h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Yeah but he had an ear for the ladies.

~jwf~

That was Johnny Logan, wasn't it?

What's another ear?...


I 'eard that. Pardon?

I'm surprised Christopher hasn't posted this already:

http://www.b3ta.com/challenge/modernbible/popular/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc&feature=player_embedded

Carl sagan ... sings (w/ Stephen Hawking)



Seriously.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/8275328.stm

"Eight children have been taken to hospital after a car ploughed into a group of nine-year-olds in Suffolk.

The 20-strong group were pupils from Worlingham Middle School taking part in a walk round the local area.

Two of the victims were airlifted to hospital from the crash scene near All Saints Church in Lowestoft Road."

"A 21-year-old man, who was on his way to the funeral of a friend killed in a car accident, was also hurt."

Someone's god has a sick sense of humour.

>> Carl sagan ... sings (w/ Stephen Hawking) <<

That's kinda cool actually.
The sum definitely being greater than all the bits put into it.

~jwf~

Bah, he's using a pitch-shifter. I can't stand these talentless boy-bands.

Gif

Why do cars always *plough* into groups of people?

Can't they find some other agricultural implement to replace this cliché?

RF

Well, sometimes they are also mowed down.

Perhaps, given His lack of activity of late, we could repatriate the verbs to "smite" to "smote" ?

Hi Clive;
Maybe a phrase involving a scythe?

Funny Aussie AIDS ad, circa 1987, featuring Grim Reaper

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U219eUIZ7Qo

Speaking of zombies

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xa3gvd_the-imaginarium-of-doctor-parnassus_shortfilms

And Dawkins is gonna be on the Stephen Colbert show tonight.

Richard Dawkins on The Colbert Report.

Both of them really enjoying the interview. Dawkins is one of the people who understands Colberts character and just goes with it and does a not bad job of sparring with him.

Hopefully, the people who think Dawkins is a humourless, aggressive spoil-sport will see it as he's laughing all the way through at the 'joke'.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/10/in_case_you_missed_it_dawkins.php

As Jerry Coyne predicted on his blog, the creationist response to even yet more evidence for evolution and common ancestry would be flat out denial

http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/welcome-to-ardi-a-new-member-of-our-family/

If you fancy a giggle - check out the rapture ready thread discussing this recent announcement of (yet another) intermediary fossil demonstrating the evolution of hominids, which may or may not be an ancestor of humans but is (probably) another cousin species which had evolved similarly (bipediality etc)

http://www.rr-bb.com/showthread.php?t=110943

Has some gems in it.

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Pen,

Maybe the problem your having is that you're trying to fit God into what you know about "science". Maybe that's the wrong way. Maybe instead you should try to fit science into what you know about God.

Don't start from the proposition that everything you learned in science class was correct, and then try to make God fit into that picture. Instead, start from the position that everything in the bible is true, and then try to see how science fits in with that. If it doesn't fit, it's the current world's view that's wrong, not the bible.
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It must take a special kind of stupid to stand on your head and spout nonsense.

It's quite hard to accept that they don't see anything wrong with their ""logic"" (one set of quote/unquote wasn't enough for that one!). It saddens me in a way. In some other way it makes me feel strangely

They are yanks who really have no excuse due to the US being 'gods country' etc.

A friend of mine who was born and grew up in (legally secular) France to British parents(Christians) went a bit postal on me a while ago when I mention evolution. (she's a degree level engineer). She said to me that evolution is a poor theory as it explains how and why but not who....i.e. because she has had 'god exists' battered into her since she popped out of the womb then it is 'fact' that yahweh exists and hence the theory of evolution can't be totally correct because it doesn't have god in it. When I asked 'So who created god?' she said don't be stupid.

When I asked her why out of the 2800 recorded deities that people have believed in over the years her's was the real one? she replied: Don't be stupid!

She then said Jesus did exist because there were letters written about him (um, over 60years after he supposedly existed) and also the walls of Jericho have been showed that they couldn't have been knocked down by humans...i.e. the horns of angels must have done it like it says in the Bibble.

I had no answer to this but 30seconds on the interweb showed me that a) there's been loads of walls around Jericho and b) it sits on the Dead Sea Fault line...oh, so could the walls have been knocked down by an earthquake...which people at that time would have had no explanation and hence 'horns of angels' is a nice story to explain it.

Shame she's a Christian as we'd probably be married by now...

Hi 3D,

>She then said Jesus did exist because there were letters written about him (um, over 60years after he supposedly existed)

He probably did. So what? Textual evidence for his miracles get sketchier the further back you go (generalising hugely).

>walls of Jericho have been showed that they couldn't have been knocked down by humans

Copypock. Jericho had several sets of walls, all destroyed in (very human) invasions. At the time the Bible tells us Joshua was destroying them, Jericho was uninhabited (as near as we can tell) and had no walls. The Egyptians had destroyed them centuries before, and they wouldn't be rebuilt until the Egyptians left, several centuries later.

Gif

I've been waiting ages to post this one:
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Now you know everything you need to about the Bible

Gif

>> Now you know everything you need to about the Bible. <<

Well maybe, maybe not.

I've actually been waiting for you to complete the set
so I can have a go all at once.

But without looking just yet I wonder if you've covered
'Thy rod and Thy staff, they comfort me'.

I always found that line (from Psalm 23) a bit confuddling.
The homoerotic symbolism of rods and staffs notwithstanding
(along with all that lying down in green pastures stuff) I cannot
understand why God would have one of each.

Is it a macho 'two-gun-kid' kinda thing?
Is a rod not just a short staff?
Or were they separate and different tools for shepherding?

Inquiring minds wanna know!

~jwf~