Intelligent design, as I understand it, means that you have an intelligent designer somewhere. And the problem with that is, if you’re going to invoke an intelligent designer, you have to ask, 'Who designed the intelligent designer?'
— Neil deGrasse Tyson Contemporary

Astrophysicist, science communicator

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Interview on PBS NewsHour

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2007

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Controversial

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