Point of Inquiry’s latest show has an interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson, host of PBS’s ScienceNow.
http://www.pointofinquiry.org/?p=94
He discusses how important it is to embrace the tools and methods of science. He states that ignorance of and lack of accepting the scientific view of examining the universe will be as personally harmful and dangerous in the new millennium as being illiterate in this last century.
He discusses how all the aspects of theological passion and joy and wonder is just as valid for him in the discoveries and appreciation of the natural world. When he considers the way in which photons from stars and galaxies light years away register on his retina and allow him to see the universe, the same words of amazement that are familiar to the religious come from his mouth.
He discusses that it’s vital that scientists work to popularize science as it’s the foundation of modern existence, and the key to understanding reality.
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