The Most Astounding Fact
Astrophysicist Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Posted 12 years ago by boyt in category: space

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Western civilizations are individualistic societies. Eastern tend to be collectivist societies. Each have their advantages and their draw backs. What seems an obvious drawback in these comments is the cognitive biases brought on by individualists. The most common cognitive bias here is the Fundamental attribution error. What many Darwinian believers don't understand is that many religious academics learn both what Darwinism teaches, and more science beyond that that shows Darwinism is a religion and it's dead. Physics, or physical law science, has proven the Big Bang theory and Darwinism are fundamentals to a faith, or religion called evolutionism in so-called science books, and should go to Comedy Central where it belongs. Studies of explosions show that objects rarely survive explosions in a spherical shape. Also, given a sector, pie shaped section starting at apex of explosion, all debris spins in one direction. Several of the planets in just our own solar system have moons that rotate in opposite directions. We don't have to point the telescopes very far to understand that Darwinism and the Big Bang are both dead. Most in science community understand that the sun is one big ball of gases. It stands to reason, but no one really knows. Some would suggest that it's energy originates as fusion, though most don't understand fusion. Many scientists egotistically deal with the ambiguous and tell us that we just have to trust them. If our solar system is billions of years old, and life on earth is supposed to have begun, in evolutionary theory, about 400 million yrs ago, then we have to assume that the sun has not changed its mass much over that span of time. So, how big was the sun a billion yrs ago? How big was the sun 400 million yrs ago? Gravitational force is still a theory and unexplained by science. Given the sun's mass a billion yrs ago, and its gravitational forces, which would have to be much stronger, did Mercury's path around the sun have a larger path? Earth's? Given the sun's loss of mass, how could it have pulled these planets closer to it, even to sustain life on earth at its precarious variance of even 200 degrees F? Mercury's surface changes by 10,000's of degrees F everyday... Simple amebic life is unsustainable even in a variance of 1000 degrees, but we are to just believe that it not only spontaniously spawned, but that the earth's surface didn't change much? Religions dictate that there is a Creator. Darwinism dictates that there isn't. Neither are proved, or provable by science. Both are of faith. Both are a religion. Only one religion is allowed to be heard from in academia. The idiot is one who isolates oneself from all view points that don't agree with their religion. Being a Christian, I know that christian life is more of a collectivist society, rather than an individualist one. Also, Christians and/or conservatives want to hear both sides, and then they decide. It's a behavior much different from most sections of science and "news" channels like MSNBC. It stands to reason that so many would click the "Down" button and not leave a comment, because those that understand why, people like them already know why, but those that don't will continue not to understand, because they refuse to acknowledge facts that counter their religion. You may think that you have scientific facts that counter a Creationist's understanding, and laugh ignorantly to yourself. But, then you will never understand the purpose of life, because you think that you have a fact scientifically that proves otherwise. Until the phenomena is exposed to both religion's science, you will always live ignorantly in your errogance.

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