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  • sleeper
    I Wear Pants;1132125 wrote: Young earth creations scientists are practicing bad science because they start with an assumption. Real scientists do not. And young earth creationists cannot be persuaded by evidence that their hypothesis about the creation of the earth is wrong so really they aren't scientists at all.
    Neither is jmog.
  • I Wear Pants
    sleeper;1132140 wrote:Neither is jmog.
    To be fair nor am I.
  • gut
    I Wear Pants;1132091 wrote:If you don't consider Maher an actual comedian then you have to throw out the arguments that Rush is just being funny or ridiculous seeing as he actually isn't a comedian and never has been. Can't have it both ways.
    Not being a comedian does not prevent one from making jokes. Not a difficult concept to grasp. Maher's show is nothing like Colbert and is, in fact, 50 minutes of the same shtick Rush and the others do it's just book-ended by 5 minutes of stand-up.

    And conservatives did go start their own network. It's called Fox News.
  • gut
    I Wear Pants;1132125 wrote:Young earth creations scientists are practicing bad science because they start with an assumption. Real scientists do not.
    Umm, guess you were asleep when they taught the scientific method in the 3rd grade, huh?
  • I Wear Pants
    gut;1132190 wrote:Umm, guess you were asleep when they taught the scientific method in the 3rd grade, huh?
    Assumption does not = hypothesis.

    But even if it did my point still stands. Young earth creationists will never, ever be swayed by evidence saying they are wrong. That makes them in fact not scientists. Because even Dawkins, if shown verifiable, repeatable proof of God would change his mind and say that there is a God. Not so with many, perhaps most, theists. They have faith even in the face of mounting evidence against their beliefs (anti-evolution for example) and to quote Nietzsche "Faith means not wanting to know what is true".
    gut;1132184 wrote:Not being a comedian does not prevent one from making jokes. Not a difficult concept to grasp. Maher's show is nothing like Colbert and is, in fact, 50 minutes of the same shtick Rush and the others do it's just book-ended by 5 minutes of stand-up.

    And conservatives did go start their own network. It's called Fox News    .
    Ok so the free market thing to do would be to stop crying about the MSM and make your network more popular.
  • jmog
    I Wear Pants;1132125 wrote:There is no evidence supporting the notion that the earth is 6,000 years old or whatever it is. None. The earth is old as ****, accept it.


    Young earth creations scientists are practicing bad science because they start with an assumption. Real scientists do not. And young earth creationists cannot be persuaded by evidence that their hypothesis about the creation of the earth is wrong so really they aren't scientists at all.
    You know absolutely nothing about science if you believe "real scientists" don't start with assumptions.

    You do know there are plenty of PhD'd geologists, astrophysicists, biologists, etc that believe in a young earth correct? So, just because of their belief you, the great IWP, declares they are not scientists?
  • jmog
    sleeper;1132140 wrote:Neither is jmog.
    My 3 scientific degrees and multiple publications in research science journals begs to differ.
  • jmog
    I Wear Pants;1132195 wrote:Assumption does not = hypothesis.

    But even if it did my point still stands. Young earth creationists will never, ever be swayed by evidence saying they are wrong. That makes them in fact not scientists. Because even Dawkins, if shown verifiable, repeatable proof of God would change his mind and say that there is a God. Not so with many, perhaps most, theists. They have faith even in the face of mounting evidence against their beliefs (anti-evolution for example) and to quote Nietzsche "Faith means not wanting to know what is true".
    Ok so the free market thing to do would be to stop crying about the MSM and make your network more popular.
    Please show the proof of billions of years that has been shown to the young earth creation PhD scientists that they have rejected.

    As to your 2nd point, Fox News already is more popular than any of the other news channels and it isn't even close.
  • dwccrew
    I Wear Pants;1132174 wrote:To be fair nor am I.
    Well, I am and I stayed in a Holiday Inn last night. So, that's double awesome.
  • gut
    I Wear Pants;1132195 wrote:Assumption does not = hypothesis.
    LMAO at your semantic backpedal. A hypothesis is nothing more than an assumption that can be tested. Not all assumptions are a hypothesis, but all hypotheses ARE assumptions until proven otherwise (and, technically, often never proven one way or the other but merely ASSUMED true with a given level of confidence).
  • gut
    I Wear Pants;1132195 wrote: Ok so the free market thing to do would be to stop crying about the MSM and make your network more popular.
    #1 for over a decade and more viewers than CNN and MSNBC...combined. So I think they are doing just fine, but then you've never been one to let facts get in the way of your misguided arguments.

    http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/category/cable-news/

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/29/cable-news-ratings-top-30-february_n_1310969.html
    "Like clockwork, Fox News cleared the top of the list. The network, which celebrated ten years in first place, claimed the top twelve programs in total viewers. "
  • tcarrier32
    I Wear Pants;1132125 wrote:There is no evidence supporting the notion that the earth is 6,000 years old or whatever it is. None. The earth is old as shit, accept it.

    And they're laughed at not because they believe in a creator but because for thousands of years they've been consistently wrong about science and punished and killed those who thought differently only to later accept the truths uncovered. Rotation of the planets, earth not being the center of the universe, the world not being flat, evolution, etc. If theists would stop fighting scientific progress and the intellectual growth of our species there would be no perceived mockery because it wouldn't be necessary.

    Young earth creations scientists are practicing bad science because they start with an assumption. Real scientists do not. And young earth creationists cannot be persuaded by evidence that their hypothesis about the creation of the earth is wrong so really they aren't scientists at all.
    i face-palm hard at arguments for a young earth.

    even the theistic geology professors at my university face-palm to this suggestion.
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    What a joke we have become.
  • Heretic
    gut;1132229 wrote:#1 for over a decade and more viewers than CNN and MSNBC...combined. So I think they are doing just fine, but then you've never been one to let facts get in the way of your misguided arguments.

    http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/category/cable-news/

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/29/cable-news-ratings-top-30-february_n_1310969.html
    "Like clockwork, Fox News cleared the top of the list. The network, which celebrated ten years in first place, claimed the top twelve programs in total viewers. "
    Ah, so the Conservative creed must be to simultaneously brag about being represented by (easily) the most successful news station, while complaining bitterly about those less-successful ones that are more Liberal.

    But that's the entertainment of politics on this site for me. Laughing at all the silly, overly-partisan people who constantly blast people on one side of the aisle while ignoring how their side is no less guilty of anything.
  • bigdaddy2003
    Yeah, but what about the Sunday shows on NBC, ABC, and CBS? I have friends who watch those and say to me "well Obama is trying to fix the country but the Republicans won't let him." There is definitely an overall liberal bias in the news world. Just because Fox is the most successful station on cable doesn't mean there isn't.
  • Heretic
    I'd agree there is some sort of overall bias towards the left. As in it's not a perfect utopian 50/50. I'd disagree that it's anything near where the "whiny bitch" demographic puts it due to simple personal biases due to being over-partisan.

    I read right-wing people here complaining constantly because other than Fox, everyone is on the left. I have a friend who's as left as they are right who thinks MSNBC is the best choice because they're the only one who "gets it". I think both him and the people here are operating under flawed arguments because their partisan nature makes them look at any opinion or viewpoint opposing theirs as flawed and wrong...and therefore, to them, it's a bias or "media conspiracy" to broadcast those views as viable or correct.

    I'd imagine the actual truth as far as the media to be a lot more centrist than hardcore Rs or Ds would ever admit. But anyone actually admitting their personal biases might be clouding their judgment on this would possibly eliminate a "we're soooo persecuted!!!" battlecry, so that ain't happening.