Comments on: Roger Ebert slams Ben Stein http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/12/03/roger-ebert-slams-ben-stein/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:36:25 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Buzz Parsec http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/12/03/roger-ebert-slams-ben-stein/comment-page-2/#comment-139637 Buzz Parsec Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:05:46 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/12/03/roger-ebert-slams-ben-stein/#comment-139637 Can we get Mythbusters to test the combustible pants theory? They tested exploding pants once, but I don't think they tried to use lies as an ignition source. Can we get Mythbusters to test the combustible pants theory? They tested exploding pants once, but I don’t think they tried to use lies as an ignition source.

]]> By: StevoR http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/12/03/roger-ebert-slams-ben-stein/comment-page-2/#comment-139436 StevoR Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:49:40 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/12/03/roger-ebert-slams-ben-stein/#comment-139436 Finally got the review to work on my 'puter. Liked it. Nuff said. :-) Finally got the review to work on my ‘puter.

Liked it.

Nuff said. :-)

]]> By: Jim51 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/12/03/roger-ebert-slams-ben-stein/comment-page-2/#comment-139377 Jim51 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:44:11 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/12/03/roger-ebert-slams-ben-stein/#comment-139377 OilisMastery, I was surprised to see you say this... "No. I do not accept any hypothesis until they have been tested and verified by experiment. It’s called the scientific method." What about the God hypothesis? Jim51 OilisMastery,
I was surprised to see you say this…

“No. I do not accept any hypothesis until they have been tested and verified by experiment. It’s called the scientific method.”

What about the God hypothesis?
Jim51

]]> By: StevoR http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/12/03/roger-ebert-slams-ben-stein/comment-page-2/#comment-139330 StevoR Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:53:23 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/12/03/roger-ebert-slams-ben-stein/#comment-139330 Can't get the review to load here .. Sigh. $#@!@ dial up. :-( Was looking forward to an entertaining read .. Can’t get the review to load here .. Sigh. $#@!@ dial up. :-(

Was looking forward to an entertaining read ..

]]> By: BeinSilly http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/12/03/roger-ebert-slams-ben-stein/comment-page-2/#comment-139321 BeinSilly Sun, 07 Dec 2008 12:06:44 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/12/03/roger-ebert-slams-ben-stein/#comment-139321 <b>Larian LeQuella</b> Said : <i> "True Ryan, but we could all hope that the creationists who try to perpetrate this sort of celluloid excrement suddenly find their pants exploding!" </i> Urk! Putting the words "excrement" & "pants exploding" togthere like that creates a <b> very </b> unpleasant mental picture ... Even if "Expelled" was expelled from the backside of a bull with dysentery! ;-) Larian LeQuella Said :

“True Ryan, but we could all hope that the creationists who try to perpetrate this sort of celluloid excrement suddenly find their pants exploding!”

Urk! Putting the words “excrement” & “pants exploding” togthere like that creates a very unpleasant mental picture …

Even if “Expelled” was expelled from the backside of a bull with dysentery! ;-)

]]> By: BeinSilly http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/12/03/roger-ebert-slams-ben-stein/comment-page-2/#comment-139319 BeinSilly Sun, 07 Dec 2008 12:01:35 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/12/03/roger-ebert-slams-ben-stein/#comment-139319 Ben stein? Is that a drink? ;-) 'Stein' is german for well one of those big beer glasses .. :-) 'Ben' (& I kid you not) is Japanese for excrement! ;-) Put them together & you get "excrement drink". Which seems to fit! ;-) Ben stein? Is that a drink? ;-)

‘Stein’ is german for well one of those big beer glasses .. :-)

‘Ben’ (& I kid you not) is Japanese for excrement! ;-)

Put them together & you get “excrement drink”. Which seems to fit! ;-)

]]> By: IVAN3MAN http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/12/03/roger-ebert-slams-ben-stein/comment-page-2/#comment-139302 IVAN3MAN Sun, 07 Dec 2008 07:35:54 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/12/03/roger-ebert-slams-ben-stein/#comment-139302 VOILÀ :cool: VOILÀ :cool:

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