The episode reminds us that knowing the laws of motion and gravity made space exploration possible. The episode explains how Edmund Halley used the laws of motion and gravity, mathematically described by Isaac Newton, to accurately predict the return of Halley’s comet every 76 years. The episode rightly debunks superstitions about comets presaging disasters. God’s Word tells us that death is an enemy and that Jesus Christ will someday put an end to death ( 1 Corinthians 15:26). “Death” is the hero in an evolutionary worldview. If we reject God’s explanation for death and suffering, we may turn to evolutionary explanations that paint death as the agent that weeds out the unfit and allows the strong to survive and evolve. We cannot correctly understand why our world is full of death and suffering if we do not know what God’s Word tells us about the rebellion of Adam and Eve, the Curse their sin brought upon all creation, and the sinful nature all humans inherit.
God our Creator has not left us without His testimony concerning our origins. By examining the interlocking genealogical information and history in the Bible, we learn that God created the heavens and the earth and all kinds of life about 6,000 years ago. He created all things-including living things that reproduce after their kinds-in six days ( Exodus 20:11 Genesis 1–2). He told us what He did, how long it took, and about how long ago He did it. We must rely on a historical record from an eyewitness to accurately understand “where we came from.” But when it comes to learning about our origins, we cannot test and observe the past. With God-given intelligence, humans have sought to understand the present and the past, to learn about the earth and what lies beyond. God created Adam and Eve with intelligence. Like the overall Cosmos theme, the remainder of this opening is a metaphysical declaration grounded in an atheistic philosophy.
Doing so had nothing to do with scientifically discovering our origins. That’s where the “truth” of this statement ends.
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How to go to the moon was something we had to figure out for ourselves. We’ve had to figure it all out for ourselves. We awakened on this tiny world beneath a blanket of stars like an abandoned baby left on a doorstep without a note to explain where we came from, who we are, how our universe came to be, and with no idea how to end our cosmic isolation. We were born into a mystery, one that has haunted us for at least as long as we’ve been human. Lest anyone get the idea that a Creator could have provided humans with trustworthy knowledge about our origins, Tyson-lifting an infant from a basket-opens this episode of Cosmos declaring, Then after telling about the discovery of the laws of motion and gravity that govern the movements of planets and comets, program host Neil deGrasse Tyson declares modern humanity’s independence from any need of God, saying, “Gravity is the clockmaker.” Open Rejection of Biblical Revelation See Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey for reviews of other episodes and discussion guides for further study.Ĭosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey spends much of episode three painting biblical Christianity with the same brush as false religions and superstitions.