“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.”
- Bill O'Reilly, disproving Atheism
(Post title from Stephen Colbert's response)
The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence.
Showing posts with label Dunning-Kruger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dunning-Kruger. Show all posts
1.07.2011
2.11.2010
First thing I thought of
Charles Darwin (1871) sagely noted over a century ago, “ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge”
- Inspired by Mind Hacks' article on the Dunning-Kruger effect
- Inspired by Mind Hacks' article on the Dunning-Kruger effect
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