Bill O'Reilly vs. Science: O'Reilly's Top 8 Science FAILs

Bill O'Reilly recently spoke with David Silverman, the man who calls himself the President of American Atheists.

O'Reilly: "I'll tell you why [religion is] not a scam, in my opinion," he told Silverman. "Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can't explain that. You can't explain why the tide goes in."

Putting thousands or years of work from astronomers, oceanographers, and scientists to shame, O'Reilly throws his insight into the mix, claiming the existence of God to be proven through the inexplicable nature of the tides of the ocean.

During an interview with Dave Silverman, head of the American Atheist group, O'Reilly managed to simplify the existence of God by surmising, "tide goes in, tide goes out, never a miscommunication" in a calm, Zen-master like fashion; strengthening the credibility of his argument by shedding light on Silverman's inability to explain this remarkable phenomenon that everyone learned in grade school along with the concept of "gravity."

Fast forward to the 1:50 mark to view the far-fetched insight that O'Reilly adds to the discussion, followed by Silverman's utter astonishment at what insanity he has just witnessed escape O'Reilly's mouth.

The greatest part about this statement is that with it... a meme was born, where people on the internet put Mr. O'Reilly into the position of proving God by things that normal people can't explain. For instance:













Source: Bill O'Reilly to Atheists - You Can't Explain the Tides

Source: Reddit

Here was the internet's greatest response:

"Okay, how'd the moon get there? Look, you pinheads who attacked me for this, you guys are just desperate. How'd the moon get there? How'd the sun get there? How'd it get there? Can you explain that to me? How come we have that and Mars doesn't have it? Venus doesn't have it. How come? Why not? How'd it get here? How did that little amoeba get here, crawl out there? How'd it do it?"

Corresponding with his famous remark of "tide goes in, tide goes out," where he showed the world he didn't pay attention in 3rd grade science, O'Reilly addressed his incredible statement with even more how's and why's, because he understands that the best way to justify yourself is to cause even more confusion.

It's kind of like accidentally driving your car into a river and deciding to throw in the homework you didn't finish, as well as your unpaid parking tickets, hoping that nobody will notice.

We can hold to the generous assumption that O'Reilly was simply speaking out of his ass during the taping, but given the amount of time between the interview with Silverman and the taping of this clip, this is the rationale that he managed to come up with?

It kind of drives in the point that we really should just give up, as a society, in trying to correct Bill O'Reilly about anything intellectual.

Bill O'Reilly just does not understand science.

But here's a hilarious video from Cracked.com intermixing little kids learning about something and Bill O'Reilly's misguided logic on where the moon comes from.

Bill O'Reilly Teaches Kids About Science -- powered by Cracked.com

"Look, there are a lot of very brilliant scholars who believe the reason we have incomplete science on evolution is that there is a higher power involved in this and you should consider it as a scientist.

I don't think there's anything wrong with that, Professor. And I think the people like the ACLU, who don't want you to mention it in your biology class, are the Taliban. I think THEY are the ones that are infringing on the rights of all American students by not allowing that to be at least considered."

Launching blame on others is not a foreign tactic to O'Reilly, and as always, he never ceases to disappoint in delivering the wonderment of his opinions, this time by likening the ACLU to the Taliban. Cause there's nothing greater than comparing a human rights organization to the tyrannical leaders of some of America's greatest enemies to make your point that "science" isn't open-minded enough.

No, they are NOT the Taliban. The ACLU, Atheists, and the scientific community in general would love to throw Christian Creationism into the lexicon of the youth as actual "theory."

All anyone would have to do is provide scientific evidence, in the form of the kind of proof we have for the existence of creatures millions of years old, to prove that something that supposedly happened only a few thousand years ago actually went down.

According to O'Reilly's reasoning, the world is turned upside down and America is under the constraint of an internal enemy, the ACLU, because really, what's worse than having the right to a voice?

Teaching Creationism as an alternative to the Theory of Evolution in schools would be like teaching Lord of the Rings as an alternative to ancient history.

"It takes more faith to not believe and to think that this was all luck and [that] all this human body and all the intricacies of it, [are] all luck, than it does to believe in a diety."

Using faith to postulate a justification of the existence of a God once again (which is really quite like using the "I believe in fairies, so they must exist" argument), this time O'Reilly attempts to persuade others into his belief of a higher being by emulating the minimal efforts it takes to actually believe while degrading the extensive and substantial amount of research scientists have put into understanding the universe.

So basically, "it's so much easier to be stubborn than to try and learn anything, and if this many people are stubborn about the same thing you might as well join the party" -- is what he's saying.
It propels people to use their faith for more worthwhile means.

So here's an idea for Mr. O'Relly that really just ties everything together into a nice, neat, little package: If it takes more faith to not believe, why waste faith on believing, when all of it can be channeled towards being doubtful, and eventually, more scientifically sound? Faith is wasted on Gods, cause they have it easy -- it should be given to science.