Neil Degrasse Tyson Critical Thinking Summary

To unlearn some of the rules of critical thinking means rewiring your brain and the way you take ideas into your mind. Critical thinking is the objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgment. An individual would have to get to the base of their thinking and then rework from there, erasing the way they think also know as, “unlearning it.” Likewise with the way one writes, people learn how to write starting from elementary school and work their way up building on from previous knowledge, so to completely unlearn the rules of writing would be like starting over again in learning how to write. This is because writing is not just putting thoughts on a paper. Writing style, techniques, word choice, etc. all go into how …show more content…
, and if so, should a scientist research and share scientific information or leave it alone. For years in the past humans used the gods/God to explain all the natural events that happened in the world. In Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s essay he shows the contrast between science and knowledge and using the gods/God to explain scientific feats. Tyson claims that scientists must choose because knowledge cannot work with the act of referring to a deity as an explanation for the acts in the world. Tyson builds his credibility by using well known scientists and citing articles directly, he follows with more convincing facts and examples to further his point. He closes his essay of with the same defense he started it with and finalizes with the point that scientist refuse ignorance because it shows a lack of knowledge and instead use a deity to explain what they do not know …show more content…
He first starts off with basic knowledge and facts. He is citing specific credible journals from scientists which proves he has done his research and is trustworthy to take in information from. He is very factual which implies clear confidence in delivery. Not only will he refer to a well known scientist instead of one with less popularity and notability but he will refer specifically to work that the scientist has written. Reading through this comforts the reader and brands his as a good source to obtain information from.
He uses proof and appeals to logos in his example with Newton, “ But in the absence of data, at the border between what he could explain and what he could only honor—the causes he could identify and those he could not—Newton rapturously invokes God.” This further clears his point up and uses facts and evidence to do so. Tyson has direct excerpts from scientific journals and articles, he has no lack of proof or reasoning. Furthermore, he will give comparisons with the scientists to elaborate on his