StarTalk - Tyson - Faith

[Michael]

I happened to catch Startalk last night, and it included a Jesuit Priest and involved a discussion about God and faith. I must admit that I was a bit put off by Tyson's whole attitude. He's really *smug* as it relates to "acts of faith" related to a "deity", but he's absolutely guilty of pure 'acts of faith' in concepts like "space expansion", "inflation", "dark energy", and exotic forms of matter, none of which show up in a lab. I was appalled at how he claimed to feel ok with 'not knowing' how the universe began, yet he claims to have "knowledge' about all kinds of things that are ultimately his own 'acts of pure faith' in *supernatural* constructs galore.

I wasn't impressed. I did like the format, and the attempt to interject humor, but his attitude toward 'supernatural" constructs and ideas is simply hypocritical IMO.

 

[lesliedellow]

Ho him. All together now. The universe is really an electric motor, and there isn't an astrophysicist on Earth who knows what he is talking about (theists included).

 

[Michael]

Ho him. All together now. The universe is really an electric motor, and there isn't an astrophysicist on Earth who knows what he is talking about (theists included).

That probably explains their huge Bicep2 fiasco last year, the fact none of them can name so much as a single source of 'dark energy' and the fact that they've come up empty at LHC, LUX, PandaX and the electron roundness 'tests" of "cold dark matter".

Face it, Tyson's *pure blind faith* in inflation, dark energy, and exotic forms of matter is *at least* as large of an "act of faith" in "supernatural" constructs as any theists faith in a *supernatural* concept of God. Tyson is a huge hypocrite IMO. He feigns "lack of knowledge" about how the universe began, and tries to claim the moral scientific high ground in that self professed ignorance process, yet he promotes *four different forms* of *supernatural* constructs just to promote the "big bang' theory.