Bill Nye vs. Ken Ham - Full Debate

February 4, 2014

Daniel Dennett, Lawrence Krauss and Massimo Pigliucci discuss The Limits Of Science

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Creationism is fine ‘as long as you don’t confuse it with actual science’

From Raw Story:

Wednesday on his radio show “Star Talk,” astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson addressed a reader’s query about the Creation Museum and the theory of a “Young Earth,” which is part of the Christian Creationist myth, the idea that the Earth is only a few thousand years old.

“I visited the Creation Museum,” wrote the listener, “purely out of a sense of mystified curiosity. The recorded narration in their planetarium said that contemporary astrophysics predicted [sic] that certain stars were older than the known age of the universe and cited this problem as evidence against science and for Young Earth creationism.”

“I was hoping Neil might tell me a little bit more about the problem and its solution,” the note concluded.

“Which problem?” asked Tyson. “That the Creation Museum exists at all?”

He went on to say that while he has nothing against Creationism museums, per se, “just keep it out of the science classroom.”

“We live in a free country,” he continued, “and you can say whatever you want about whatever. That’s what it means to be free. Just don’t confuse it with actual science.”
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Origins Of Us | Dr. Alice Roberts | BBC Documentary

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Origins of Us tells the story of our species, homo sapiens. In every one of our bodies is the evidence of how we evolved away from our ape cousins to become the adaptable, successful species we are today.

Anatomist and physical anthropologist Dr Alice Roberts reveals the key adaptations in our body that has contributed to our extra-ordinary success. Far from being inevitable, the evolution of our species is a product of pure chance. And with each anatomical advantage comes a cost, which many of us are still paying today. Bad backs, painful childbirth, impacted wisdom teeth are all a by-product of our evolutionary success.

This is a journey through your own body, 6 million years and 300 000 generations of our family, from a tree dwelling ape in the forests of Africa, to you and the six billion other humans on Earth today.

Lawrence Krauss: The Flavors of Nothing

Theoretical Physicist Lawrence Krauss explains the different types of nothing. Or something.

Neil deGrasse Tyson's COSMOS (Official Trailer)

Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, originally aired as a thirteen-part television series in 1980 that saw Carl Sagan elucidating the mysteries of the universe and life's origins for a mass audience. Though the original was and is still fantastic, the show does look dated at this point, and modern public is used to a little more, say, flare in their space CGI. But from the looks of the trailer, Neil deGrasse Tyson is more than answering that call. The new, also 13-part series will be airing on Fox sometime in Spring of 2014.

(via Gizmodo)

Intelligent Design

by The Thinking Atheist

Richard Dawkins Lecture at Penn U | March 2013

March 12, 2013 at the University of Pennsylvania

Richard Dawkins is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008. He spoke about the role proof plays in evolutionary biology.

The renowned evolutionary biologist and author received the Penn Museum’s Wilton Krogman Award for Distinguished Achievement in Biological Anthropology when he visited the University of Pennsylvania on March 12, 2013. The Award was presented at the 2013 Bicentennial Philomatheon Society Annual Oration, sold out within days of its announcement, in Irvine Auditorium.

(Thanks mlon)

Dawkins, Krauss Preview 'The Unbelievers' | Global News Canada

April 29, 2013 on Global News (Canada)

Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss are on The Morning Show to talk about The Unbelievers, which explores the importance of science and reason in the modern world.

http://UnbelieversMovie.com/

Dawkins, Krauss on CNN to Discuss New Documentary 'The Unbelievers'

April 28, 2013 on CNN

Lawrence Krauss and Richard Dawkins discuss religion in the modern world and debate science in their new film "The Unbelievers"

The Great Debate: The Storytelling of Science

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The Origins Project at ASU presents the final night in the Origins Stories weekend, focusing on the science of storytelling and the storytelling of science. The Storytelling of Science features a panel of esteemed scientists, public intellectuals, and award-winning writers including well-known science educator Bill Nye, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, theoretical physicist Brian Greene, Science Friday's Ira Flatow, popular science fiction writer Neal Stephenson, executive director of the World Science Festival Tracy Day, and Origins Project director Lawrence Krauss as they discuss the stories behind cutting edge science from the origin of the universe to a discussion of exciting technologies that will change our future. They demonstrate how to convey the excitement of science and the importance helping promote a public understanding of science.

'science' of the gaps

by TheraminTrees

David Attenborough: First Life | BBC

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In more than fifty years of broadcasting, Sir David Attenborough has travelled the globe to document the living world in all its wonder. Now, in the landmark series First Life, he goes back in time in search of the very first animals.

David Attenborough’s First Life is told with stunning photography, state of the art visual effects and the captivating charm of the world’s favourite naturalist. It was first broadcast as a two-part series in the UK on BBC Two in November 2010, and as a two-hour special by Discovery Channel in the US. It is now being shown by broadcasters around the world, including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Filmed over the course of a year, the companion film Attenborough’s Journey is a remarkable portrait of the world’s leading natural history broadcaster as completes his latest series. As he faces the challenges of a complicated filming shoot, David Attenborough revisits parts of the world that have had special meaning for him throughout his career.

Richard Dawkins on Science: 'It works, bitches'

A short clip from Richard Dawkins' conversation with Dr. Stephen Law

Superstition

by QualiaSoup

• Footage of Derek Acorah 'possessed' by Kreed Kafer (anagram of 'Derek faker')
• Footage of Derek 'possessed' by Rik Eedles (anagram of 'Derek lies')
• BBC programme 'Bullshit Detectors' exposes 3 'mediums'
• 1023 Campaign: Homeopathy: there's nothing in it
  
  

New Evidence that Life on Earth May Have Come from Outer Space

March 11, 2013 on MSNBC News

Neil deGrasse Tyson on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - Extended Interview

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Canada
March 6, 2013 on The Daily Show:

In this exclusive, unedited interview, "Space Chronicles" author Neil deGrasse Tyson shares the science behind asteroid detection, argues against using nuclear weapons to counter potentially Earth-killing asteroids, remembers the "space bat" and shares his anxiety over humanity's galactic dignity.

The Psychology of Belief - Bias and the Brain

by The Thinking Atheist

Caleb Lack, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, professor, and writes the "Great Plains Skeptic" column.

In this clip, Dr. Lack addresses the biases that so often inform religious (and non-religious) worldviews.

Pat Robertson Dismisses "Nutty" Climate Scientists

February 21, 2012 on CBN

“Only in Princeton would people say nutty things like that,” Robertson said. “You know, they get to be PhDs and they wonder where they’ve studied and learned all these things. But I tell you, if you’re a true believer bad things will happen because you see them coming.”

(via RWW)

A Monkey That Controls A Robot With Its Thoughts

Filmed at TEDMED 2012

Can we use our brains to directly control machines -- without requiring a body as the middleman? Miguel Nicolelis talks through an astonishing experiment, in which a clever monkey in the US learns to control a monkey avatar, and then a robot arm in Japan, purely with its thoughts. The research has big implications for quadraplegic people -- and maybe for all of us.