If there is one topic in each weeksCosmosthat sends the Christian fundamentalists into a frenzy, it is evolution. <\/p>\n
You see, scientists understand that most sciences cannot be done correctly if you ignore the scientific fact of evolution. Yet, week in and week out, creationists critique the job Tyson and his team of writers are doing, calling them speculative and misleading. <\/p>\n
Creationists would have you believe that Tyson and his crew are force-feeding viewers a story of evolution dreamed up in the minds of those who simply want to refute God and spread atheism. <\/p>\n
Calling evolutionary biologists names such as evolutionistsa word not used outside of the creationists sphereis an attempt to demean the science as nothing more than a religion; ironically, the very thing they are trying to sell you on. <\/p>\n
This weeks episode, titled, The Electric Boy was about scientist Michael Faraday. Faradays study of electricity led to some of the biggest discoveries and inventions in the history of mankind, ranging from the electric motor to the discovery of electromagnetic waves that surround just about everything. <\/p>\n
How on earth could creationists be upset with electricity? Well, Tyson had the audacity to mention that Faradays discoveries helped us explain how birds navigate the globe using the earths electromagnetic waves, and that their brains are evolutionarily wired for such a task. <\/p>\n
Writing for Answers in Genesis, the young earth creationists organization, Elizabeth Mitchell writes: <\/p>\n
Evolutionists assume our existence and theexistence of birdsmusthave an evolutionary explanation. Yet molecules-to-man evolutiondepending as it does on both the spontaneous emergence of life from non-living elements and the evolution of organisms into new, more complex onesdemands that we believe things thatviolatethe laws of nature (e.g., law of biogenesis). <\/p>\n
One can assume these words are barely Mitchells, as they puppet the same narrative week after week. First they claim scientists assume these evolved traits, ignoring the evidence behind the claim, and then quickly move on to false naturalistic claims such as broken laws of nature. <\/p>\n
What Tyson is saying in this episode is far from controversial; in fact, you would find it very challenging to locate scientists who would want to debate Tysons bird claim because it is so well understood. <\/p>\n
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