28 June 2008
I think we need a recount.
Filed under Olin
I was first exposed to Neil deGrasse Tyson a couple of weeks ago via this video on “stupid” design in which he argues that there can’t be a Creator if a Creator existed, it would have “unintelligent” among other attributes (see his comment below), since there’s a load of stuff out there (in the galaxy, on Earth, in our bodies) that will kill us. “This is no garden of Eden,” he states. Since then, I’ve seen his name a couple of times in print, and last week in New York, he hosted the pre-show video at the Hayden Planetarium on Cosmic Collisions. Then I learned that he hosts scienceNOW, a counterpart to the venerable PBS science show, NOVA.
So I finally got around to his Wikipedia page today, and found that in 2000, Tyson was voted the “sexiest Astrophysicist alive” by People Magazine.
‘Nuff friggen said.
As Steve Holt on Arrested Development would say… “STEVE HOLT”!
:: Adam
28 June 2008 @ 10:14 pm
In my “stupid design” remarks I did not argue for no creator. I simply argued that if there is a creator, the creator is stupid, in addition to whatever other attributes people normally assign to the entity.
-NDTyson