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  1. Hop_David

    Kepler vs Galileo

    Kepler's heliocentric model is so much better at making accurate predictions. And his insights so much deeper. So I had always assumed Kepler came after Galileo. I was recently surprised to learn that Kepler was a contemporary of Galileo. Johannes Kepler 1571 to 1630 Galileo Galilei 1564 to...
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    • galileo halley heliocentricism hooke huygens kepler newton principia
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    • Forum: Religious Debates
  2. Hop_David

    Credulous skeptics

    At the 2006 Beyond Belief, the 2008 TAM6 and other large gatherings Neil deGrasse Tyson would routinely share three false histories: Bush and Star Names Ghazali: Math is the work of the Devil Newton just stopped because he had God on the Brain At Beyond Belief were celebrity skeptics like Ann...
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    • ann druyan dawkins james randi krauss michael shermer neil degrasse tyson novella sam harris skeptic skepticism
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    • Forum: Religious Debates
  3. Hop_David

    The false histories of Neil deGrasse Tyson #2 re: Isaac Newton

    My first thread on Tyson's bad history is already becoming unwieldy. So I am posting Tyson's claims on Isaac Newton in a separate thread. Newton could have easily done Laplace's n-body work but he had God on the brain. Tyson tells us Newton could have easily done Laplace's n-body mechanics in...
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    The false histories of Neil deGrasse Tyson

    Tyson has a number of different talks that push the same narrative: religion is destructive and it stifles scientific progress. And just about all these talks are based on invented histories. It's noteworthy that Tyson has repeated these false histories many times, often to large audiences of...
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