Moon Landing Hoax? How Faith Blocks Reason

Dr. Eugenie Scott, Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education, distinguishes between empirically based knowledge and "revealed knowledge," or knowledge gathered from a higher power. She uses the Bhaktivedanta Institute's disbelief in the 1969 moon landing as an example of revealed knowledge.

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This program was recorded in collaboration with the 2010 SkeptiCal Conference, in Berkeley, CA, on April 24, 2010.

How are science and skepticism related? Is skepticism a part of science, or is science a tool of skepticism? Dr. Eugenie C. Scott, Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education, discusses these questions, and explores the importance of teaching both science and skepticism. - SkeptiCal

Eugenie Scott, a former university professor, is the Executive Director of NCSE. She has been both a researcher and an activist in the creationism/evolution controversy for over twenty-five years, and can address many components of this controversy, including educational, legal, scientific, religious, and social issues.

She has received national recognition for her NCSE activities, including awards from scientific societies, educational societies, skeptics groups, and humanist groups. She holds six honorary degrees from McGill, Rutgers, Mt. Holyoke, the University of New Mexico, Ohio State, and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. A dynamic speaker, she offers stimulating and thought-provoking as well as entertaining lectures and workshops.

Scott is the author of Evolution vs Creationism and co-editor, with Glenn Branch, of Not in Our Classrooms: Why Intelligent Design Is Wrong for Our Schools.

[Peterkramer]

@egenriether i'm a scientist too (engineer actually) started studying the photos and films critically when I was 39 (never felt the need) and was shocked. Many, many mistakes. And despite mythbusters a.o. imo nothing is debunked. So now, 40, I've decided it's all fake but it's not a neat idea believe me. In fact it's terrible.

For critical analysis google jack white and apollo.

[davidempey]

going to the moon with the tech back then? not a chance in hell.

[neilarmstrongsson]

You only have to watch the apollo 11 'return" press conference to know what really happened.

[luckyfisher]

Half a million miles in 3 days at 14, 000 mph. We slowed down to land. Re Launched a LANDING module back to 14k mph with zero fuel.. then popped a parachute upon returning during a live TV feed with lead batteries. Had a dune buggy up there before the cell phone was invented.. yet Nasa LOST the technology to return?!

[hunchbacked]

I would not be a moon hoaxer if they had not put all these clues into the project; I am one because they made me one.
If they had done exactly what the CIA was expecting from them, I would not be a moon hoaxer, because I would have nothing to show.

[mdoll]

They can't come up with a better argument against the moon landing than "it would take a terribly long time to get there"?

[fortells]

@tommillers Well, guess who Mythbusters is sponsed by. Yep, NASA.

[Budvb]

@grimwatcher If i had to narrow down Vedic mathematics, i would say it was used as a tradesmen mathematics. Used by mostly builders for laying bricks and doing geometrical calculations on the fly and on site. Made the job easier and faster.
But I bet if the Power Turns off on the Globe your Math will be useless compaired to the Mind Power of Vedic, because your calculator won't work too well. You Got to remember during the creation of Vedic their was no Power Grid.

[downwindspiral]

@ruddip
no, the vid. is saying that it is beyond reason
to consider that the moon landing was faked.
i think it requires faith to believe the apollo missions
reasoning brings out too many discrepancies

[Nidair]

34 people do not know what a solar eclipse is.

[willrandship]

@SpreadingtheMuse Actually, the reason we don't regularly use those devices is because they don't produce enouguh energy to warrant their cost. Same reason why we don't use thermocouple-based energy for shallow-depth geothermal power production. Theoretically, they both work, but the reality is that entropytakes away so much, along with costs of maintenance, that the small trickle you do get is dwarfed.

[TheMsdos]

if you see them ask them this; If the sun is closer, how does a solar eclipse happen?

[weezilla]

@vudumojo I think I must be missing your argument 1] I have a problem with the statement "ALL came." I've met someone who worked on the space landing who I'm inclined to believe (they attended my university back in the day). 2] Why would we stage something like this with the USSR 3] If I recall my social history correctly, most defectors of Germany didn't much like the USSR. Many scientists came to the US and were very supportive of us.

Am I missing your reasoning?

[nightninj]

i swear, someone should just invent a huge-ass telescope, point it at the moon and show the world whether is Mr. Armstrong's footprints, landing evidence, etc are there. End all this crap about conspiracy.

[hunchbacked]

I have never denied satellites.
But landing on the moon is quite a different matter, especially with the technology of the sixties.

[believersunderground]

The next nearest buoy is over 500 km away and has not been showing data since 17 March 2010. However from 16 March to 17 March its water level readins dropped 39 metres. Is this just a coincidence? And why is this buoy still out of service? A report on God Like Productions (GLP) stated that the last data shown on NDBC Station no. 55012 was:

[JonaVicis]

If the moon is farther away from earth than the sun is, how do they explain a solar eclipse, where the moon passes between earth and sun?

[amor]

@iorixs no, if im not mistaken, they do not have to perform another burn to get into lunar orbit. the next burn is trans earth injection. and no, with 1/6th earth gravity and NO atmospheric drag you need nothing like the Saturn rocket to get off the moon. Please do some research. The LM uses hypergolic fuels, which produce an invisible flame when burnt in a vacuum, just like other substances like kerosene. all you can see is the ignition. not much fuel is used in lunar descent and ascent btw.

[sabrmstr]

The sun emits radiation at very high frequencies which include gamma and large amounts of ultraviolet.
On Earth there is the ozone layer which abosrbs the radiation so that we are not affected by the radiation unless we are exposed to it for long periods of time.

[amor]

@iorixs it was actually 25, 000 miles per hour. and yes. it can be done by the way. 25, 000, not 57, 000.