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Neil deGrasse Tyson has been called many things. Groundbreaking astronomer. Dynamic communicator.\u00a0Sexiest astrophysicist alive<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n
But what about public theologian?<\/span><\/div>\n
It might sound crazy, but the recent reboot of the television show\u00a0Cosmos: A Personal Journey<\/em>\u2014 Carl Sagan\u2019s classic 1980s exploration of all things science, this time starring the charismatic Tyson and renamed \u201cCosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey<\/a>\u201d \u2014 is already attracting more attention for what it says about religion than astrophysics.<\/span><\/div>\n
The show, which premiered Sunday night, begins roughly as expected, with Tyson guiding viewers through a humbling and special-effect laden tour of our seemingly infinite cosmos. But things abruptly shift gears as the program enters its middle segment, with Tyson narrating an animated retelling of the life of Giordano Bruno, a 14th century Dominican friar who dared to make the bold claim that our universe is not confined to the solar system (with the sun at the center), but in fact home an infinite number of suns besides our own, each surrounded by worlds populated with intelligent beings.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Predictably, Bruno\u2019s ideas weren\u2019t exactly popular with the religious leadership of his day. Scene after scene shows him mocked and exiled for his passionate embrace of an infinite universe, and Bruno is eventually imprisoned and tortured by the religious \u201cthought police.\u201d Ultimately, despite Bruno\u2019s repeated assertion that his controversial conviction is fueled by his deep love in \u201cthe Creator,\u201d we see him burned at the stake for his beliefs.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Neil deGrasse Tyson has been called many things. Groundbreaking astronomer. Dynamic communicator.\u00a0Sexiest astrophysicist alive. But what about public theologian? It might sound crazy, but the recent reboot of the television show\u00a0Cosmos: A Personal Journey\u2014 Carl Sagan\u2019s classic 1980s exploration of all things science, this time starring the charismatic Tyson and renamed \u201cCosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nNeil DeGrasse Tyson Shows Science And Religion Can Co-Exist In \u2018Cosmos\u2019<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Neil deGrasse Tyson has been called many things. Groundbreaking astronomer. 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