Neil degrasse Tyson Are We Alone
www.myspace.com In the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), researchers differentiate between advanced and non-advanced civilizations. An advanced civilization is defined as one with the ability to conduct interstellar communication — to send electromagnetic signals through space. Using this definition, human civilization only became advanced within the past century, when local communication such as radio and television broadcasts began to be transmitted to interstellar space.
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Intelligent Design is Stupid: Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson describes the absuridity of “intelligent design”. Sorry folks, the universe was not designed for us. Accept it, we’re nothing special.
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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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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
Intelligent Design? – Neil deGrasse Tyson
Final comments from a lecture given by Neil deGrasse Tyson.
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This is a follow up to “Stupid Design”. In this video I focus primarily on human design flaws with a few non human examples as well. Would an omnipotent, omniscient, and benevolent god design organisms how they are designed?
What does Neil Tyson think about Intelligent Design?
Neil Tyson – Stupid Design Neil Tyson – Gods retreat from cosmology. www.youtube.com Beyond Belief ’06 – Neil deGrasse Tyson First Talk (Full) video.google.com
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Go here for the same video with no background music: www.youtube.com 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