can we just line up all these morons and shoot them in the back of the head KGB style? I just really can not fathom in the deepest reaches of my mind how someone could possibly be that thick headed and stupid. My god people the evidence is so blinding you have to run and hide from it not to see it! SCIENCE IS FACT! NOT SPECULATION!


You god is enslaving you. Withholding the truth from you and filling your minds with lies. You will sacrifice your only time on earth and that sick bastard will eat your soul when you die. Please if not for me for your self, stop believing the lies! OPEN YOUR MIND!

lord_spap_oop

Let's see cytosine, guanine, adanine and thymine, or C, G, A and T. C always pairs with G and T always with A. So there's not exactly much in the way of combinations and so not much in the way of complexity. The length of a sequence is immaterial to the complexity argument. Why is it so many people can't grasp that?

Pro Zack
The problem is when a lot of scientists have a lot of time and or money invested in a theory, they crap on alternative theories, and support theories that agree with theirs.

Scientists ignore data all the time, they call it normalizing.

First off, you're confusing theories and hypotheses. Second of all, yes, like all professions, science has it's share of unscrupulous people, which is why we have the peer-review process, and why, before findings are accepted, the studies are independantly repeated.

The fact is science is very, very often right. No other method of information gathering has ever come close to the success rate of science, which is why every working piece of medicine and technology that you use today exists.

I MUST HAVE A LINK TO THESE MR. WIZARD VIDEOS YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT!

NOW!

Waaaaaaaaahhhh! We can't make unsubstantiated claims about the nature of the universe without criticism anymore. Waaaaaaaaaahhhh!

Dil Doe: the first settlers here who came from repressive Victorian England
I think you mean Elizabethan England. Victoria came much later.

My friend was a valet at the Statler at Cornell and he drove Bill Nye to the airport. My friend said he didn't tip him and was kind of an ass.

/Beakman was better - The guy in the Rat suit? What was that all about?

//Beakman also had that hot chick assistant. What was her name?

I'm more science than faith
more karma than bread and booze
I'm not an assh*le
I'm just a little confused
-Aesop Rock

See, I lived in Waco for 30 years. That is extremely typical of a city with a population of 200,000+ and the mentality of a Puritan village.

Bill Nye went to my high school.

/I-sos-celes

Diogenes: 5uperman: Why would you intentionally take your kids to places/events where you know you stand a good chance of being insulted or offended? And then disrupt it instead of leaving quietly? As you would when you inadvertantly take your kids to a movie you didn't know would have content you don't want to expose them to.

Do you got to tittie bars just so you can cover your eyes and yell, "This is sinful!"

Don't wear your faith on your sleeve, and you might find that people respect it and you more.


I agree she shouldn't have yelled out as she left, unless someone in the crowd provoked her. She should have just left.

However, your assumption that anyone would know that Bill Nye the Science guy would tell them they should not take their beliefs literally is ludacris!

How many episodes of his kids show did Dr. Bill tell the kiddies that the Bible was full of lies? I'm going to go with ZERO. This family obviously expected a live version of the television show and instead got a lecture accusing them of ignorant backwardness.

That's not what America is about. If she wants to believe in the literal word, she can. I can't believe the hypocrisy here! You are advocating parental censorship!

Remember your stance here the next time someone wants to picket a funeral. Asscake.

The old testament was written after centuries of oral tradition. Even if they were inspired by the word of god, they had to be passed down for generations before they were written down. Has anyone played the telephone game? no telling what the original stories were.

the stories are mostly agrigorical in nature.

/Purple monkey dishwasher

loungechaircarebear

I've looked, but the only ones I have found are the ones you have to pay for and are mostly the older series back in the 1950's. The site I am talking about had a collection of about 15 or 20 and were mostly outtakes or the "best of" moments.

I am going to have to leave work early because I am crying hysterically over the "sucking from straws" memories. That was great...."now, the longer the straw is, the harder it becomes to suck anything from it!"

Ironically, I've always seen the fundamentalists as the real blasphemers. You've got the world as it is, and then you've got this book written by man that claims what the world is. And then you've got these fundamentalists denying mountains of evidence and logic for the way the world is and screaming that this man-made tome is the way things work.

