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- SquigglyP, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15pretty funny. I wonder how many people will take this seriously. Probably way too many.
- burgerpocket, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14you know the world is seriously ***** when it becomes legitimately difficult to tell the difference between real news and the onion.
- acreman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13This reminds me of an entry from my copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. Q.E.D."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.
OK so if these heat signatures prove God's existence, then wouldn't this prove that he doesn't exist? - tw0bit, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16so we can't explain everything in the universe, lets call this gods doings
- Groovemaster, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12"God will exist after mankind ceases to exist."
When the collective human imagination ceases to exist, all the thousands of gods they made up will also cease to exist.
And I'm sorry to break it to you, but that includes your imaginary friend too. - cdlavalle, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10It was broke. That's why they called it the Dark Ages.
- kargod, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Um guys.... I hate fundamentalists as much as the next guy, but I'm lpretty sure that this is a joke... read the bottom of the story, it says: (paraphrased) The discovery of god will be made a big AFTER the news of the iPhone has cooled over... It's just a joke (I hope... or I'm going to hell)
Anyway, for those of you who can recognize that pattern, it's a Ludo Board (a board game little Indian kids play) - Akaji, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5LoneRanger: I find your serious reply to an obvious joke saddening, as it reflects the current state of mind for most atheists - anything at all that might imply the existence of any deity is obviously constructed by "the fundamentalists" and should be ignored or destroyed.
- Akaji, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Do you hear that whooshing sound, flip? That's the sound of this joke going over your head.
- flip, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7This is a great example of religious nuts using words that they simply do not understand at best,
or deliberately twisting words and meanings for their own sick use.
Does anyone else see the glaring nonthought in this first paragraph?
"Researchers in astrophysics at the University of Palo Alto in California have found substantial evidence of planets and galaxies having been created and are being rearranged intellectually, rather than abide by scientific laws as previously thought, BBC reports."
Do they actually know what "intellectual" means? clearly not. look up the definition. it would mean "reason".. wouldn't that mean that it would follow a structure and "laws" vs some fanciful whim as they're implying?
Gee I sure am glad that they supplied a link for this ground breaking research...
What they're trying to do is use words that give the impression of having been thought over when it's clear that they haven't a clue because the opening statement makes no sense (I just love the use of "creation" btw).
IF anything these bozo's are taking some findings that show that the modern theories and laws of physics need to be updated ... thats nothing new. indeed it's the foundation of science - to discover based upon evidence vs fantasy and "magical impressions".
I swear, If these bozo's want to abide by bonze age myth, then they should be relocated to some isolated land mass and be forced to make do with all the rest of the bronze age tech and medicine as well.
Seems to me that they're taking the benefits from rational people and being complete hypocrites
Let them try to survive an appendicitis on prayer circles and faith healers I say. - pbs1914, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6This report seems to be completely fabricated to me. I go to school at Stanford University, which is in Palo Alto, CA, and I've never heard of a University of Palo Alto in my 4 years here, and Palo Alto is not big enough of a town for a university to just be hiding out in some corner. (I also found nothing about it in a google search.) There is no one with the last name Hilbert on the faculty here at Stanford (you can see the search results for yourself https://stanfordwho.stanford.edu/lookup?search=hilbert&submit=Search ), and a google search with "john hilbert astrophysics" turned up only this article having anything to do about a John Hilbert researching astrophysics. And if that weren't enough, the BBC, where this report was supposedly first released, has nothing in their search results about this discovery either.
It seems to me the author may have even slipped and given away the hoax: he wrote that Dr. Hilbert is "head of research at the astrophysics lab at UA." UA? I thought we were talking about the University of Palo Alto. What happened to the P. No one abbreviates the University of North Carolina UC, or UC-Los Angeles UA or even UCA. - yubpro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4joke's on you.
;] - whateverd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's a joke of course. The author discusses it here: http://hthth.typepad.com/weblog/2007/01/proof_of_god.html
Pretty funny. - benijuana, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3As a longtime resident of Menlo Park (which is pretty much Palo Alto minor), I can safely say that there is no such thing as the university of palo alto. Not even Stanford fits the bill (Stanford is its own municipality). The only college I can think of in Palo Alto is Middle College, where you go to get your GED if you dropped out of high school or recently immigrated.
basically, this story is 100% ***** - pbs1914, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes, Stanford is it's own postal address (Stanford, CA), but it is not it's own true municipality, and most anyone that was writing a story about it would say it is in Palo Alto. It actually has land in six different governmental jurisdictions, one of which is Palo Alto. As soon as you step off campus you are *officially* in Palo Alto, and anyone who goes to Stanford knows the area. So the point is, there is no such school, and no such professor.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+9Assemble a lynch mob. These people are obviously insane fundamentalists.
- NeoRicen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Story seems *****.
"in the process of doing follow up research by scanning planetary surfaces for anything that might resemble a gigantic fingerprint." is a dead giveaway. - titsmagee123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0so do these nutcases specify which god created the planets cause I'm sure if its true and it must be because the great world renowned university of palo whatcha-ma-call-it says it is. they really should tell us if its the christian god or one of the Hindu gods cause i think that this would be a good reason to start a war. ( you know that any reason is a good reason to start a war if your religious it seems) i have done some scientific research of my own and i have decided that it looks like the Hindu god Shiva created the planets with her magical planet creating tentacle my findings are backed up by the "TitsMagee Institute of Learning Stuff" if you would like to dispute my findings please do so
- NeptuneZen, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Hey it worked for thousands of years. If it ain't broke don't fix it.
- benijuana, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Stanford campus isn't PA, although Stanford owns tons of land in Palo Alto (all those ugly apartment complexes on Sand Hill Rd. near the shopping center used to be big beautiful fields where I took my dog when she was a puppy. I grew up only about a quarter mile from there and they used to have rare migratory birds there too in those fields. Now its possibly the most horrid looking multi-story complex).
- buckynekkid, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Doing a Google search on the "University of Palo Alto", yields little results. Best I can tell there is a Stanford campus their and then there's the Mid-Peninsula Free University of Palo Alto, a counterculture institution. I don't know which campus this study came from, but I do know this:
"The findings of the astrophysics lab are monumental and can be expected to have a deep impact on human civilization once the news hit public channels — which are currently overflooded with news about Apple's new iPhone."
The announcement of findings that will change human civilization aren't usually postponed due to the release of a new consumer electronic device. - TheLinux, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Chuck Norris could not be reached for comment.
- neutrino15, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Please dont make your title somthing that is untrue... The true title here is:
"Some scientist claims that god exists"
yeah, him and thousands of other religeous scientists...
I won't put in my personal beliefs, yet whatever you think, this story is from some bootleg website that nobody knows about, AND its only talking about ONE person..... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -12/+2"OK so if these heat signatures prove God's existence, then wouldn't this prove that he doesn't exist?"
It's a false premise about God not being able to exist without faith.
God existed before mankind did, God will exist after mankind ceases to exist. Scientific proof will just make all those without faith look even stupider.
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