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Apparently, Bill O’Reilly has never heard of the moon. In a debate Tuesday with Dave Silverman, head of the American Atheist group behind this, the Fox host tried to prove the existence of God by citing the unknowable mysteries of the tides. “I’ll tell you why [religion is] not a scam, in my opinion,” he told Silverman. “Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can’t explain that. You can’t explain why the tide goes in.” . . .
I saw the show and you totally missed the point that most would get.
Yet another (yawn) FOX News bashing thread. lol.
I like bill O'reilly, but he's a very religious guy and like all very religious people he believes "God" is the explanation for everything we can't explain yet. Oh well, most of the time he's sensible.
I like bill O'reilly, but he's a very religious guy and like all very religious people he believes "God" is the explanation for everything we can't explain yet. Oh well, most of the time he's sensible.
I guess unlike nonreligous guys who don't use God for everything we can't explain yet?
Apparently, Bill O’Reilly has never heard of the moon. In a debate Tuesday with Dave Silverman, head of the American Atheist group behind this, the Fox host tried to prove the existence of God by citing the unknowable mysteries of the tides. “I’ll tell you why [religion is] not a scam, in my opinion,” he told Silverman. “Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can’t explain that. You can’t explain why the tide goes in.” Bill O'Reilly on Science: You Can't Explain the Tides - O'Reilly flubs science in debate with man behind atheist billboards
I've been looking for a reason to use this emoticon;
I like bill O'reilly, but he's a very religious guy and like all very religious people he believes "God" is the explanation for everything we can't explain yet. Oh well, most of the time he's sensible.
Well, yeah. That's called God of the gaps. Every time science cannot explain things right now, or to his satisfaction, it's god. If we relied on that modern science, medicine, physics, chemistry would never have existed. Haven't you ever heard of "If god meant us to fly, he would have given us wings"?
Apparently, Bill O’Reilly has never heard of the moon. In a debate Tuesday with Dave Silverman, head of the American Atheist group behind this, the Fox host tried to prove the existence of God by citing the unknowable mysteries of the tides. “I’ll tell you why [religion is] not a scam, in my opinion,” he told Silverman. “Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can’t explain that. You can’t explain why the tide goes in.” Bill O'Reilly on Science: You Can't Explain the Tides - O'Reilly flubs science in debate with man behind atheist billboards
If memory serves, Billy O went to parochial schools. They probably didn't have science classes in the 50s.
I like bill O'reilly, but he's a very religious guy and like all very religious people he believes "God" is the explanation for everything we can't explain yet. Oh well, most of the time he's sensible.
Here is my question. Do you believe we will ever be able to explain everything? Do you think we will ever be able to explain how something could have been created out of nothing? Because if we do, that would mean that we could potentially create more something out of nothing. And being that the universe is about 13 billion years old? And something has only been created out of nothing once ever, and not just a small amount of matter, but massive quantities of matter, an unbelievable amount of matter.
I personally don't believe humans will ever be able to answer such a question. Regardless of the scientific breakthroughs we come up with. I think the law of the conservation of mass will never be broken(as it has not been broken since before the big bang, and only once).
Secondly, if you understand how time dillation works. It seems practically impossible that humans will ever really leave Earth and go any distance. If they did, everything they knew would be gone, as time would seemingly fly by for everyone other than you, and the world you would return to would be nothing like the world you left.
There aren't going to be colonies on mars or anywhere else in our solar system. The planets have too little mass(or too much mass), and cannot support an atmosphere. Your body has adjusted to life on Earth. If you were to live on Mars, you would become too weak to ever return to Earth. And even if you could, radio signals can only travel at the speed of light, which means that transmissions to and from anywhere other than Earth would take minutes or hours to reach their destination, even in our solar system.
Look around you, this is all you will ever have. This one little insignificant planet. Make the best of it, and don't ruin it.
Last edited by Redshadowz; 01-07-2011 at 09:20 PM..
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