October 2010 Screwballs

[Rational Gaze]

I dare you to watch this and not even snigger.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxB1gB6K-2A

Catherine Tate as Lauren Cooper, and David Tennant as....well, you''ll see.

Catherine Tate isn't funny.

[LilPunkishOfTerror]

[Rational Gaze]

Cahterine Tate is one of the unfunniest comedians alive. The only funny sketch of hers I have ever seen, was one set at a private school during the school sports day. One of the children drops their egg during the egg & spoon race, and one of the parents notices that it is a tesco value egg, and then all the parents quickly round up all their children, run into their cars screaming and drive away.

[LilPunkishOfTerror]

Yeah, that was funny! RUN! THEY'RE NOT ORGANIC!!! lol.

edit: it's part of this compilation - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUNssEtAwr8

[Rational Gaze]

Can somebody link me to where Loftus made fun of ApologiaPhoenix after their debate? Also, JP would you, or someone else, consider compiling all of Loftus', Avalos' and Carrier's worst cases of dishonesty in a single location?

[Challenger Grim]

Can somebody link me to where Loftus made fun of ApologiaPhoenix after their debate? Also, JP would you, or someone else, consider compiling all of Loftus', Avalos' and Carrier's worst cases of dishonesty in a single location?

Seconded. I know we're all fans of the high context society around here, but with the sheer information overload of the internet, it's really hard to get caught up on all the backstory.

[wildrow12]

Anti-Screwball to William Craig for pointing out how bonkers some of the pronouncements Hawking made in his latest book are:

http://www.reasonablefaith.org/site/...gename=q_and_a

Mlodinow and Hawking, not content with ontological pluralism, really go off the deep end when they assert, “There is no model-independent test of reality. It follows that a well-constructed model creates a reality of its own” (p. 172). This is an assertion of ontological relativity, the view that reality itself is different for persons having different models. If you are Fred Hoyle, the universe really has existed eternally in a steady state; but if you are Stephen Hawking the universe really began with a big bang. If you are the ancient physician Galen blood really does not circulate through the human body, but if you are William Harvey, it does! Such a view seems crazy and is made only more so by Mlodinow and Hawking’s claim that the model itself is responsible for creating its respective reality. It hardly needs to be said that no such conclusion follows from there being no model-independent test of the way the world is.

Whatever verdict we make on their arguments, the point is that despite their claim to speak as scientific torchbearers of knowledge, what Hawking and Mlodinow are engaged in is philosophy. The most important conclusions drawn in their book are philosophical, not scientific. Why, then, do they pronounce philosophy dead and claim as scientists to be bearing the torch of discovery? Simply because that enables them to cloak their amateurish philosophizing with the mantle of scientific authority and so avoid the hard work of actually arguing for, rather than merely asserting, their philosophical viewpoints.

[Rational Gaze]

Seconded. I know we're all fans of the high context society around here, but with the sheer information overload of the internet, it's really hard to get caught up on all the backstory.

Also, hard evidence for the John Loftusists that their Messiah is a fraud.

[Rational Gaze]

Catherine Tate isn't funny.

Harry Enfield is much funnier:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWdABb2zooA

[Rayado]

Screwball for this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

[ApologiaPhoenix]

Can somebody link me to where Loftus made fun of ApologiaPhoenix after their debate? Also, JP would you, or someone else, consider compiling all of Loftus', Avalos' and Carrier's worst cases of dishonesty in a single location?

http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/sh...t=89776&page=8

[jpholding]

Also, JP would you, or someone else, consider compiling all of Loftus', Avalos' and Carrier's worst cases of dishonesty in a single location?

I have that for Loftus on Tekton....I'd need time (read: $) to do more.

[Manwë Súlimo]

So I was listening to William Lane Craig's "Defenders" podcast whilst playing a video game (because I'm awesome like that) and the half of my mind that wasn't infatuated with killing baddies notified me that WLC was talking about a former student by the name of John who deconverted and had an adulterous affair and so on and how his deconversion seemed to him to be purely emotional. I wonder if he was talking about Loftus.

[ApologiaPhoenix]

So I was listening to William Lane Craig's "Defenders" podcast whilst playing a video game (because I'm awesome like that) and the half of my mind that wasn't infatuated with killing baddies notified me that WLC was talking about a former student by the name of John who reconverted and had an adulterous affair and so on and how his deconversion seemed to him to be purely emotional. I wonder if he was talking about Loftus.

Who else?

[Manwë Súlimo]

Who else?

Who else, what? Is your programming faulty again?