Tag: National Geographic Channel

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Date
August 12, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, atheism, Cosmos: Possible Worlds, creation myth, faith, ID the Future, Jay Richards, Michael Keas, mythology, National Geographic Channel, pantheism, podcast, resurrection, salvation, sin, Unbelievable}

When Cosmos Brought Pantheist-Atheist Mythology into the Open

_{Science and Culture
August 12, 2020

Faith & Science

1}

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 ›

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post

Date
May 12, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Technology
Tagged
, __edited, conflict myth, Cosmos: Possible Worlds, Fox Broadcasting Company, history, ID the Future, immortality, Jay Richards, medicine, Michael Keas, National Geographic Channel, Neil deGrasse Tyson, podcast, religion, science, superstition, Unbelievable}

Neil Tyson Gets Ancient and Modern Medicine Wrong

_{Science and Culture
May 12, 2020

Faith & Science, Medicine, Technology

1}

Curiously, Tyson has a future, quasi-religious myth of his own to promote: personal immortality through futuristic technology. Read More ›

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Author
Mike Keas

Date
April 27, 2020

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Ann Druyan, Bible, Big Bang, Carl Sagan, Christianity, Cosmos: Possible Worlds, COVID-19, Deep Ecology, Earth Day, Easter, Encyclopedia Galactica, eschatology, Evolution News, Fox Broadcasting Company, Genesis, interstellar travel, jesus, Johannes Kepler, Mother Earth, Mother Nature, National Geographic Channel, Neil deGrasse Tyson, teleology, Tree of Life, Unbelievable}

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

_{Mike Keas
April 27, 2020

Physical Sciences

10}

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 ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 17, 2020

Categories
Astronomy
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Carl Sagan, classroom, coronavirus, Cosmos (series), Cosmos 3.0, Cosmos: Possible Worlds, COVID-19, Discovery Institute, education, evolution, Fox Broadcasting Company, ID the Future, intelligence, Jay Richards, materialism, matter, Michael Keas, mind, National Geographic Channel, science, storytelling, students, teachers, The Privileged Planet, Unbelievable}

Cosmos Franchise Loses Viewers, While Pumping for Materialism

_{David Klinghoffer
April 17, 2020

Astronomy, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

3}

Perhaps partly because the world is preoccupied by COVID-19, a lot fewer people so far have seen the new Cosmos. Read More ›

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Date
March 31, 2020

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Al Ghazali, bees, Charles Darwin, China, consciousness, cosmos, Cosmos: Possible Worlds, Darwinism, empirical science, extraterrestrial intelligence, Fox Broadcasting Company, Maimonides, National Geographic Channel, natural selection, naturalistic philosophy, religion, Smithsonian Magazine, vitalism}

Another Cosmos Episode, Another Sermon from Pastor Tyson

_{Science and Culture
March 31, 2020

Physical Sciences

4}

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 ›

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Author
Mike Keas

Date
March 25, 2020

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, alien enlightenment, Andrew Cuomo, Carl Sagan, Christianity, Cosmos 3.0, COVID-19, demons, disease, Egypt, Evolution News, Fox Broadcasting Company, Galen, Hippocrates, hospitals, Judaism, leprosy, materialism, medicine, Mesopotamia, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, National Geographic Channel, Neil deGrasse Tyson, New York State, Old Testament, physicians, salvation, social distancing, Unbelievable}

Medicine, Religion, and Cosmos — Was Andrew Cuomo Wrong to Invoke God?

_{Mike Keas
March 25, 2020

Medicine

5}

In a press conference yesterday about the coronavirus, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo used notably religious language. Read More ›

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Author
Mike Keas

Date
March 20, 2020

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Albert Einstein, aliens, ancient Greeks, Aristotle, Baruch Spinoza, Bible, Christiaan Huygens, Christianity, Cosmos: Possible Worlds, Evolution News, extraterrestrial life, Galileo Galilei, geometry, Giordano Bruno, Herwart von Hohenburg, Johannes Kepler, Judaism, National Geographic Channel, nature, Neil deGrasse Tyson, planetary motion, Plato, René Descartes, Saint Augustine, Two Books, Unbelievable}

The Biggest Myth So Far in Cosmos 3.0 — Baruch Spinoza as Science Hero

_{Mike Keas
March 20, 2020

Physical Sciences

9}

Scholarship on Spinoza in the last decade has increasingly recognized that he opposed the observational (empirical) and mathematical analyses of nature. Read More ›

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Date
March 18, 2020

Categories
Chemistry
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, biological information, Christianity, Communists, Cosmos: Possible Worlds, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinian theory, earth, Enceladus, Fox Broadcasting Company, Gregor Mendel, Internet trolls, John D. Sutherland, John Herschel, Joseph Stalin, Karl Marx, Lamarckism, materialism, National Geographic Channel, Nature Reviews Chemistry, Neil deGrasse Tyson, oxygen, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Trofim Lysenko}

New Cosmos Episodes: Only Part of the Story

_{Science and Culture
March 18, 2020

Chemistry, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

5}

These episodes will slip in smoothly in public school science classrooms, someday when all the schools reopen. Read More ›

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post

Date
March 10, 2020

Categories
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, Alvin Plantinga, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, augustine, Baruch Spinoza, Book of Nature, Brian Miller, Carl Sagan, Christiaan Huygens, Christianity, coevolution, coronavirus, Cosmos: Possible Worlds, DNA, Fox Broadcasting Company, James Tour, Jews, mind, National Geographic Channel, naturalism, Neil deGrasse Tyson, public education, Signature in the Cell, synagogue}

Cosmos 3.0 Revisits Themes of the Past, with Familiar Historical Mythmaking

_{Science and Culture
March 10, 2020

Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

6}

At a couple of points in episode 1, Neil deGrasse Tyson employs the “Book of Nature” metaphor, but he never gives its proper historical context. It’s actually a Christian concept. Read More ›

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post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 9, 2020

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, Carl Sagan, coronavirus, Cosmos (series), Cosmos: Possible Worlds, Fox Broadcasting Company, Michael Keas, National Geographic Channel, Neil deGrasse Tyson, stock market, The Unofficial Guide to Cosmos, Unbelievable}

Cosmos 3.0 with Neil deGrasse Tyson Arrives Tonight at 8 PM, Somewhat Dented

_{David Klinghoffer
March 9, 2020

Physical Sciences

3}

The second season (2014) spun a misleading narrative celebrating the triumph of rational, secular scientific culture over benighted, supposedly irrational and anti-science religion. Read More ›