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One last post before I log off...
Got deal with some crap in the real world, so I'm going into self-imposed exile for a while.
Here's a little something from Neil deGrasse Tyson from the Nightly Show round table with some celebrity pastor.
“Any time someone describes their understanding of God, it typically involves some statement of benevolence or some kind of kindness,” Tyson said.
“I look out to the universe — and yes, it is filled with mysteries — but it’s also filled with all manner of things that would just as soon have you dead — like asteroid strikes, and hurricanes, and tornadoes, and tsunamis, and volcanoes, and disease, and pestilence,” Tyson continued. “There are things that exist in the natural world that do not have your health or longevity as a priority. So I cannot look at the universe and say, Yes, there’s a God, and this God cares about my life — at all. The evidence does not support this.”
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“What is the intelligence of which you speak?” Tyson said. “Once again, an asteroid comes and it takes out 70 percent of all the species of life on Earth. Is there some intelligence you’re ascribing to it?”
Wilmore joked that he thought that would be pretty clever.
“I think of, like, the human body, and I look at what’s going on between our legs,” Tyson said. “There’s like a sewage system and entertainment complex intermingling. No engineer of any intelligence would have designed it that way.”
Watch the video here
“I look out to the universe — and yes, it is filled with mysteries — but it’s also filled with all manner of things that would just as soon have you dead — like asteroid strikes, and hurricanes, and tornadoes, and tsunamis, and volcanoes, and disease, and pestilence,” Tyson continued. “There are things that exist in the natural world that do not have your health or longevity as a priority. So I cannot look at the universe and say, Yes, there’s a God, and this God cares about my life — at all. The evidence does not support this.”
...
“What is the intelligence of which you speak?” Tyson said. “Once again, an asteroid comes and it takes out 70 percent of all the species of life on Earth. Is there some intelligence you’re ascribing to it?”
Wilmore joked that he thought that would be pretty clever.
“I think of, like, the human body, and I look at what’s going on between our legs,” Tyson said. “There’s like a sewage system and entertainment complex intermingling. No engineer of any intelligence would have designed it that way.”
Watch the video here
See ya in a few weeks vermin!
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Makes a ridiculous detour around one of our arteries. It's dead simple to explain via evolution, but only an engineer on mushrooms would design a thing like that.
https://books.google.com/books?id=zOMNfAX-oLEC&pg=PA83#v=onepage&q&f=false
LOVE the video, thank you!
Hurry back, you will be missed!
Hope things get straightened out.
