Whenever they are confronted with some fact that would make Flat-Earth impossible, they postulate some hitherto unknown physical phenomenon that makes Flat-Earth possible anyways.

(And for hobby-scientists, they are shockingly uneducated about basic things like inertia and momentum. They parrot talking-points, but they don't understand what they are talking about.)

...there is the question proposed "where do you find god(s)?"...the answer isn't "in the gaps", for all that lies within the "gaps" is ignorance.

So, unless one were to accept a definition of "god(s)" as nothing more than mere ignorance, the question is as meaningless as god(s) are a phantasm.

I don't believe I'd seen that episode. I love Neil. Visiting the Hayden Planetarium is high on my list.

I had heard about that quite some time ago, but in this context it strikes me as the perfect response to the "Atheism is a belief" strawman.

Education and research are the answers. Eventually. Until we know the answers, we simply have not discovered them yet. As we have seen, we will, though, in time.

When we answer, "I do not know," that is optimism speaking. "I do not know" is simply yet another thing to discover. "God did it" is a cheap excuse for a lack of curiosity.

...it is worse than a mere "cheap excuse", it is willful ignorance with arrogance and very negative consequences, and is derived from the same emotion that give rise to the hateful conservatism we see today. Fear.