(August 31, 2009 at 6:41 pm)Godlesspanther Wrote: Fuck me too -- I did the same. Then looked at the comments. Illiterate ignorant Jesus freaks going on about what an awesome story it is and how it really gets them "thinking." Where's my fucking barf bag?Plus, the argument that God doesn't exist because he doesn't stop pieces of chalk from breaking only tells us that God (if he exists) really doesn't care about some atheist professor trying to disprove him.
This one has been on Snopes for years. It predates the internet with plenty of room to spare. Snopes cites a reader hearing in back in '68 and and a book reference from '77.
Your nephew claims it happened "a few years ago." It's obvious that it never happened. I love the portrayal of the atheist professor demanding that any believer "stand up." Such professors could only exist in in a paranoid fundie fantasy.
That, and one occurrence of chalk not breaking does nothing to prove anything. Science is meant to be repeatable, so the professor should have just picked up the chalk and dropped it again and again.
