Television rarely fails to over-simplify anything. Could you elaborate on his "theological heresy" though? I haven't seen the episode yet, I intend to watch it after I'm done with Walking Dead and True Detective in order to decompress. |
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I'm putting this here so that we can discuss the science presented in the new Cosmos series hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson. The first episode premiered tonight. |
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Television rarely fails to over-simplify anything. Could you elaborate on his "theological heresy" though? I haven't seen the episode yet, I intend to watch it after I'm done with Walking Dead and True Detective in order to decompress. |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
What I mean by theological heresy is that he held ideas about theology that differed from Catholic doctrine. |
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The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended. - Frédéric Bastiat
I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves. - Christopher Hitchens
Formerly known as BLUELINE976
I'll still have to watch it for myself to see how deeply they skew his persecution as a result of heliocentric views, but I can understand why they skewed it that way, from an executive's standpoint ever pandering to the lowest common denominator. While it's now casually accepted that earth revolves around the sun, it's still heretical to claim Jesus was a magician or the devil will be saved. |
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Last edited by Original Poster; 03-10-2014 at 05:01 AM.
Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
Tonight's episode was great. It was on life and evolution. Very little to nitpick from what I could see. The depiction of what an organism sees with primitive eyes, just photosensitive cells, was brilliant. It was part of a measured rebuttal to the irreducible complexity argument. |
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The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended. - Frédéric Bastiat
I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves. - Christopher Hitchens
Formerly known as BLUELINE976
I can't wait until it turns into a massive climate change shame fest. |
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The general societal trend is of education to steadily overcome ignorance, but some rather bizarre things recently started to come out of America's science and history broadcasting, which was worrying. It's good to hear there's still a place for high quality popular science in the USA, which doesn't pander to "differing opinions" as if they're equally valid. |
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True. Channels like the History Channel and the Discovery Channel used to be pretty good. Now they're obsessed with ancient aliens, UFOs, and other supernatural hocus pocus. Only the Science Channel (which isn't on basic cable) is worth anything, though there have been some strange programs broadcast on it. |
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The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended. - Frédéric Bastiat
I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves. - Christopher Hitchens
Formerly known as BLUELINE976
Ah - seems I will have something to enjoy myself with here - the old and the new Cosmos stuff - I feel enticed! |
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I didn't have the chance to watch the new series yet because of my nationality, but I'm kind of worried about it.I read on some imageboards that the show was heavily "dumbed down" in comparison to the old series, one of the reasons being that it's airing on Fox. |
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The original aired on PBS. It had nothing to directly compete with, and from what I know there was no serious worry about science being tucked away in favor of superstition. Today, it's airing on Fox because it should be seen by as many people as possible. It is not quite a science documentary like the original. It's competing with the original's legacy and with a handful of other major popular-science shows. And there's New Age superstition and intelligent design to combat. |
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The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended. - Frédéric Bastiat
I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves. - Christopher Hitchens
Formerly known as BLUELINE976
Uuups - I checked to be sure - seems it's really on Fox. |
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It's on Fox, not Fox News. |
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The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended. - Frédéric Bastiat
I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves. - Christopher Hitchens
Formerly known as BLUELINE976
The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended. - Frédéric Bastiat
I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves. - Christopher Hitchens
Formerly known as BLUELINE976
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