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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 ›
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Clever Move — Cosmos Pushes Pantheism

Easier for slipping it into the public schools! It won't alarm the parents nearly as much as an all-out siege on theism. Very clever, Dr. Tyson. Read More ›
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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 ›
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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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Medicine, Religion, and Cosmos — Was Andrew Cuomo Wrong to Invoke God?

In a press conference yesterday about the coronavirus, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo used notably religious language. Read More ›
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Finally, an Origin-of-Life Scientist Debates Skeptic James Tour

When Tour gets done, the narrative we all learned in high school biology class is in shreds on the floor. Read More ›
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The Biggest Myth So Far in Cosmos 3.0 — Baruch Spinoza as Science Hero

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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Counterprogramming for Cosmos 3.0: Two New Videos from Science Historian Mike Keas

The series, as hosted originally by Carl Sagan and now by Neil deGrasse Tyson, has two notable priorities. Read More ›
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Image: Host Neil deGrasse Tyson glimpsed in a screenshot from the trailer for Cosmos 3.0, “Possible Worlds.” 

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

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 ›
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Listen: Molecular Biologist Douglas Axe Explains the Protein Evolution Problem

If evolution can’t build something as basic as a new protein fold, how could it build whole new organs and body plans in the history of life? Read More ›

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