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Is Neil De Grasse Tyson a Serial Fabricator?[W:515]

Manc Skipper said:
Where your preferences are concerned I assume nothing. I did fleetingly wonder why his Jewishness is significant to you, since it has no relevance to the conversation.
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I agree religion has no relevance in this conversation, so why do folks on the left keep bringing it up??

And Calamity said Prager is a RW religious kook, and my response was, he's jewish so what?

So like I said, you guys want to bring religion into this, or anything else just as long as were not talking about NDT.
 
bubbabgone said:
Oh ... it was the whole God thing itself. That wasn't clear.
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More specifically that he thinks God isn't neutral and watches over the US. What hogwash. And, I can see why NDT confuses that asinine statement with the one about the stars.
 
calamity said:
He probably read something somewhere and got it convoluted. As everyone knows, GWB did say some whacked out stuff.

Besides, it's easy to get one line of God loves the US mixed up with another.

Here's a good example of Bush's kooky take on how God loves us. From his address post 911:
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There is nothing at all kooky about GWB's words quoted above. They are in fact inspiring and uplifting, and were wholly appropriate to the time and circumstance.

NDT lied.
 
calamity said:
More specifically that he thinks God isn't neutral and watches over the US. What hogwash. And, I can see why NDT confuses that asinine statement with the one about the stars.
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He didn't confuse anything... He lied his scientific ass off.
 
calamity said:
Good grief. So, you think that god watches out for you? :roll: Does he hold your hand and sing you lullabies?:lol:
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I noticed I wasn't in that list of 25 scientists, so I wonder where in the world you came up with this ^. The point, which would have hit others like a truck, is that Bush is apparently as childish as Einstein in your little world.
 
calamity said:
Uh...the childish nonsense about God--his supposed non-neutrality and that he watches over us. What is Bush, 5?
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I'm agnostic myself, but God would certainly not be neutral between good and evil. Every session of the US Supreme Court opens with: "May God bless this court and the United States of America."
 
calamity said:
More specifically that he thinks God isn't neutral and watches over the US. What hogwash. And, I can see why NDT confuses that asinine statement with the one about the stars.
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I'm curious ... where did your sense of right/wrong come from?
 
Jack Hays said:
I'm agnostic myself, but God would certainly not be neutral between good and evil. Every session of the US Supreme Court opens with: "May God bless this court and the United States of America."
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Now you've gone an done it... You stirred up the hornets nest by tying the use of the ever so frightening "G" word, with a branch of the federal government.
 
Jack Hays said:
I'm agnostic myself, but God would certainly not be neutral between good and evil. Every session of the US Supreme Court opens with: "May God bless this court and the United States of America."
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The reality that some of the world's most reasonable and rational thinkers would express a belief in a higher being is lost on some. If we were to apply the "consensus" meme to the world's religious population in the same manner it's applied to climate here, such expressions as the one you and I and Bubba responded to here would be ridiculed and smeared, and the posters would be labeled "deniers".
 
Grim17 said:
Now you've gone an done it... You stirred up the hornets nest by tying the use of the ever so frightening "G" word, with a branch of the federal government.
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Greetings, Grim17. :2wave:

:lamo: :thumbs: Using another "G" word, Ruth Ginsburg recently announced that she has no intention of retiring from the Supreme Court, even though she's over 81 years of age. What prompted her statement is unknown to me, but her interview was interesting - she said she doubted Obama would appoint another person like her - she's not far left enough! :shock: And we have had some 9-0 unanimous votes recently from the Court that BHO is over-reaching his authority. Interesting....
 
polgara said:
Greetings, Grim17. :2wave:

:lamo: :thumbs: Using another "G" word, Ruth Ginsburg recently announced that she has no intention of retiring from the Supreme Court, even though she's over 81 years of age. What prompted her statement is unknown to me, but her interview was interesting - she said she doubted Obama would appoint another person like her - she's not far left enough! :shock: And we have had some 9-0 unanimous votes recently from the Court that BHO is over-reaching his authority. Interesting....
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Greetings Polgara.:2wave:

Lefties have been pressuring Ginsburg to retire before BHO leaves office so he can appoint a young lefty Justice. They fear that a Repub successor POTUS would appoint another conservative and create a strong right majority on the SCOTUS.
 
