Bill Nye "The Science Guy" booed

http://www.thinkatheist.com/profiles/blogs/bill-nye-bood-in-texas-for

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Bill Nye, the harmless children's edu-tainer known as "The Science Guy," managed to offend a select group of adults in Waco, Texas at a presentation, when he suggested that the moon does not emit light, but instead reflects the light of the sun.

 

As even most elementary-school graduates know, the moon reflects the light of the sun but produces no light of its own.

 

But don't tell that to the good people of Waco, who were "visibly angered by what some perceived as irreverence," according to the Waco Tribune.

 

Nye was in town to participate in McLennan Community College's Distinguished Lecture Series. He gave two lectures on such unfunny and adult topics as global warming, Mars exploration, and energy consumption.

 

But nothing got people as riled as when he brought up Genesis 1:16, which reads: "God made two great lights -- the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars."

 

The lesser light, he pointed out, is not a light at all, but only a reflector.

 

At this point, several people in the audience stormed out in fury. One woman yelled "We believe in God!" and left with three children, thus ensuring that people across America would read about the incident and conclude that Waco is as nutty as they'd always suspected.

 

This story originally appeared in the Waco Tribune, but the newspaper has mysteriously pulled its story from the online version, presumably to avoid further embarrassment.

 

http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/news/stories/2006/04/06/04062006wacbillnye.html

so they were offended at his preaching atheism. big woop.

Bill Nye fucking wails.

sry im not up to date on the whole metal thing. does wail mean good or bad?

  On 4/28/2011 at 6:33 PM, MAXIMUS MISCHIEF said:

so they were offended at his preaching atheism. big woop.

not atheism. science. rationality.

also, this

it's hard to be sure what some of the bible means, i don't think it's good to argue over it

  On 4/28/2011 at 6:39 PM, essines said:

Bill Nye fucking wails.

Bill Nye does indeed fucking wail. He owns a condo downtown here in Seattle (or at least, he did a few years ago). A buddy of mine was contracted to do some tile work at his place, and apparently he has math and physics equations tiled all over his shower walls. That is pure nerdy badassery. I greatly enjoy telling that story.

As for the woman who screamed that she believes in God, "In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all."

- Alan Watts

  On 4/28/2011 at 6:57 PM, luke viia said:

As for the woman who screamed that she believes in God, "In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all."

- Alan Watts

i guess that makes sense... it's a bit extremist though imo... no other person knows what kind of faith you have except you... but it's not good to cling

tide goes in, tide goes out, i don't understand it, but it happens.....

  On 4/28/2011 at 7:12 PM, yek said:

tide goes in, tide goes out, i don't understand it, but it happens.....

lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xjOQYtgsiw