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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
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Most of what Einstein said and did has no direct impact on what anybody reads in the Bible. Special relativity, his work in quantum mechanics, nobody even knows or cares. Where Einstein really affects the Bible is the fact that general relativity is the organizing principle for the Big Bang.
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Access to science is greater than ever before. There are more vehicles out there that grant the public access to science. Not to mention the Internet.
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