Neil deGrasse Tyson – Stupid Design (Closed Captioned)
Neil deGrasse Tyson on “Stupid Design”. A little bit longer excerpt from Session 2 of the Beyond Belief conference, that includes remarks about the economic impact of “Intelligent Design”. Please contact me if you are willing to translate the subtitles into different languages. Source: video.google.com (32:00 min – 37:42 min)
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Same video with no background music. Comment, rate, and favorite if you like it! A compilation of a few clips illustrating the plethora of poor design in the biological and physical world. For the entire Nesse interview start here: www.youtube.com And for the entire documentary featured start here: www.youtube.com
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Q&A: if that stupid contest to design your own paint scheme is over?
Question by know it all: if that stupid contest to design your own paint scheme is over?
than why are they still running the commercials?
@40: what a waste of an answer. “because they are?” you’ve got a bright future in the fast food industry kid.
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Answer by mbl
I didn’t know the contest was over. But I think those commercials are entertaining….for commercials. 95% of the time, I turn the channel during commercials.
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What possesses people who should know better to design stupid products?What planet/ drugs are these dudes on?
Question by tell’emaboutdahoney: What possesses people who should know better to design stupid products?What planet/ drugs are these dudes on?
I mean-Toothpaste with a red stripe-when you rinse out-you think your gums are bleeding!!
Green golf balls-FFS-have you ever tried to find even a white ball in the rough after you’ve hooked or pulled a tee shot?
The list is endless……………………………………………………………………..
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Answer by RNW
I’ve heard it said that it’s morally wrong to allow a fool to keep his money. Perhaps the stupid products are just a way to extract money from the fools.
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Neil Degrasse Tyson – Stupid Design
Neil deGrasse Tyson was born and raised in New York City where he was educated in the public schools clear through his graduation from the Bronx High School of Science. Tyson went on to earn his BA in Physics from Harvard and his PhD in Astrophysics from Columbia. Tyson’s professional research interests are broad, but include star formation, exploding stars, dwarf galaxies, and the structure of our Milky Way. Tyson obtains his data from the Hubble Space Telescope, as well as from telescopes in California, New Mexico, Arizona, and in the Andes Mountains of Chile. In 2001, Tyson was appointed by President Bush to serve on a 12-member commission that studied the Future of the US Aerospace Industry. The final report was published in 2002 and contained recommendations (for Congress and for the major agencies of the government) that would promote a thriving future of transportation, space exploration, and national security. In 2004, Tyson was once again appointed by President Bush to serve on a 9-member commission on the Implementation of the United States Space Exploration Policy, dubbed the “Moon, Mars, and Beyond” commission. This group navigated a path by which the new space vision can become a successful part of the American agenda. And in 2006, the head of NASA appointed Tyson to serve on its prestigious Advisory Council, which will help guide NASA through its perennial need to fit its ambitious vision into its restricted budget. In addition to dozens of professional …
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Some Design!-Christopher Hitchens This present-day version of God of the gaps goes by a fresh name: intelligent design. The term suggests that some entity, endowed with a mental capacity far greater than the human mind can muster, created or enabled all the things in the physical world that we cannot explain through scientific methods. An interesting hypothesis. But why confine ourselves to things too wondrous or intricate for us to understand, whose existence and attributes we then credit to a superintelligence? Instead, why not tally all those things whose design is so clunky, goofy, impractical, or unworkable that they reflect the absence of intelligence? And what comedian designer configured the region between our legs-an entertainment complex built around a sewage system? Stupid design could fuel a movement unto itself. It may not be nature’s default, but it’s ubiquitous. Yet people seem to enjoy thinking that our bodies, our minds, and even our universe represent pinnacles of form and reason. Maybe it’s a good antidepressant to think so. But it’s not science-not now, not in the past, not ever. -Neil deGrasse Tyson Religious fundamentalists may deny that evolution exists, but in the natural world it is religion that does not exist. -John Maisey of American Museum of Natural History
Atheists: What is your favorite stupid “intelligent design” argument?
Question by Blasphemy is fun!: Atheists: What is your favorite stupid “intelligent design” argument?
I personally like “Irreducible Complexity” because it is just so easy to mathematically disprove.
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Answer by lainiebsky
I like the one that says that the amazing similarities in DNA prove that one single deity made everything.
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I think they should call it stupid design instead of Intelligent design who agrees disagrees why?
Question by SevenDeuce: I think they should call it stupid design instead of Intelligent design who agrees disagrees why?
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Answer by Jack Of All Trades
amen lol
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Q&A: Should it be called stupid design instead of intelligent design?
Question by ? Mike ? ?s Baby Isaac too!: Should it be called stupid design instead of intelligent design?
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Answer by kris da man
Yes.
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Stupid Design
This is an from a presentation by Neil deGrasse Tyson at the 2006 Beyond Belief conference. Neil is the director of the Hayden Planetarium in the Rose Center For Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History. In this Powerpoint entitled “Stupid Design” Tyson points out some of the glaring evidence for a universe without a designer.
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