Hello, I recently heard someone say (I think it was Tyson} that denying evolution is as good as denying the earth is round,Is this true?
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Which Tyson? Mike Tyson?
Yes, I think what Neil Degrass Tyson said is correct. Humans thought for thousands of years that the earth was flat and that the sun went around the earth. When humans finally realized that we were mistaken for all those years we were required by our intellectual honesty to stop believing what we had previously believed. Humans thought for thousands of years that life was created in their present forms. When humans finally realized that we were mistaken for all those years we were required by our intellectual honesty to stop believing what we had previously believed.
There is no shame in not being aware of a given fact about reality, but once a person is confronted with that fact it is shameful to lack the intellectual honesty to adjust one's view in accordance with demonstrable reality. I think that Tyson is correct. It's not an insult to those who don't know science. It's just a requirement that our thinking be governed by demonstrable reality, not by what we've previously believed.
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Well said Truett, it puzzles me how so many people desperately cling to old beliefs regardless of mountains of evidence to the contrary. It is frustrating at times to observe, but sometimes amusing as well.
Was my Mike Tyson comment considered trolling? I apologize.
Jokes about Mike Tyson are always allowed!
The earth is not round. It is an oblate spheroid
Well if you want to split hairs, it isn't an oblate spheroid either. Spheres and spheroids are mathematical idealizations, real world objects are never in these idealized shapes.
@JacobCorneluis: Yes, well, it's bullshit of same caliber... thick, very thick