Fundamentalists respond during the premier of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
This is why education and science communication are important.I was laughing at this until it dawned on me that these people were not being ironic.
Now I’m depressed.
sigh
I’m one of those rare types of Christians who think that evolution explains creationism better than creationism does. A rare breed indeed.
A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: “What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.” The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, “What is the tortoise standing on?” “You’re very clever, young man, very clever,” said the old lady. “But it’s tortoises all the way down!” -Stephen Hawking
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Umm, okay in the small view I couldn’t see the second part of that 2nd to last one. Slightly less respectful there....
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