Bill Nye Boo'd In Texas For Saying The Moon Reflects The Sun
Fucking reflected light -- how does it work?
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.
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and re-hash is with onion 
and it outraged me seeing it 59 years later
“Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it”
-George Santayana
Religion is usually helpful for believing your own bullshit.
At a guess, it's just such a window into how thin the veneer the Enlightenment really is. Scratch the surface, and Carl Sagan's demon haunted world is alive and well.
I mean, we aren't talking about new science like cosmology, or computational biology. This is old, old news. But if you force people to observe that their Bible is in conflict with it, their heads immediately explode.
He kind of fucked up though, made the sun so hot not even a god can get near it
Kind of got away from him like a runaway diesel 
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God is shining a flashlight on it ?
If he brought it up, out of the blue, I can see why he got that sort of reaction. I would conclude, in fact, that he was TRYING to get that sort of reaction. And in that sense, I think it was kinda poor judgement, esp. given where he was. Could've made his point (whatever that was) w/o being EXPLICIT in bringing up that Bible was totally in error.
I'm assuming of course that the topic of the lecture wasn't "ways in which the Bible is proven erroneous by Science" ... in which case, it was wholly appropriate, and the people who were upset brought it on themselves.
Now that all that ^^^ is out of the way ... what a bunch of dumb-asses!
But I managed to escape before he finished!"
When asked to comment on Bill Nye's lunar talk Newt replied: "He had better be wrong. My moon colon...colony is to be powered by the same power source that lights it up at night. Once we get up there I'm sure we'll find the coal power plant God installed 6000yrs ago. Also, Callista refuses to have any of those ugly NASA sun thingies in our colon...I mean colony"
"Yup. We oughtta burn that boy at the stake."
....it might as well be tensor calculus....! 
That explains it. Were the members of his audience standing upright or dragging their knuckles on the ground?
and there is a man's face on it....
http://dom.net/word/2005/07/moon-cheese.html
Thereby guaranteeing some in the crowd would be offended, by what they have no idea. Just some smart guy trying to prove the Bible WRONG! STONE HIM!!!!
others. 
Bill Nye: "You see, the moon only reflects the light from the sun."
Voices from audience: "Communist!" "I believe in God. I don't know what you believe in , buster." "Mr. Science Guy, my eye. More like Herr Nazi Joseph Stalin!" "The science of liberal losers!" "We've got nothing to learn from this Bozo!" "He's Marx without the beard!" "Maybe he's got a bomb." etc., etc., etc.
I think it's relevant even if it is old. There's a serious cancer here on DU that seems to detest any point of fact or scientific evidence. It's detested and put down immediately no matter the relevance. Seems the scientific method has gone extinct along with the dinosaurs (or Republican reasoning).
Take Care.
-p
"Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” Isaac Asimov
By the way, I encountered exactly the same response from a Sunday school teacher at my Grandma's fundamentalist church - the one she tried to raise me in. See why I escaped?
Until the Latinos take over and transform the state.
In 10 years, the old, white dead wood will be swept aside.
just look at his face! Those eyebrows! And the costume (bow tie) is meant to fool us!
