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Cosmos: Possible Worlds

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Image: Host Neil deGrasse Tyson glimpsed in a screenshot from the trailer for Cosmos 3.0, “Possible Worlds.” 

When Cosmos Brought Pantheist-Atheist Mythology into the Open

Everything comes together in a message that includes a creation myth, a story of sin (ecological sin), a salvation story, and even resurrection and ascension. Read More ›
Copernicus
Copernicus
Image: Nicholas Copernicus, via Toruń Regional Museum / Public domain.

Copernican Revolution Promoted Man’s Place in the Cosmos

In Copernicus’ day, the Earth was thought to be at the bottom of the universe, the “sump” where all the filth collected. Read More ›
Collegium Maius

Neil Tyson Gets Ancient and Modern Medicine Wrong

Curiously, Tyson has a future, quasi-religious myth of his own to promote: personal immortality through futuristic technology. Read More ›
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From Cosmos: Possible Worlds — “Most Plausible” Creation Myths

Dr. Tyson’s imagination wanders from Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, to the Cambrian explosion. Read More ›
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Image: Host Neil deGrasse Tyson in a screenshot from the trailer for Cosmos 3.0, “Possible Worlds.”

Echoing the Bible, Cosmos Concludes with a Materialist Origins Myth and Future Heavenly Bliss

Tyson ends his summary of cosmic history with a soaring narrative focused on earth. It sounds like the exalted prose of the book of Genesis. Read More ›
Cosmos Anthropocene
Image: Screenshot from the trailer for Cosmos 3.0, “Possible Worlds.” 

Tyson and Cosmos Sound the Climate Alarm Again

During the present coronavirus threat we can learn some valuable lessons about model predictions. Read More ›
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Image: Screenshot from the trailer for Cosmos 3.0, “Possible Worlds.”

Cosmos Franchise Loses Viewers, While Pumping for Materialism

Perhaps partly because the world is preoccupied by COVID-19, a lot fewer people so far have seen the new Cosmos. Read More ›
Cosmos 2
Image: A screenshot from the trailer for Cosmos 3.0, “Possible Worlds.”

Neil deGrasse Tyson and Cosmos Peddle the Myth that Copernicus Demoted Earth

Tyson insists the Copernican demotion story is redemptive because it saves us from religious ignorance. Read More ›
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Photo: The Chinese FAST telescope, by 罗放 / CC BY-SA.

Another Cosmos Episode, Another Sermon from Pastor Tyson

Eventually, Dr. Tyson gets to Saint Charles. No, we mean that literally. Tyson calls Darwin “the greatest spiritual teacher of the last 1000 years.” Read More ›
Carl Sagan
Image: Carl Sagan, by NASA/Cosmos Studies.

Cosmos Episode 6 — That’s Entertainment! (But Is It Science?)

Here is the problem with speculative thinking about extraterrestrial life as well as about the origin of life. Read More ›

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