Jon Stewart's interview with Marilynn Robinson was beyond belief. Jon knows that astrophysics is based on faith. The rationality of science reduces to fideism. Truly sophomoric.
I will just stop watching or listening to Jonathon Stuart Leibowitz - the interview was not amusing, or informative or satirical or ironic - it was just dumb. Compare any interview with Murray Gell-Mann. So astronomy will now be on a par with astrology. What was the David Hilbert quote? Or do we defer to Ronald Reagan's insight? Careful observation led to the dark matter hypothesis as much as esoteric theory: so dark matter is "Devil's Dung" or is it "souls of infidels". Pick your ignorance, Jon!
"If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology. "
attributed to mathematician David Hilbert
"I don't guide my life by it ... I don't know enough about it to say, is there something to it or not ... and I don't mean to offend anyone who does believe in it, or engages in it."
Ronald Reagan on astrology
But will he interview the woman whose careful science gave us some of the first observational evidence for dark matter??? And will her personal views on mystery and faith be of any interest? Her views on sex? On vegetables? What she thinks causes her occasional constipation?
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