Naturally, the argument is that the Bible was originally God's word, but there's no evidence of that, and even if it was, after being copied and recopied under the direction of king's, emperor's and monks with their own agendas, how do we know how much has been changed?

The author of this article, Tim Woods, is a good friend of mine. When you're stuck in Waco Texas writing for the local paper and finishing your masters degree in journalism... it's the articles like this that keep you from ripping your hair out.

Jean Claude Van Damme gives it two shakes and a jiggle!

i am god, you are god, we are all god.

Tommorow's headline- Followup- Pat Robertson to Bill Nye- Burn in hell

\waiting for robertson's prediction of god's wrath coming down on bill and his followers
\\twiddles thumbs, wistles
\\\wont be long

clgrin

Did anyone hear how Bill charted a Russian Sub to help launch a prototype solar-sail satellite into orbit? That man has some pull. Too bad the lost track of the thing.

Just sayin, that wasn't *just* Bill Nye... That was The Planetary Society.

Some of my annual dues helped pay for that, and hopefully we'll be trying again with a better launch platform soon.

/ Bill Nye is a and !

The Ascended Daniel Jackson
Waaaaaaaaahhhh! We can't make unsubstantiated claims about the nature of the universe without criticism anymore. Waaaaaaaaaahhhh!

Explain how the disproof of biblical literalism is unsubstantiated. While you're there, can you bring me one of those cud-chewing rabbits, and a mustard seed smaller than a South American orchid seed? Thanks.

Bill Nye for President.

Dil Doe:

Well, don't forget that the first settlers here who came from repressive Victorian England did so not because they thought the English church and crown were too religious, but because they weren't religious enough. We're a nation founded largely by Puritans, and we've been paying the price ever since.

You're only off by 300 years. But it's a nice theory anyway.

In other news, disgruntled science demonstrator interrupted a baptist church service yelling "I believe in science!" during a reading of genesis and abruptly left the church.

ah yes... another reason to love bill nye the sceince guy!

pussies

Pro Zack

Einstein was not ignoring observed data, he simply didn't believe that an untested prediction of his theory could be true, that's sort of a big difference. And in the past he reversed course when proven wrong, read up on the cosmological constant. Same thing with scientists "pooh poohing" various forms of tribal medicine. As for NeWton I don't really know much about how he derived his various theories.

Man, can anyone tell me what the name of this program is?

Something like Wife Swap? Also details of the episode.

I wanna so much to see the full program.

Seen the clips, and my appetite is whetted!!

Please!! I wanna be Darksided!

"Git outta ma howse"!

He's Bill Nye the SCIENCE guy, not the evangelist guy, dumbasses. Fundamentalism would be funny if it weren't so incredibly dangerous.

tangenti

in other news, disgruntled science demonstrator interrupted a baptist church service yelling "I believe in science!" during a reading of genesis and abruptly left the church.

Oooooh.... Now I know what I'm going to be doing sunday morning!

/ Probably not. Sunday mornings and I don't get along.

It saddens me greatly to know that people, in this day and age, WILLINGLY cram their heads up their own asses.

Evolutionism does not exist - for the universe has simultanious Three God System that abolishes singularity and identicality. Science perpetuates an evil lie - and you will suffer hell for your stupidity.

I know I am dating myself, but Mr. Wizzard was the one I remember making science cool.

Good for them. More seats for people who can think.

/hope the fundies kept walking until the went into the sea.

The only thing I've ever seen Bill Nye on was NUMB3RS. He was cool.

Smarshmallow: The fact is science is very, very often right. No other method of information gathering has ever come close to the success rate of science, which is why every working piece of medicine and technology that you use today exists.

But the Pope has that cool chair!

Why don't any of the people who try to take everything the bible says literally ever remember the verse that says, "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." - 2nd Peter 3:8

I'm not the biggest bible reader or the most devout Christian, but to me that passage says plainly that each day told about in Genesis was not necessarily a 24 hour period. (you nimrods!)

