(September 1, 2009 at 2:59 pm)Tiberius Wrote:(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.
And extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Chalk not breaking after being dropped for whatever observable reason is no miracle. If I were god the chalk would shatter as usual and then a strange glow would appear around the bits of broken chalk as they move back together into their original unbroken form. The chalk would then float into the air and hover before the class. A being whose power is greater than the laws of nature as we know them to be must prove that. Believers have such low standards when it comes to demonstrations of omnipotence. Being god must be a really easy job. What does it pay? --- Oh, I think I know the answer to that. A monthly check from the government plus whatever change one can panhandle downtown.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste -- don't pollute it with bullshit.
