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Yes, just what you read.
Since Neil Tyson didn't advocate their fairy tale, they are demanding he does.
Creationists Demand Airtime On 'Cosmos' For The Sake Of Balance
Submitted by Brian Tashman on Friday, 3/21/2014 12:30 pm
The Creationist group Answers In Genesis, which was already incensed about Neil deGrasse Tysons revival of Cosmos, is now complaining that the show lacks scientific balance because it fails to provide airtime for evolution deniers.
Danny Faulkner of Answers In Genesis and the Creation Museum appeared on The Janet Mefferd Show yesterday to criticize Cosmos for not providing airtime for Creationism adherents. When Mefferd asked if Cosmos will ever give a Creationist any time, Faulkner responded by lamenting that Creationists arent even on the radar screen for them, they wouldnt even consider us plausible at all.
Mefferd agreed that the show isnt being very fair and balanced: Boy, but when you have so many scientists who simply do not accept Darwinian evolution it seems to me that that might be something to throw in there, you know, the old, some scientists say this, others disagree and think this, but thats not even allowed.
Consideration of special Creation is definitely not open for discussion it would seem, Faulkner added.
- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/creationists-demand-airtime-cosmos-sake-balance#sthash.xfygrbMQ.dpuf
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)issues?
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Maybe.
Journeyman
(15,042 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)It's very simple.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)There plenty of Xtian channels. They can produce their own show and sell it to one of them. "Cosmos" is a program about science, not superstition.
jsr
(7,712 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]Treat your body like a machine. Your mind like a castle.[/center][/font][hr]
Archae
(46,362 posts)The one Khan set off.
Or is it a "Land Of Confusion?"
factsarenotfair
(910 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Film at 11.
Humanist_Activist
(7,670 posts)the evolution that organizations like the Catholic Church advocates, as a "compromise" between creationism and scientific facts, evolution guided by a god. Tyson flat out said that unguided evolution was a fact, no equivocations or buts added to it to mollify the religious.
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)factsarenotfair
(910 posts)elias7
(4,031 posts)This guy just misses the whole point abour religion. These stories are not meant to be read as historical fact, but as symbolic for a process that is unknowable and ineffable.
Science does its best to uncover underlying principles of the universe. A living, thriving religious philosophy is in harmony with science, not in competition.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)Just so long as they can get Carl Sagan himself to sign off on it.
Otherwise, as my Grandpa used to say, fuck 'em and feed 'em fish!