Director of the Hayden Planetarium Neil deGrasse Tyson. Photo by NASA/Bill Ingalls via Wikimedia Commons
Director of the Hayden Planetarium Neil deGrasse Tyson. Photo by NASA/Bill Ingalls via Wikimedia Commons

Neil deGrasse Tyson is a dreamer, but he’s not the only one, when he calls for a new nation called Rationalia, where scientific evidence rules.

But evidence of his critics was widespread a day after his tweeted proposal Wednesday.

At Splicetoday.com, Todd Seavey said: “Critics roundly denounced his oversimplification and hubris. I’ve written comic books, a sci-fi short story, and articles on the virtue of science-based skepticism — but still know that the futurists and science buffs can be as wrong as anyone else.”

At CWEB.com, which posted a video showing the celebrity astrophysicist explaining the origins of atheism, we hear:

“If being rational all it takes to improve the human condition, the challenge is to get people to be rational and objective. And as we know, humans seem to be naturally irrational, selfish and subjective. Even scientic facts thought to be objective have been subject to scrutiny by human agendas, emotions, propaganda and of course greed.

“So long as humans exist, so will irrationality. If we were Vulcans, maybe the story would be different.”

Other skeptics of scientism emerged.

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