The video that is making the viral rounds now with Bill O'Reilly and David Silverman, president of the American Atheist Group is getting a lot of play because both of these loudmouths can't seem to understand that the tides are caused by the gravitational effects of the moon (that is a very short version. My problem with the whole thing is this:
First, Bill O'Reilly as a spokesman and apologist for religion is like having Soupy Sales as the defender of genteel humor. He is not anyone who I would want defending my faith, and as a Christian I find him annoying and pretty much an example of how NOT to be a Christian.
Second, Silverman is an equally incompetent spokesperson for any kind of rational atheism. If he can't even defend the "tides" statement, he needs to find someone who can. Additionally, he like many who profess atheism seem to thing science negates religion. Science only negates those who profess biblical literalism, and that is a straw-man argument.
If you can stand almost 10 minutes of blathering ignorance on both sides, watch the clip below.
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