by Jon Preston 41 Replies latest jw friends
Back in the 1500s, Nicolaus Copernicus posited that the center of our solar system was NOT the Earth, but in fact, the sun (heliocentrism). Galileo revived this but was charged with heresay and threatened with torture if he did not publicly recant.
It is only within the last 20+ years (done in 1992) that the Catholic Church actually exhonerated Galileo. It took them over 400 years to do this.
I think COSMOS this time around is going for the jugular of ignorance in religious teachings.
Home Schooled kids are going to be Neanderthal level scientists because the phony textbooks they use
are watered down and twisted toward Creationism.
Read about who publishes BEKA text books and what their purpose is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Beka_Book
" A Beka Book has been criticized in recent years by secular organizations such as the University of California and National Center for Science Education for publishing information contrary to generally accepted historical consensus, scientific consensus, especially regarding the age of the Earth and evolution . Counterintuitive to more secular programs, A Beka Book takes a traditional Biblical literalist and young earth creationist position in its science curriculum, portraying the Genesis creation narrative as a fact. This is unsurprising, however, as A Beka Book is a Christian curriculum typically serving Christian families with different viewpoints than their secular counterparts. For example, A Beka Book was criticized by certain organizations for selling works that are contradictory to the scientific consensus regarding the origins of the universe , origins of life , and evolution ."
Some of you might be stirred by the cosmos show, but I tried to watch it again, gave up half-way through, primitive comic strip type puppets, Known facts about the universe prsented in less than spectacular fashion, nothing new [to me], I will be spending time reading the science magazines, books instead. and
looking at the real thing, the cosmos.
Prologos, it is simply laughable that you claim to know everythinng presented in the Cosmos when you have been show time and time again to lack even a basic grasp of science, astronomy, math or physics. And by "basic" I mean high school level.
Loving the show! Something my family and I are enjoying watching. Kinda funny , not too long ago me and my mother were watching and she said, "Makes you lean more towards atheist more you think about it." Or something on the lines of that. She's not, she say she considers herself agnostic at the moment. I'm a believer but with lots of questions and wonder. I find the show very interesting. Looking forward to more episodes!
(~stillwondering~)
well, I find the show drags, not high-school Kindergarten level puppet show. May be my imagination, when reading about these same things, comes up with more
VIVId pictures than that
viviane.
It seems to me that some episodes are better than others. I enjoyed the last one I watched very much, the one about spectral lines... But I was bored with the previous episode, whatever it was.
I also really dislike the use of the cartoons.
Cosmos this time around seems a little baby-ish compared to the orignial.
Though, to be fair, I was a little kid when the original came out so maybe it was baby-ish too and I didn't notice!
well, I find the show drags, not high-school Kindergarten level puppet show. May be my imagination, when reading about these same things, comes up with more
There are no puppets, you don't think it's high school because that's still above your head and you refuse to learn and are just trying to disparage something that encouraging actual, real science and not the pseudo-science woo you push.
sure, many will be enthralled by it. when you reached a certain age* you become jaded I guess, and
If you could get off your kindergarten-teacher-level mentality of grading PEOPLE ore DE-grading people and concentrated on TEACHING,----
please tell us what
earth-shaking science news, insights
YOU LEARNED from the show so far. please.
*pushing 90
Jon Preston - Why not get yourself a subscription
to Scientific American magazine ?
www.scientificamerican.com/magazine/magazine/sa
You would enjoy it, and by the way;
the fact your wife is a woman does not account for
her lack of education or stupidy since there are
plenty of women who teach Physics and
advance Chemistry and all levels of
math and science at prestigious universities.
