Neil deGrasse Tyson on Life, the Universe, and Everything

This presentation was part of the Beyond Belief lecture series from November of 2006.

Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium for the Museum of Natural History and former Sexiest Astrophysicist Alive (People Magazine 2000), gives a terrific talk about scientific history, astronomy, physics, the ludicrousness of intelligent design, British postage stamps, religion, and atheism.

The New York Times said this about the conference:

Somewhere along the way, a forum this month at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., which might have been one more polite dialogue between science and religion, began to resemble the founding convention for a political party built on a single plank: in a world dangerously charged with ideology, science needs to take on an evangelical role, vying with religion as teller of the greatest story ever told.

Here is the video of Tyson's lecture:


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