Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

Just because you're smart about one thing, that doesn't mean you're smart about everything.

And that's especially true when smart scientists

start talking about philosophical issues like the existence of God. Welcome to the

Council of Trent Podcast. I'm your host, Cathayans's apologist and speaker, Trent Horn, and today we'll be talking about

famous astrophysicist Neil de Gras Tyson's thoughts on atheism and the existence of God.

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All right, so Neil de Ross Tyson is an astrophysicist who many people find to be

smug and condescending.

He has a bad habit of chiming in about many subjects or

nitpicking things on the internet. He is the living embodiment of the

actually meme, actually.

So sometimes he does this for stuff that's true,

but nobody cares, like pointing out

how Star Wars Thai fighters make noise in space when they shouldn't

or how we don't actually leap anywhere on leap day. In other cases he opines on things outside his area of expertise and he gets that stuff wrong.

Like when he said sex couldn't possibly be painful in other species or they go extinct, which is not true. There are animals

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