Tag: National Geographic

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Michael Newton Keas

Date
May 11, 2020

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__edited, ancient medicine, Carl Sagan, conflict thesis, Contact movie, cosmos, Cosmos Possible Worlds, Jay W. Richards, Materialism, Michael Newton Keas, Mind Matters, National Geographic, Neal DeGrasse Tyson, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Possible Worlds, Ray Kurzweil, reductionism, techno-utopia, technological singularity, the singularity, transhumanism, Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence, warfare thesis}

Cosmos: Possible Worlds’ Religious Mythology

_{Michael Newton Keas

May 11, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, science historian Michael Keas and philosopher Jay Richards continue their conversation about Neil deGrasse Tyson’s new National Geographic series Cosmos: Possible Worlds. As Keas explains, Tyson’s story of ancient superstition evolving at last into modern medicine gets both ancient and modern medicine factually wrong. His long-running “history” of the warfare between science and religion also is historically mistaken, Keas, author of Unbelievable: 7 Myths About the History and Future of Science and Religion insists. Curiously, Tyson has a future, quasi-religious myth of his own to promote: personal immortality through futuristic technology.

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Author
Jay Richards

Date
April 15, 2020

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__edited, Alvin Plantinga, Carl Sagan, cosmos, DNA, epigenetics, evolutionary argument against naturalism (EAAN), Explore Evolution, indoctrination, intentionality, Jay W. Richards, Materialism, Michael Newton Keas, mind/body, National Geographic, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, origin of mind, science education, scientific Materialism, Scientism, Unbelievable, warfare between science and religion}

New Cosmos Series Preaches the Religion of Materialism

_{Jay Richards

April 15, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, guest host Jay Richards interviews science historian Michael Keas about the new Neil deGrasse Tyson Cosmos television series and its “very impressionistic storytelling.” Starting with an episode titled “Ladder to the Stars,” Cosmos: Possible Worlds weaves a tale of chemical evolution that, according to Keas, fails to engage the tough problems required to build the first self-reproducing biological entity. Keas says it then it moves into a glib explanation for the origin of mind and human intelligence. As Richards and Keas show, evidence takes a back seat to storytelling in both this latest version of Cosmos and in its predecessors.

Flightless cormorant aka Galapagos cormorants - animals and wildlife of Galapagos by sea on Fernandina island, Espinoza Point, Galapagos Islands.

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
February 12, 2020

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__edited, biogeography, blue-footed boobies, Charles Darwin, cormorants, Darwin Day, Ecuador, Evolution, Galapagos Islands, Galapagos tortoise, Jim Fowler, Lynn Fowler, marine iguanas, National Geographic, penguins}

Paul Nelson Visits Darwin’s Galapagos Islands, Pt. 1

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February 12, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, Discovery Institute Senior Fellow and philosopher of biology Paul Nelson tells about his surprise 60th birthday gift from his wife, a trip to the “scientific Mecca,” the Galapagos Islands. Charles Darwin, whose own birthday lands today, devoted a big portion of his notes and field books from his Beagle voyage to these amazing islands, where species can be found that exist nowhere else on earth, and where from Darwin’s day until now, the creatures have no fear of humans. These unusual creatures have history, Nelson reminds us, and that history needs explaining. This is the first of three podcasts; there will be more to come.