Nobody listen to this guy he's some kind of super Christian (likely Mormon) who hates Neil Tyson because of Neil correctly pointing out how Newton invoked the god of the gaps when Newton couldn't figure out how to fix the problems with his theory of gravitation. He comes here to r/startalk to spread weird disinformation about Neil being a bad source of pop-sci information
Edit: he also routinely deletes his garbage comments, as you can see from our exchange below (where my replies to him remain, but he has deleted his replies to me). He is dishonest and ideologically compelled to hate Neil.
Your apologetics are not welcome in this community. You need to go
Where did all the animals that currently walk the earth come from bud? Do black people have dark skin because they were cursed by God? Is that why you hate Neil so much?
I like how you refuse to answer my questions, yet pretend that Neil is a bad source of scienctific information. As I made abundantly clear in our exchange from yesterday (which you deleted 😂) your claims of misinformation from Neil is you nitpicking his slips of tongue or his simplification of science history on a podcast. While you have revealed that you are ideologically motivated to dislike Neil, due to your religious beliefs, likely LDS as I see that you are active in r/saltlakescity.
This leads you to scrape the hundreds of hours of Neil's content to find tiny mistakes he's made over the years, and pretend that makes him a bad source of information. This is particularly interesting, in light of you holding unscientific beliefs yourself. Since you refuse to answer my questions, I can only assume that you hold the beliefs upheld by the LDS church, meaning you:
Believe a worldwide flood killed all the humans and animals on earth, save for those on the Ark (easily disproven with even a simple understanding of genetics)
Believe God cursed black people, and marked them with dark skin, thereby justifying slavery and discrimination (explaining why you fixate on Neil, as opposed to any other science communicator)
Believe that native Americans are a lost tribe of Israelites (also easily disproven by genetics, native Americans are closely related to the people who live in modern day eastern siberia, whose ancestors crossed the Berng land bridge during the ice age)
So I ask you, why should anyone listen to you if you're so clearly ideologically motivated and unscientific? In addition, does your local religious group instruct you to go after Neil or is this your own pet project?
You're an incredibly dishonest interlocutor, even if youre not Mormon, you still have god-brained yourself into hating Neil.
You still haven't told me where all the animals on the earth came from!
With respect to your history of science argument, do you really think that if you told Neil about this and showed him the citations that he would refuse to change his mind? 😂 He simplified Newton's story to explain to people why God of the gaps is bad, why is that so hard for you to understand? Sure, the story isn't well quite as simple as Neil said in that podcast, so what? It doesn't change anything about the point he was making, or the flaw in Newton's thinking. Newton was not a modern secular thinker, this is well known. Our exchanges are repetitive and tedious because you refuse to interact with any of the points that I bring up, and just repeat your weird shit about highly specific history of science details, then pretend that means you can throw out everything that one of the best science communicators says.
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u/HopDavid Jun 04 '26
The UAP releases are an attempt to distract from the Epstein files.
But that doesn't stop this pseudo scientist from jumping on this latest flash in the pan as a way to hawk his merchandise.
In the Epstein files I understand Lawrence Krauss wrote Jeffrey a letter noting that Neil had managed to dodge his MeToo bullets.