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marfknox
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 08/12/2007 : 09:21:58
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This is neither really religion nor pseudo-science, so I'm just putting it in general skepticism.
http://www.sploid.com/news/2006/04/battling_the_je.php
Nye was in town to participate in McLennan Community College's Distinguished Lecture Series. He gave two lectures on such unfunny and adult topics as global warming, Mars exploration, and energy consumption.
But nothing got people as riled as when he brought up Genesis 1:16, which reads: "God made two great lights -- the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars."
The lesser light, he pointed out, is not a light at all, but only a reflector.
At this point, several people in the audience stormed out in fury. |
A lot of bloggers have been writing about this incident, such as Sploid here, but I do think the infuriated audience members' are being a wee bit mis-characterized. Sploid's first line in this blog entry is: "Bill Nye, the harmless children's edu-tainer known as "The Science Guy," managed to offend a select group of idiot adults in Waco when he suggested that the moon does not emit light." While technically true, he's implying that the audience was angry because they think the moon emits light. In fact, most of the audience members were angry because they interpret that Biblical passage as not requiring that the moon actual emit light itself, but merely that it serves as a light, which it does. They were angry that Nye decided to quote the Bible and then give an example of science debunking a Biblical error.
That said, I think the audience seriously over-reacted, and there is a lot of nutty shit being written by Christian conservatives on this matter, such as that Nye "hates God" and wants to drag everyone else to hell with him.
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"Too much certainty and clarity could lead to cruel intolerance" -Karen Armstrong
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Edited by - marfknox on 08/12/2007 09:30:30
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The Rat
SFN Regular
Canada
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Posted - 08/12/2007 : 18:15:42 [Permalink]
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| Go get 'em Bill! It's a shame that setting people straight is thought of as wrong. |
Bailey's second law; There is no relationship between the three virtues of intelligence, education, and wisdom.
You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church? - The Bishop of Bath and Wells, Blackadder II
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 08/12/2007 : 20:24:55 [Permalink]
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Its TX. What do you expect?
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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recurve boy
Skeptic Friend
Australia
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Posted - 08/26/2007 : 05:30:21 [Permalink]
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While technically true, he's implying that the audience was angry because they think the moon emits light. In fact, most of the audience members were angry because they interpret that Biblical passage as not requiring that the moon actual emit light itself, but merely that it serves as a light, which it does. They were angry that Nye decided to quote the Bible and then give an example of science debunking a Biblical error.
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At the end sploid writes:
| At this point, several people in the audience stormed out in fury. One woman yelled "We believe in God!" and left with three children |
Looks like they got it right? |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 08/26/2007 : 06:21:38 [Permalink]
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Yeh, why else would the Smithsonian keep the moon rocks locked away? The light from them, at close range, is blinding!
| At this point, several people in the audience stormed out in fury. One woman yelled "We believe in God!" and left with three children |
Oh my gawd, they're reproducing! The already murky shallows of the gene pool has become befouled with progressive idjitcy!
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 08/26/2007 : 07:06:33 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
Yeh, why else would the Smithsonian keep the moon rocks locked away? The light from them, at close range, is blinding!
| At this point, several people in the audience stormed out in fury. One woman yelled "We believe in God!" and left with three children |
Oh my gawd, they're reproducing! The already murky shallows of the gene pool has become befouled with progressive idjitcy!
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No, worse yet! They took other people's children.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Ricky
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