Evolution and Creation can co-exist. The bible never describes exactly how God created man. Except to mention that He created man out of the dust of the earth. (or clay or whatever) It doesn't go through and explain the whole process. Sure, man was created from the dust of the earth. Most likely in the form of some ameoba in a primordial ooze that eventually evolved into something else and so on and so on. Who is to say that God did not have a hand in that process? Who is to say that science didn't just uncover a vague understanding of the methods that God used to create man?

And... now this might just be due to a bad translation somewhere... but why did God say, "let us create man in our image?" How many of Him are there? Who is He talking to? If the wackos are going to take some parts literally then they'd have to take that literally too.

And why are the bible thumpers so concerned about a bare breast when God created man and wife naked and it was only after the snake made them aware of the fact that they were naked that they were ashamed of it and covered up. It's obvious that God does not want us to be ashamed of our natural state. He gets so pissed that he curses the snake to be lower than all other animals and crawl on it's belly and makes childbearing painful for the woman and all that. It's pretty obvious that God doesn't have a problem with nudity. "And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed." - Genesis 2:25

There's not much difference between the Christian religious zealots who misinterpret their Word and the Muslim religious zealots who misinterpret their Word.

'Science' is for foreigners.

Smarshmallow

I'm on your side, dude. :)

The "Waaah!" was for the lady who got up and left. Maybe not written very well, but that was my intention.

The sad part of this is that her kids will get the punishment she deserves.

5uperman: However, your assumption that anyone would know that Bill Nye the Science guy would tell them they should not take their beliefs literally is ludacris!

If your one of your beliefs is that the moon is a giant lightbulb in the sky then, yes, you should expect it.

inTheJungle

Why would one need to eliminate singularities?

Vancouver farker here (well, now in Jersey) ... I LOVED Almost Live!. I used to watch it as a prelude to SNL before it came on. I even got some of the regional jokes because you could substitute Kent for Surrey (or whatever the redneck town was), or the yuppy town for West Vancouver. I loved it when they had the two Canadian dudes steal some NCAA trophy from WA University... they had them wearing hockey jerseys, wearing mullets and saying Eh at the end of every sentence. Other skits I liked: Speedwalker, Billy Kwon, The Lame List. Ah those were the days ;)

Dil Doe: Well, don't forget that the first settlers here who came from repressive Victorian England did so not because they thought the English church and crown were too religious, but because they weren't religious enough. We're a nation founded largely by Puritans, and we've been paying the price ever since.

Specifically, they came here seeking a greater level of repression than was possible under English law at the time.

I hate religion. Thats it, all these stupid bible-thumpers want to do is turn everyone into mindless robots! Kids LOVE discovering and learning about the world! But these farking parents are RUINING these childrens minds with BULLshiat!
ARGGGG I cant stand it anymore!
Stop being threatened by truth, admit you were duped for 2000 years and lets all progress to a better world! Stop decieving children with bullshiat when they ask questions! WE ARE NOT THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE, stupid arrogant Fundies! We are not special! Face the TRUTH! Science is not a conspiracy against religion, RELIGION was devised by TYRANTS to control IDIOTS! How dare you let your hero-tales be usurped by corrupt organizations! Stop letting fear rule your minds!
If the Devil were real, btw, dont you think he would devise something like organized religion to enslave your soul with BS? What better way to undermine humanity than to control them with a book that is supposed to be an infallible truth? All logic is useless against such deception!

/God can suck it, suck it HARD!

Man, Bill Nye is so awesome. I miss that show, does anyone know if it's on DVD? I haven't seen it since like the seventh grade. Remember those songs they'd do at the end? Most neatness. Science is hella cool, so is Bill Nye.

Ant: If your one of your beliefs is that the moon is a giant lightbulb in the sky then, yes, you should expect it.

Don't feed the troll, dude.

nottheman: Funny how you never heard about these crazies until Bush and the GOP took power.

Oh what a steaming mound of fresh, juicy, aromatic, USDA Choice horse shyt! Maybe you never heard about these asshats before the current Commander-in-Chimp was first defeated in 2000, but they've been around since I've been religio-politically aware, which means since at least the Ford Administration. Probably longer than that. (I understand this Copernicus guy had something similar to this happen to him. That was way back even before the Kennedy Dynasty.)