Bill O'Reilly to Atheists: You Can't Explain the Tides

[witness23]

I watched this last night and said to myself, "Good grief, this is the last person that should be defending God and Christian beliefs". Then he says this.......

O'reilly:

"You Can't Explain the Tides".

Are you kidding me? That is your defense of Christianity. Both O'reilly and Mr. Silverman have something in common, they are both idiots. Here's the rest of the story<<<shaking my head in disbelief>>>

Oh, for those of you that would like to defend Mr. O'reilly or say I am not looking at the big picture. I already took in consideration O'reilly may have been trying to argue the "design" of the universe, if so, he failed miserably trying to do so. There's no excuse for him to be on the air discussing things that are obviously over his head.

You really need to watch the video.

Link: Bill O'Reilly to Atheists: You Can't Explain the Tides - O'Reilly flubs science in debate with man behind atheist billboards

(Newser) – Apparently, Bill O’Reilly has never heard of the moon. In a debate Tuesday with Dave Silverman, head of the American Atheist group behind this, the Fox host tried to prove the existence of God by citing the unknowable mysteries of the tides. “I’ll tell you why [religion is] not a scam, in my opinion,” he told Silverman. “Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can’t explain that. You can’t explain why the tide goes in.”

Silverman looked stunned. “Tide goes in, tide goes out?” he stuttered. O’Reilly pressed on. “The water, the tide—it comes in and it goes out. It always goes in, then it goes out. … You can’t explain that. You can’t explain it.” Of course, Raw Story points out, people who passed high school science might tell you that tides are caused by the gravitational pull of the moon as it orbits the earth. But Silverman had a better response: “Maybe it’s Thor up on Mount Olympus who’s making the tides go in and out."

 

[layoutshooter]

How come the Great Lakes are not tidal?

 

[cheri1122]

The larger ones [Superior, Michigan, & Erie] do have tides.
I once read of a machine calibrated to measure the tide in a cup of tea - probably just to see if it could.

 

[layoutshooter]

The larger ones [Superior, Michigan, & Erie] do have tides.
I once read of a machine calibrated to measure the tide in a cup of tea - probably just to see if it could.

Seems to be some disagreement on this subject. Many reputable scientists argue both sides of this one. I always thought that they should have small tides, I mean the moon it the moon, but was always taught in school that they were not. I was looking online and found credible people on both sides of the subject. Not that it matters. It would be so small it would not make any difference.


Just on example:

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