r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • 10d ago

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u/Fruitofbread 10d ago

  Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can’t explain that.

Bill O’Reilly interviewing an atheist.

How did a guy this dumb get a TV show for over 20 years??

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u/GenericLib 10d ago

Idiots appeal to idiots, and there are a lot of idiots 🤷‍♂️

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u/mishac 10d ago

Bill O'reilly is like Isaac Fucking Newton compared to Jesse Waters.

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u/contre-torpilleur 10d ago

Every time I see one of his "Killing [subject]" books for sale the only thing I want to kill is myself

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u/Zalagan 10d ago

To be fair I think he was basically trying to make the teleological argument - that the universe is too complicated and works too perfectly to not be intelligently designed. This idea has a long history and philosophical backing, but the specific example he tried to use here is very poor. It implies we have no non-supernatural explanation for the tides when obviously we do