COAST TO COAST, speckled ghosts, zombie painted posts, & other "insanities"-so entertaining!

[Overmind One]

I really love Carl Sagan's The Demon Haunted World (Science as a Candle in the Dark). It's an amazing read that debunks the shit out of aliens and Bigfoot and crazy thinking in general. If you haven't read it there is a free pdf of the book at the link below. Good stuff!

http://www.metaphysicspirit.com/books/The Demon-Haunted World.pdf

I am going to read that! I never did.

 

[Bluce Ree]

I am going to read that! I never did.

You can also listen to it here.

 

[Bluce Ree]

If you have 40 minutes to kill, you HAVE to watch this. Neil DeGrasse Tyson has such a brilliantly eccentric way of putting theological beliefs in perspective.


IMO, his humor is second to none in the scientific community.

 

[Gatefan1976]

Is this one of his "god of the gaps" speeches?

 

[Bluce Ree]

Is this one of his "god of the gaps" speeches?

It's about how religion negated progress. He specifically goes into the Arab history, how they were once the pillars of intellect, the scientific leaps that occurred in that part of the world specifically between 800 AD and 1100 AD and how the words of one religious figure in the 12th century tore it all down by declaring math as the work of the devil and how we have not fully recovered since.

 

[Rac80]

You're right. more like 10000 years and before.

EDIT: I will say 12,000 years. This because the revisions to ancient site ages continues rearward.

watch life after people -- our technological society would fade very fast! that show is very eye opening ...especially when they visit places that have only been abandoned 30 or 40 years and you see how fast they have deteriorated. we have a "disposable society" where nothing is made to last anymore it seems.

 

[Joelist]

Thought you meant THIS Coast to Coast: