re: #82 Lidane

THIS.

We live in a country where a substantial percentage of the population believe in a Young Earth and deny that the universe is billions of years old. They think that a scientific theory is just a hunch. Explaining the “simple rules” of science and giving a sense of scale for the universe at large and how it’s amazing that we’re even here at all is a good start.

As a country, the US has become more fundamentalist and/or dumber than it was when the first Cosmos aired. The new Cosmos has to re-educate a whole new generation of viewers.