Bill O’Reilly making stupid comments on TV is nothing new, but last month he had one of his worst. David Silverman, from American Atheists, was on the show defending an atheist billboard, and O’Reilly tries to prove the existence of god with this gem of a quote, “Tide goes in, tide goes out, never a miscommunication. You [Silverman], can’t explain that. ”
That quote has spawned my new favourite meme. I have been lurking reddit over the past few days, and have been saving the best of the images.
First, check out The Colbert Report Covering the quote:
Then, check out the images that redditors have been hard at work making:
Last night on the Daily Show, Jon Stewart interviewed the author of “Absence of Mind”, Marilynne Robinson. ”Absence of Mind” is an attack on atheists that fly the banner of science. At the beginning of the interview, Stewart asked some fairly straight forward questions, but only received lace doily answers. It was obvious that Robinson didn’t really have a core thesis to her book, and she only made random claims that religion and science aren’t mutually exclusive. Upon initially not receiving any revealing answers, Stewart failed to ask any more deeper probing questions. In fact, he did the opposite. He started to agree and sympathize with her. This lead to one of Stewart’s worst quotes of the evening:
The more you delve into science, the more it relies on faith.
Stewart was referring to antimatter, inferring that one needs faith to believe in antimatter. There is actually a lot of evidence that support’s antimatter’s existence. Faith is not required to believe in antimatter.
Robinson fails to see the simple fact that religion and science are mutually exclusive by definition. Religion relies on faith, and science relies on evidence. It is impossible to be a religious scientist. If someone claims they are, they are neither truly religious or a true scientist.
After listening to Robinson’s interview, I would not recommend buying her book, as it would most likely be a waste of time.
Link to the interview for Americans
Link to the interview for Canadians
…sorry to everyone else…here’s google
This is just pure gold from Dr. Ahmed Kutty, the author of Adam’s Gene and the Mitochondrial Eve: The Non-incestuous Descent of Man from Adam and Eve: A Paleo-anthropologic and Scientific Synthesis and Evolution Based on the Epics of Hinduism the Bible And the Qur’an: What Are the Scriptures Saying?.
This is one of the funniest and saddest videos I’ve seen in a while.
[via skepchick.org]
Sorry for the late easter post. I was out spending the day at Science World in Vancouver. I thought that was an appropriate activity for an easter Sunday.
Also, I was not impressed that both Safeway and Save-on-foods closed at 6pm tonight.
(NB these were actually just made with this Church Sign Generator)
“Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it, but they were under heel of the French, and they got together and made a pact to the devil. They said, ‘We will serve you, if you get us free from the french.’ True Story ” – Pat Robertson
Are you kidding me Robertson?
Check out the vid:
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