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Neil DeGrasse Tyson talking about the impact of Nasa.
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A voice for reason
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Re: A voice for reason
In the absence of God, I found Man.
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Are you pushing your own short comings on us and safely hating them from a distance?
Is this the virtue of faith? To never change your mind: especially when you should?
Young Earth Creationists take offense at the idea that we have a common heritage with other animals. Why is being the descendant of a mud golem any better?
-Guillermo Del Torro
Are you pushing your own short comings on us and safely hating them from a distance?
Is this the virtue of faith? To never change your mind: especially when you should?
Young Earth Creationists take offense at the idea that we have a common heritage with other animals. Why is being the descendant of a mud golem any better?
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Re: A voice for reason
In the absence of God, I found Man.
-Guillermo Del Torro
Are you pushing your own short comings on us and safely hating them from a distance?
Is this the virtue of faith? To never change your mind: especially when you should?
Young Earth Creationists take offense at the idea that we have a common heritage with other animals. Why is being the descendant of a mud golem any better?
-Guillermo Del Torro
Are you pushing your own short comings on us and safely hating them from a distance?
Is this the virtue of faith? To never change your mind: especially when you should?
Young Earth Creationists take offense at the idea that we have a common heritage with other animals. Why is being the descendant of a mud golem any better?
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Re: A voice for reason
Concerning Sagan and Tyson:
I admired Sagan for his intellect, but often found him a bit arrogant when some one disagreed with him. Tyson on the other hand, seems more down to earth and not so prickly. Just my personal thought - please don't turn this into a flame war.
I admired Sagan for his intellect, but often found him a bit arrogant when some one disagreed with him. Tyson on the other hand, seems more down to earth and not so prickly. Just my personal thought - please don't turn this into a flame war.
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Re: A voice for reason
cattleman you son of a bee's hind!
haha!
No, i know what you are saying. it can be frustrating trying to communicate when people are giving you the hear-no-evil treatment.
Tyson does a great job of reaching out and trying to include people. A talent i have in short supply.
That's something i pointed out in my original couple of posts in this thread, is the need to be sensitive, in a way, to where people are starting in this discussion.
Tyson speaks on the point.
haha!
No, i know what you are saying. it can be frustrating trying to communicate when people are giving you the hear-no-evil treatment.
Tyson does a great job of reaching out and trying to include people. A talent i have in short supply.
That's something i pointed out in my original couple of posts in this thread, is the need to be sensitive, in a way, to where people are starting in this discussion.
Tyson speaks on the point.
In the absence of God, I found Man.
-Guillermo Del Torro
Are you pushing your own short comings on us and safely hating them from a distance?
Is this the virtue of faith? To never change your mind: especially when you should?
Young Earth Creationists take offense at the idea that we have a common heritage with other animals. Why is being the descendant of a mud golem any better?
-Guillermo Del Torro
Are you pushing your own short comings on us and safely hating them from a distance?
Is this the virtue of faith? To never change your mind: especially when you should?
Young Earth Creationists take offense at the idea that we have a common heritage with other animals. Why is being the descendant of a mud golem any better?
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Re: A voice for reason
Looks like an apolog is in order here. I have read several of Sagan's books; watched Cosmos when it ran on PBS, and wept when he died. If he took umbrage with his critics, that only made him human, like the rest of us. So if I have offended anyone by my prior post, I sincerely apologize.
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Re: A voice for reason
I was surfing (the net) earlier this morning, and ran across a round table discussion between Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, and Arthur C. Clarke. Not sure exactly when it was taped, but it was around 1988-89; some clues; Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" had just been published and the Hubble space telescope had not yet been launched. Hawking was already confined to a wheelchair, and had lost the ability to speak, using a voice synthesizer.
Who would have believed, 20+ years later, that of the three, Hawking would be the survivor?
Who would have believed, 20+ years later, that of the three, Hawking would be the survivor?
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Re: A voice for reason
yep. Hawking's chair is running on duracels.
It's ok if you don't particularly like Sagan. Everybody has their own tastes in personalities.
I like Sagan quite a lot, but i'm not going to get all rooster if you don't.
It's ok if you don't particularly like Sagan. Everybody has their own tastes in personalities.
I like Sagan quite a lot, but i'm not going to get all rooster if you don't.
In the absence of God, I found Man.
-Guillermo Del Torro
Are you pushing your own short comings on us and safely hating them from a distance?
Is this the virtue of faith? To never change your mind: especially when you should?
Young Earth Creationists take offense at the idea that we have a common heritage with other animals. Why is being the descendant of a mud golem any better?
-Guillermo Del Torro
Are you pushing your own short comings on us and safely hating them from a distance?
Is this the virtue of faith? To never change your mind: especially when you should?
Young Earth Creationists take offense at the idea that we have a common heritage with other animals. Why is being the descendant of a mud golem any better?
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In the absence of God, I found Man.
-Guillermo Del Torro
Are you pushing your own short comings on us and safely hating them from a distance?
Is this the virtue of faith? To never change your mind: especially when you should?
Young Earth Creationists take offense at the idea that we have a common heritage with other animals. Why is being the descendant of a mud golem any better?
-Guillermo Del Torro
Are you pushing your own short comings on us and safely hating them from a distance?
Is this the virtue of faith? To never change your mind: especially when you should?
Young Earth Creationists take offense at the idea that we have a common heritage with other animals. Why is being the descendant of a mud golem any better?
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This may have already been noted here, but I will take a chance and post it anyway. It is one of my faorite quotes:
"The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." -Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain (1979).
"The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." -Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain (1979).
Love what you do, and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. -Ray Bradbury
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it. -Robert A. Heinlein
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Re: A voice for reason
Feynman on curiosity.
Part 3 of the Feynman series.
In the absence of God, I found Man.
-Guillermo Del Torro
Are you pushing your own short comings on us and safely hating them from a distance?
Is this the virtue of faith? To never change your mind: especially when you should?
Young Earth Creationists take offense at the idea that we have a common heritage with other animals. Why is being the descendant of a mud golem any better?
-Guillermo Del Torro
Are you pushing your own short comings on us and safely hating them from a distance?
Is this the virtue of faith? To never change your mind: especially when you should?
Young Earth Creationists take offense at the idea that we have a common heritage with other animals. Why is being the descendant of a mud golem any better?