Via JMG: Neil deGrasse Tyson Trolls Creationists
"The Crab Nebula is about 6,500 light years from Earth. According to
some beliefs, that’s the age of the whole universe, but if the universe
were only 6,500 years old, how could we see light from anything more
distant than the Crab Nebula? We couldn’t. To believe in a universe as
young as 6,000 or 7,000 years old is to extinguish the light from most
of the galaxy, not to mention the light from all the other hundred
billion galaxies in the observable universe." - Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, in Sunday's episode of Cosmos, which focused on the speed of light.
Reposted from Joe Jervis
Labels: astronomy, Cosmos, creationism, Neil deGrasse Tyson, outer space, religion, science, television
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