Does it mean, if you don’t understand something, and the community of physicists don’t understand it, that means God did it? Is that how you want to … - Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Does it mean, if you don’t understand something, and the community of physicists don’t understand it, that means God did it? Is that how you want to play this game? Because if it is, here’s a list of things in the past that the physicists at the time didn’t understand [and now we do understand] [...]. If that’s how you want to invoke your evidence for God, then God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that’s getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on - so just be ready for that to happen, if that’s how you want to come at the problem.

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About Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson (born October 5, 1958) is an American , science communicator, Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space, and since 2006 host at PBS's educational television show NOVA scienceNOW.

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Alternative Names: Neil Tyson Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson

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