Jack Hays said:
I'm agnostic myself, but God would certainly not be neutral between good and evil. Every session of the US Supreme Court opens with: "May God bless this court and the United States of America."
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Adults really shouldn't be talking into their hands, as if they were some kind of cosmic radio transmitter to the heavens. But, assuming some do, like Gergie Porgey Bushy, it makes sense that a guy like NDT would confuse one line of stupidity for the next.
 
humbolt said:
I noticed I wasn't in that list of 25 scientists, so I wonder where in the world you came up with this ^. The point, which would have hit others like a truck, is that Bush is apparently as childish as Einstein in your little world.
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Einstein said some stupid stuff in his time too--especially about "god" and dice playing. Just ask Niels Bohr.
 
Grim17 said:
He didn't confuse anything... He lied his scientific ass off.
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I tend to doubt it. Consider is faulty intelligence, like W's excuse for WMD. :)
 
calamity said:
Adults really shouldn't be talking into their hands, as if they were some kind of cosmic radio transmitter to the heavens. But, assuming some do, like Gergie Porgey Bushy, it makes sense that a guy like NDT would confuse one line of stupidity for the next.
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Ah. So now your personal prejudice is your defense of NDT's lie.
 
polgara said:
Greetings, Grim17. :2wave:

:lamo: :thumbs: Using another "G" word, Ruth Ginsburg recently announced that she has no intention of retiring from the Supreme Court, even though she's over 81 years of age. What prompted her statement is unknown to me, but her interview was interesting - she said she doubted Obama would appoint another person like her - she's not far left enough! :shock: And we have had some 9-0 unanimous votes recently from the Court that BHO is over-reaching his authority. Interesting....
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Hello polgara... Politically speaking, Ginsburg is hands down the farthest left justice on the court, so I certainly hope for America's sake she's right and neither Obama, or any other president appoints another one like her.
 
Jack Hays said:
Ah. So now your personal prejudice is your defense of NDT's lie.
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I'm nust saying that one reference to "god" sounds very much like another to those of us who think the whole idea of "god" favoring and watching out for us is hogwash.
 
Grim17 said:
Deflecting again...
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Not at all. It's a good bet that NDT didn't mine the quotes himself--hence, faulty intelligence. Tyson's error was not doing due diligence, just like Bush and Cheney re: WMD.
 
calamity said:
Not at all. It's a good bet that NDT didn't mine the quotes himself--hence, faulty intelligence. Tyson's error was not doing due diligence, just like Bush and Cheney re: WMD.
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LMAO... You just can't face the truth, so you deflect.
 
calamity said:
Mom & dad. You?
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Did it come to them in a fevered dream?

Bottom line, dude ... and you may not like to hear it ... I hope you can deal with it ... but if you looked reeeeeeeal hard, you might see your sense of right & wrong can be traced to Judeo-Christian values.
I expect you know what that means.
Despite that, if you've been loyally voting the Liberal line you're probably accustomed to easily overcoming those values.

Just kidding ... I'm sure you're a super, yet misguided, fellow.
 
bubbabgone said:
Did it come to them in a fevered dream?

Bottom line, dude ... and you may not like to hear it ... I hope you can deal with it ... but if you looked reeeeeeeal hard, you might see your sense of right & wrong can be traced to Judeo-Christian values.
I expect you know what that means.
Despite that, if you've been loyally voting the Liberal line you're probably accustomed to easily overcoming those values.

Just kidding ... I'm sure you're a super, yet misguided, fellow.
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Morality is not dependent upon Judeo-Christian values. In fact, religion often clouds morality as is evidenced by things like the Inquisition and those shooting abortion doctors. It's also used as an excuse to "other" gays and lesbians...or atheists.
 
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