creationists haven't been particularly thrilled with Neil deGrasse Tyson and
the reboot at the Carl Sagan cosmos eerie since the first episode
I've been loving the series I've been keeping up with the a the episode as
best I can
and we talk in more detail a few weeks ago about how some young earth
creationists
thought that Neil deGrasse Tyson was wrong in saying
that just because we can see stuff further
than 6500 light years away that proves
the earth and the universe couldn't possibly be only six thousand years old
in fact they went as far as to suggest
we may not really know the speed of light light my travel at one speed in
one direction and add another speed in another direction
that was a couple weeks ago now Christmas related content
is firing up creationists the Discovery Institute
is an organization that defends religion against
scientific explanations for natural phenomena are what most of us know as
science Jay Richards is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute
and he's upset because out some of the facts
back so-called backs as they would say
that Neil deGrasse Tyson presented in cosmos about Christmas so an episode 7
and we talked about this on this program before Neil deGrasse Tyson
accurately stated that almost all Christian holidays are copied from pagan
or other holidays have the past then he focused on Christmas
now remember this story above the Son of God being born around december
twenty-fifth dying in coming back to life being born to a virgin
this is not a story that is even remotely unique to Christianity horace
was born to the Virgin I sis
son of the god apps a Cyrus with the manger
born around december 21st killed walked on water cast out demons was crucified
descended to hell
resurrected after three days addis AVP Origi a
born on December 25th to a virgin crucified descent to the underworld
resurrected after three days
there are so many of these I won't bore you with the others but there is is our
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Neil deGrasse Tyson was right about what he said but to come back to cosmology
Richards Road
in the Easter Sunday episode about how modern scientists determine the true age
of the earth
and about the tenuously related 28
certain century controversy over late leaded gas
they inserted a segment about Christmas we learned that the holiday celebrated
by a couple billion Christians
is really a camouflage takeover of Saturnalia
the High Holy Day when Asian Roman celebrated Saturn
the gotta agriculture how is this relevant
well Saturn is also the name of the planet which is part of the solar system
which is part of the cosmos
he implies that it was just an excuse to attack Christmas of course that's not
the case
the the real point here is if Neil deGrasse Tyson want to explain why
creationist are correct when they assess the
age of the universe based on biblical texts
it makes sense to show that much above the historical time-line laid out in
those sacred tax doesn't make sense
and pointing out that the Romans were celebrating December 25th in the
resurrection have a God who was born to a virgin
was already happening for hundreds of years it actually does make sense
I will never understand why these guys won't just let the scientist teach
science it doesn't have to all be
about how your religious beliefs trump
the scientific explanations for things I guess for them it does because it's such
a threat
well it is kinda a war we have going on here is in about Lockerbie
questions in this country can't really do with the use did you
when you told them that their police you're wrong that being kill you
so I want some good I guess but as a whole we don't have armies marching
against each other I thought if you had faith
that was enough you didn't need to rebut every single bit up scientific theory
with religious doctor and are now maybe they don't really have faith
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