[lbo-talk] "If the universe were only 6, 500 years old, how could we see the light from anything more distant than the Crab Nebula?" Tyson asks

[Charles Brown]

It is the male supremacist family, private property and the state,
so-called civilization, that originate about 6,000 years ago , not the
universe or even the human species. The human species , homo sapiens,
is at least 40,000 years old. The Bible is picking up the origin of
domestication of plants and animals ,cities, writing etc, and setting
it as the origin of world. It is the origin of the written world, like
that of the Bible.

Charles

Neil deGrasse Tyson Blasts Creationism In New 'Cosmos' Episode (VIDEO)

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Just days after creationist groups complained their views had been
excluded from Neil deGrasse Tyson's "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey," it
seems they finally got some airtime on the show. But they might not be
too pleased with how it all went down.

Creationist Danny Faulkner of the Christian group Answers in Genesis
said during a March 20 appearance on "The Janet Mefferd Show" that
Tyson seemed to shy away from any mention of creationism in his Fox
series. "Consideration of special creation is definitely not open for
discussion, it would seem," Faulkner said.

But Tyson proved Faulkner wrong in last Sunday's installment of
"Cosmos" when he addressed -- and soundly attacked -- one of
creationism's core tenets: That the universe, based on biblical
sources, is only about 6,500 years old. Just check out the "Cosmos"
video above.

In the episode, entitled "A Sky Full of Ghosts," Tyson uses the
example of the Crab Nebula, which is about 6,500 light years away from
Earth, to debunk this creationist belief. As he explains, we can see
the light of celestial beings much, much further away than the Crab
Nebula, which proves that our universe is much older than a few
thousand years.

"If the universe were only 6,500 years old, how could we see the light
from anything more distant than the Crab Nebula?" Tyson asks during
the episode. "We couldn't. There wouldn't have been enough time for
the light to get to Earth from anywhere farther away than 6,500 light
years in any direction. That's just enough time for light to travel a
tiny portion of our Milky Way galaxy."

Scientific evidence indicates that the universe is actually about 13.8
billion years old.

Tyson's comments may have been a bit out of character for the
celebrated astrophysicist. In a March interview with The Huffington
Post, Tyson said he typically doesn't make it his business to correct
people's scientific misconceptions.

"As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and
to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others,"
he told HuffPost Science. "In that state of mind, they have earned a
kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas
floating around out there. So rather than correct the weird ideas, I
would rather them to know how to think in the first place. Then they
can correct the weird idea themselves. I don't just tell them no.
That's pontifical."

Watch full episodes of "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" here.