I wouldn’t normally toe-tread a recent thread (particularly not one I posted myself)…. But…. Just… Just…. Wow. Wow. Silverman’s facial expression kind of sums up my reaction.
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F**king moons, how do they work?
This made me laugh, perhaps a little too much.
My Ass! I laffed it off! Oh Noes!
THERE’S NO MISCOMMUNICATION! YOU CAN’T EXPLAIN THAT! HUUUUUURRRRP DDDURRRRP DUUUUURP HUUUURP!
It’s just…boggling.
PZ Myers summed it up nicely on Pharyngula with the title “There must be a god, because I don’t know how things work”.
To be fair that was Colbert’s quote:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/01/there_must_be_a_god_because_i.php
Damn, I wanted to post that.
That Colbert segment is great.
“Mr O’Reilly, this is your high school principle, we want our diploma back”
You missed the word ‘junior’….
Too funny! Tragic in one sense, O’Reilly, stuck with a single oar in the water will have to endure this one for a long while.
Don’t PRETEND that you can explain the MAGIC of God’s MAGICAL TIDES using your SO CALLED SCIENCE. Don’t you know that the MOON is just a THEORY?
Of course it isn’t a theory, we all know it was a conspiracy, and thus qed, the moon landing is also a conspiracy!
David’s face after Bill’s comment is priceless.
Yeah that look really said all that needed to be said.
Had a moment like this earlier today upon reading the words “the earth had been cube-shaped until the year 0″.
Just sat in stunned silence for a moment like Silverman, just silently screaming at my monitor “what the f*ck do you mean tide goes in tide goes out!?” How do you even respond to something at that level?
The genius of what O’reilly did here is that he knew Silverman would react as he did. Now O’reilly can spend the next three weeks rerunning a selectively edited version of this clip and gloating to Laura Ingram.
“Look I gave this guy a chance. I asked him to explain the tide. He couldn’t do it. He couldn’t explain why the tide goes back out. What does that say about these so called athiests and their war on christmas”. His audience will eat it up.
“Had a moment like this earlier today upon reading the words “the earth had been cube-shaped until the year 0″.
To be fair it was probably an allegory that person was making. Although a horrendous one.
Presumably, although I don’t know what that allegory could be.
Also, there was no year 0.
There’s the proof! Jebus never was born! Because there is just the year 1 before and the year 1 after Jesus was born so he can’t have been born at all… :-P
It truely was a poor analogy worthy of Ray Comfort himself … I’ve got eveidence, honest, look here’s this analogy that it takes all of 2 secs to find fault with. Why do you not accept the evidence that I give you, you must be closed minded … oh I will answer your questions but I’m tired now ….. ….. …. can’t I just repeat the same statement again as that surely makes it true … oh that’s a very good point so let me change the subject etc., etc. etc. for 19 bloody pages!
Watching that caused my intellect to run circles confused and in pain…
It ranks up there with the crocoduck and the peanut butter jar.
Ooh, someone needs to make a montage.
You brought it up, get on that!
Unfortunately I has no video editing skillz.
But it’s practically begging to be made into a music video with Bill supplying the lyrics: “Sun goes up, sun goes down. Tide comes in, tide goes out. There’s no miscommunication.”
Autotune!!
The Colbert Report already kindly compiled the clips where he says that, so now it will just take some autotune, fruity loops, and video editing for a youtube sensation.
Don’t forget the banana…
Really, this is dear O’Reilly trying to ease us into when he fully comes out as a Juggalo.
Oh. Oh, my.
O.o *speechless*
I think my blood pressure just rose a bit…
I don’t know which was funnier, “Tide goes in, tide goes out” or Silverman’s gobsmacked expression. To be fair I’m not sure what he expected, going on O’Reilly’s show.
The truly sad bit of all this Is that thousands of people agree with Moron O’Reilly. If they can’t explain something it’s “God did it”
What an amazing lack of so much. I knew O’Reilly was an idiot and he has now confirmed that again.
I agree O’Reilly’s ridiculous spew defies comment, but this comes close, I think: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtNHuqHWefU&hd=1
And we wonder why American children can’t pass a science test.
someone want to put this picture up for me? I don’t know how.
http://i.imgur.com/W8CeX.jpg
Put it up where?
If you want it on the blog, just email DF, but it isn’t the kind of thing I would expect him to put up (but you never know).
But it is pretty good.
Crap that reminds me I haven’t checked my email in weeks!
*chuckle*
Saved for later use.
Please enlighten me. How can two events (tide goes in, tide goes out) or (Sun comes up, Sun goes down) have ANY communication let alone a miscommunication? That just makes no sense.
he’s imagining a little angel pulling a lever from the mark that says “tide in” to the mark that says “tide out” on God’s orders, and God always gives the order clearly and punctually.
I think the idea is that in a universe without God, there could be no order, and no consistency in the laws of physics. Things would just happen randomly. I don’t know why he would think that, though, nor do I know why he is so fucking terrible at getting his point across.
LOL! He does realize that the earth’s rotation is slowing down and that the moon is receeding from us, right?
No, I guess not.
Hey, Bill!!! We’re heading toward being tidally locked… except that the sun will likely mature into a red giant and destroy the earth before that happens.
Learn some frakkin’ science.
No, see, none of that will happen because the world is bound to end pretty sound.
Wow you gotta stay in awe before this massive display of dumbness.
Bill O’Reilly uses to call other people ‘pinheads’ in his interviews, right?
Bad thing is though, that the shocked Silverman was – he wasn’t able to give the answer. He said he didn’t know. I so wish he had rubbed the correct answer into O’Reilly’s Face. But as it went – aside from Bill’s Ignorance, Silverman didn’t shine either.