Bill O'Reilly attributes tides to The Deity, not the moon!

:rofl:

You just can't make this shit up!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/1/5/933554/-Bill-OReilly:-God-causes-the-tides-not-the-moon

O'Reilly is interviewing American Atheists president Dave Silverman, and we get this exchange...



Are the teabaggers in the right-wing base really that stupid? Guess so...

It is very difficult to talk over the man with the biggest bladder-to-brain ratio in the business...

:dunce:

O"Reilly on his own show. I'm sure someone will tell him and he'll be backtracking tonight by claiming to be "mis-quoted".

O'Reilly will not show anything that puts him in a bad light.

In that exchange, they were both lame. Too bad. I'll bet he's kicking himself now. I know I would be.

that guy was as lame as BillO. How can anyone let something like that slide? "Tide goes in. Tide goes out. You can't explain it. "

Gee I can. In terms even BillO can understand.

You see Bill when the moon orbits the earth it is on an ellipse. When the moon gets closer to the earth gravity makes the tide go up. When the moon moves away the tide goes down. Happens twice a day! It's a fucking miracle!

It is not the moon's revolution which is changing throughout the day, it is the spinning of the earth that is doing that.


But obviously that does not happen on The Factor.












Because it is a no-spin zone.

Wait, I guess you do - people are ignorant enough that they actually elected teabaggers into Congress, so yeah, you'd have to explain something that you'd think everyone would have learned in elementary school...

Still, I hope Olbermann lampoons Billo over this on Countdown...

Here's how the game goes...

You don't know where tides come from.

Yes, they come from the gravity of the moon and sun.

But where do the moon and sun come from?

(blah, blah, blah)...

But where did the big bang come from?

Well, nobody knows.

AHA! See.. you don't know!

Basically, the point is to follow a line of "why does X happen" to the point where the answer is "I don't know" and then to declare that to be "God".

The problem with the "god of the gaps" is that every time you learn something, your god gets smaller.

I liked Silverman's answer better - assign the "god of the gaps" to a god in which your questioner does not believe. That's IMHO, more effective, because then the questioner has to explain why EVERY OTHER GOD EXCEPT HIS doesn't exist.

Anyone who believes in a god is an atheist with respect to every other religion but one.

Besides, we always have Olbermann to rebut O'Reilly's ignorance in Worst Persons In The World!

or the gods who were said to live on Mount Olympus (of which Thor wasn't one, of course). So his answer just looks like "your god is no more believable than other peoples' gods were". And the point is that the regularity of the tides has been explained, by science, for hundreds of years - when O'Reilly's Roman Catholic church was keeping Galileo under house arrest for proclaiming that same science.

Do I think O'Reilly would have enough confidence to keep asking "why is that?" and getting solid scientific answers again and again, until finally they got to The Big Bang? No. If he was prepared for that, he would have started with that. But he can't even afford to mention the Big Bang, because half of his idiotic audience thinks the universe is only 6,000 years old, Noah's Ark was real, and a talking snake condemned humanity to lifetimes of suffering for eating a fruit.

Just one bit of "it's the gravity of the Moon and the Sun pulling the water around the Earth's surface, and that's why the periods of tides are linked to the periods of the Moon and the Sun", would be a good, correct answer that shows O'Reilly as ignorant.

Just when you think you've heard everything that you think you could hear from that network, then they go and top themselves.

K&R.

Did he tell the atheist that if the sun shines when it's raining, the devil is beating his wife?

Oh wait, there never was a greater oxymoron than O'Reilly and Romantic. His muse is a loofah.

the Science Guy because he said the moon doesn't emit light; it reflects it. The stupid shits in the audience said the Bible says the moon emits light, so THAT'S what THEY believed.

God, this country is dumb.

We're on a spinning marble affected by the gravity of the moon. Let's see Bill O'Reilly walk across the room holding a tub of water and see if he can do it without seeing the water slosh a bit.

He should've shown everyone how big of an idiot O'Reilly was on his own show*.

*Yes, I know O'Reilly does that very well on his own, but it would've been a lot better if someone else did it.

Bill" would have made him look like the fool he is.

Not some stupid sarcastic comment that was a fail at humor.

It turns out that O'Falafel has a lot more in common with Insane Clown Posse than I originally thought.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/fcking-magnets-how-do-they-work

:rofl:

It didn't just evolve !!!

Yes, crashing a centaur upper stage into the lunar surface could have all manner of spooky tidal effects and effects on the Earth's as well as the Moon's (!) "Biosphere". :rofl:



More proof that Science education has gone way downhill in this country, although O'Reilly is such an old fuck he doesn't even have that as an excuse.

Sometimes this is the only response left: :banghead:

However, The Catholic church only took Galileo's books off their 'banned' list in 1824, so O'Reilly may just be an Old School Catholic.

Or maybe he was having Hephaestus tune up Mjöllnir?

They've both Avengers after all.

That's right, gravity is a scientific scam designed to make us all into atheists. There is no gravity, God is holding everything down.

Tide goes in...tide goes out er what was teh question again? I'm feeling reaallll stupid right now.

He gives me a headache.

how to explain that, other than God?

"I know I'm not the smartest guy in town."

Well said , Falafel Boy! Can we quote you on that?

He's so dumb.

you slept through... serious.

But I must say it, that magical thinking is lovely.

And Mr. Silverman naughty, it is not Zeus... it is Odin... everybody knows that!

:lol: indeed.