How It Is: A La Morgan Freeman

Morgan was interviewed this week on the Daily Show. He has a new show coming out on the Science Channel called "Through the 'Motherfucking' Wormhole, 'Motherfuckers', with Morgan 'Motherfucking' Freeman."

Jon asks: "Do scientists now know, do they have a sense of where we came from?"

Morgan: "There are scientists who have a very clear sense of where we came from, and there are other scientists who feel that the scientists who have a very clear idea don't know what they're talking about, because we don't have a very clear sense of where we come from."

Then, Jon asks after dark matter, how, apparently, dark matter and dark energy take up about five times more space in the universe than actual matter.

Jon: "What the hell does that mean?"

Morgan: "Exactly."

Jon: "And they say it's holding us together?"

Morgan: "How?"

Jon: "Right!"

Morgan: "Well, these are the questions that I like to ask also..."

Jon: "What do they tell you?"

Morgan: "This is where we get into the G-d part of it. Whatever scientists don't know, becomes a G-d factor."

Anyhow, apologies for the transcript. It's a good interview so might as well watch it: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-june-2-2010/morgan-freeman