Neil deGrasse Tyson stops a religious troll

DoctorE · #1 by **DoctorE** » Oct 01, 2010 10:26 pm

Nice

At the end of the Q&A period after Tyson and Dawkins' magnificent presentation "The Poetry of Science", this douchebag troll (who refused to sit and insisted on getting his "question" out) tries to bait Dawkins/Tyson into a religious discussion with the mildly retarded question about what they would do when they're about to die with nothing to console themselves but their knowledge of science (implying that they're incomplete without the source of origin:god). Dawkins passed the opportunity for retort to Tyson, who answers in a fantastically poetic way.

Nautilidae · #2 by **Nautilidae** » Oct 01, 2010 10:32 pm

MattHunX · #3 by **MattHunX** » Oct 02, 2010 6:37 am

I can't find the full debate anywhere, yet...

z8000783 · #4 by **z8000783** » Oct 02, 2010 6:51 am

Starts here I think.

MattHunX · #5 by **MattHunX** » Oct 02, 2010 7:03 am

z8000783 wrote:Starts here I think.

Thank you very much! :cheers:

Denny · #6 by **Denny** » Oct 02, 2010 8:14 am

I couldn't hear him, very well. = ( Could someone please put it in quotes? My speakers are terrible.

z8000783 · #7 by **z8000783** » Oct 02, 2010 9:01 am

Try it with headphones, they are cheap enough these days.

John

katja z · #8 by **katja z** » Oct 02, 2010 9:13 am

Denny wrote:I couldn't hear him, very well. = ( Could someone please put it in quotes? My speakers are terrible.

Seconded

NineOneFour · #9 by **NineOneFour** » Oct 02, 2010 11:50 am

Awesome!

LIFE · **#10** by **LIFE** » Oct 02, 2010 12:20 pm

Brilliant response! :clap:

Lizard_King · **#11** by **Lizard_King** » Oct 02, 2010 12:39 pm

Truly magnificent. :thumbup:

CdesignProponentsist · **#12** by **CdesignProponentsist** » Jan 09, 2012 6:29 pm

Bravo on Neil's answer.

Here is the way I would like to go if I had the choice and people around me who were willing to carry it out. Warning, quite graphic.

Tibetan Sky Funeral

Bribase · **#13** by **Bribase** » Jan 09, 2012 6:54 pm

Amazing!

Contrast this with our western sense of discomfort around handling the dead. it's interesting to read that it's not really a spiritual exercise but a functional one; The ground is too hard to dig deep holes in and leaving dead bodies on the ground might attract the wrong kind of animals. Therefore the body must be given to the birds.

Mick · **#14** by **Mick** » Jan 10, 2012 4:32 am

CdesignProponentsist · **#15** by **CdesignProponentsist** » Jan 10, 2012 6:50 am

Mick wrote:wtf.

You are confused about something in this thread?

Spinozasgalt · **#16** by **Spinozasgalt** » Jan 10, 2012 8:02 am

I don't get the question or the answer. :scratch:

CdesignProponentsist · **#17** by **CdesignProponentsist** » Jan 10, 2012 8:52 am

Spinozasgalt wrote:I don't get the question or the answer.

Essentially he asked Neil how he would comfort himself in the moments of his imminent death, as if deluding himself with visions of God would work for someone who spent his life not believing in such nonsense. His answer was, knowing that his body and death would go on to provide for the furthering of life, would be sufficient.

Spinozasgalt · **#18** by **Spinozasgalt** » Jan 10, 2012 11:06 am

Ahhhh.

Spearthrower · **#19** by **Spearthrower** » Jan 10, 2012 12:27 pm

CdesignProponentsist wrote:Bravo on Neil's answer.

Here is the way I would like to go if I had the choice and people around me who were willing to carry it out. Warning, quite graphic.

Tibetan Sky Funeral

Cool - never actually seen a sky burial. Not sure it's entirely traditional - I think they used to require a pilgrimage up to the ice-line to ensure that only birds (emissaries of the Sky Father) feasted on it, rather than wolves and cats.

Scar · **#20** by **Scar** » Jan 10, 2012 12:31 pm

Mick wrote:wtf.

Yeah. It's confusing that non-deluded people find ways to cope with their imminent death, eh?