusses atheism versus science, science education, the nature of science, various strategies for advancing society in society, threats to science education including religion and popular culture, racism and sexism in science, and many other topics. For more information, visit www.centerforinquiry.net
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A lot of the language around science seems to want to provoke a feeling in the reader/listener akin to the ‘spiritual’. It is found in mild form in authors such as Dawkins and Hawking, and especially Sagan, who use poetic turns of phrase which seem crafted to infer spiritual sensations such as awe, connection with eternity or the infinite, purposiveness, mindfulness etc. This spiritualisation of science is very present in many Youtube videos, which combine aphorisms and ideas appropriated from the sciences, often accompanied by inspirational images taken by the Hubble space telescope or of the Large Hadron Collider with an appropriately ‘cosmic’ musical soundtrack. In general this is all well and good. Science isn’t made any more or less valid by its spiritualisation so if it helps with understanding or appreciation then that’s fine by me. What does concern me is the type of science that tends to feature in these epiphanies and the version of spirituality which is thereby implied. The most iconic images for spiritual science (apart from QM) tend to come from those scientific endeavours I mention above; the Hubble Space Telescope and the LHC, both examples of ‘Big Science’. The LHC has cost in the region of £5.6 Billion, ($9 Billion), and the Hubble slightly more so far; money which could have been spent elsewhere, possibly to better effect. As a point of contrast, suppose that amount had been invested in human welfare, perhaps the feeding of starving children (£0.82 per …
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