{"id":21402,"date":"2026-02-09T19:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21402"},"modified":"2026-02-09T19:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:04:13","slug":"you-cant-unhear-this-neil-degrasse-tyson-dismantles-religion-in-25-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21402","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;You Can\u2019t Unhear This\u201d \u2014 Neil deGrasse Tyson Dismantles Religion in 25 Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When you see a rainbow you are seeing light split through water. No one sees the same rainbow as you because they are seeing a different split of light split through different water. You can&#8217;t see a rainbow from the side because it only splits toward you. You can&#8217;t get to the bottom of the rainbow, because you are always seeing it straight on. That&#8217;s why it is a good place to hide the gold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to believe God explains the things science can&#8217;t, that is your right to believe what you want. But you shouldn&#8217;t be designing a school&#8217;s science curriculum, because that idea undermines what science is. That is an ideology of ignorance, while science is a process of discovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u201cYou Can\u2019t Unhear This\u201d \u2014 Neil deGrasse Tyson Dismantles Religion in 25 Minutes\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p_dBmg-e4PU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you see a rainbow you are seeing light split through water. No one sees the same rainbow as you because they are seeing a different split of light split through different water. You can&#8217;t see a rainbow from the side because it only splits toward you. You can&#8217;t get to the bottom of the rainbow, because you are always seeing it straight on. That&#8217;s why it is a good place to hide the gold. <\/p>\n<p>If you want to believe God explains the things science can&#8217;t, that is your right to believe what you want. But you shouldn&#8217;t be designing a school&#8217;s science curriculum, because that idea undermines what science is. That is an ideology of ignorance, while science is a process of discovery. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=p_dBmg-e4PU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[670,356,671,1856,57,357,811,672],"class_list":["post-21402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-church-and-state","tag-education","tag-establishment-of-religion","tag-freedom-of-religion","tag-religion","tag-school","tag-science","tag-separation-of-church-and-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21403,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21402\/revisions\/21403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}