"Answers In Genesis" demands equal time on "Cosmos"

[Archae]

Yes, just what you read.
Since Neil Tyson didn't advocate their fairy tale, they are demanding he does.

Creationists Demand Airtime On 'Cosmos' For The Sake Of Balance

Submitted by Brian Tashman on Friday, 3/21/2014 12:30 pm

The Creationist group Answers In Genesis, which was already incensed about Neil deGrasse Tyson’s revival of Cosmos, is now complaining that the show lacks scientific balance because it fails to provide airtime for evolution deniers.

Danny Faulkner of Answers In Genesis and the Creation Museum appeared on The Janet Mefferd Show yesterday to criticize Cosmos for not providing airtime for Creationism adherents. When Mefferd asked if Cosmos will “ever give a Creationist any time,” Faulkner responded by lamenting that “Creationists aren’t even on the radar screen for them, they wouldn’t even consider us plausible at all.”

Mefferd agreed that the show isn’t being very fair and balanced: “Boy, but when you have so many scientists who simply do not accept Darwinian evolution it seems to me that that might be something to throw in there, you know, the old, ‘some scientists say this, others disagree and think this,’ but that’s not even allowed.”

“Consideration of special Creation is definitely not open for discussion it would seem,” Faulkner added.
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[Skidmore]

1. Didn't they get the message that Tyson does not debate these

issues?

[JoePhilly]

4. Unless God tells them, it didn't happen.

[JoePhilly]

2. Yea, almost half of 1% of all scientists are creationists.

Maybe.

[Journeyman]

3. Does Tyson get equal time on every episode of "Prey TV"? . . .

[randome]

5. Religion needs to stay on religious forums. Science on science forums.

It's very simple.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]

[notadmblnd]

6. No it doesn't!

There plenty of Xtian channels. They can produce their own show and sell it to one of them. "Cosmos" is a program about science, not superstition.

[jsr]

7. Yep, look no farther:

[randome]

12. If we all pray real hard to Sega...something may happen.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Treat your body like a machine. Your mind like a castle.[/center][/font][hr]

[Archae]

14. I always thought it was "Answers In The Genesis Project."

The one Khan set off.

Or is it a "Land Of Confusion?"

[factsarenotfair]

8. Then I demand equal time for Genesis in the Skeptic's Annotated Bible.

http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/gen/1.html

[Warren DeMontague]

9. "Bullshit Demands Equal Time With Truth"

Film at 11.

[Humanist_Activist]

10. I find it surprising that more people aren't talking about Tyson's shot at theistic evolution...

the evolution that organizations like the Catholic Church advocates, as a "compromise" between creationism and scientific facts, evolution guided by a god. Tyson flat out said that unguided evolution was a fact, no equivocations or buts added to it to mollify the religious.

[Control-Z]

15. Why would he? (nt)

[factsarenotfair]

11. I also demand time for the Highwaymen's take on existence:

[elias7]

13. Considering that there are hundreds of creation myths, what is so special about Christianity's?

This guy just misses the whole point abour religion. These stories are not meant to be read as historical fact, but as symbolic for a process that is unknowable and ineffable.

Science does its best to uncover underlying principles of the universe. A living, thriving religious philosophy is in harmony with science, not in competition.

[FiveGoodMen]

18. The US mob that supports it

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

16. Let them have the equal time

Just so long as they can get Carl Sagan himself to sign off on it.

Otherwise, as my Grandpa used to say, fuck 'em and feed 'em fish!

[FiveGoodMen]

17. In exchange for that, does reality get equal time on Fox?