Comments on: My Television Is Attacking Ben Stein!!!! https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/05/02/my-television-is-attacking-ben/ Sat, 03 May 2008 23:30:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Skemono https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/05/02/my-television-is-attacking-ben/#comment-7587 Sat, 03 May 2008 23:30:37 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/05/02/my-television-is-attacking-ben/#comment-7587

Would be interesting to see how Sherlock Holmes would have addressed the (ill)logical position of ID.

Hm. Given that Doyle was one of the die-hard believers in the Cottingley fairies hoax, I’m not so confident that Doyle would write Holmes as dismissing ID.

]]> By: Jonathan Vos Post https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/05/02/my-television-is-attacking-ben/#comment-7586 Sat, 03 May 2008 20:32:51 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/05/02/my-television-is-attacking-ben/#comment-7586 “Would be interesting to see how Sherlock Holmes would have addressed the (ill)logical position of ID.” I suspect that it would be funny, but not quite what you expect. My evidence follows.”His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing. Upon my quoting Thomas Carlyle, he inquired in the naivest way who he might be and what he had done. My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System. That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it.”Watson, describing Holmes in “A Study in Scarlet”

]]> By: gbusch https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/05/02/my-television-is-attacking-ben/#comment-7585 Sat, 03 May 2008 18:06:22 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/05/02/my-television-is-attacking-ben/#comment-7585 Caught House the other day and was pleasantly surprised by the slight comment in passing. I was kind of hoping it would be the main theme of the episode but no such luck. Would be interesting to see how Sherlock Holmes would have addressed the (ill)logical position of ID.

]]> By: decrepitoldfool https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/05/02/my-television-is-attacking-ben/#comment-7584 Sat, 03 May 2008 11:25:01 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/05/02/my-television-is-attacking-ben/#comment-7584 The attack on Stein was thinly veiled? I thought it couldn’t have been clearer if they’d turned toward the camera and said; “Yeah, we’re talkin’ to you, Ben Stein!”Which is to say, I loved it. Numb3rs is a schmaltzy show but it’s a voice in favor of reason and rationality. As is House.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/05/02/my-television-is-attacking-ben/#comment-7583 Sat, 03 May 2008 11:07:04 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/05/02/my-television-is-attacking-ben/#comment-7583 Kurt: Right, I forgot to mention that!

]]> By: Kurt https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/05/02/my-television-is-attacking-ben/#comment-7582 Sat, 03 May 2008 10:41:16 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/05/02/my-television-is-attacking-ben/#comment-7582 Also, Ben Stein was runner-up “worst person in the world” on Keith Olbermann the other night.

]]> By: Aerik https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/05/02/my-television-is-attacking-ben/#comment-7581 Sat, 03 May 2008 02:25:25 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/05/02/my-television-is-attacking-ben/#comment-7581 I… ugh… better watch…

]]> By: Stephanie Z https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/05/02/my-television-is-attacking-ben/#comment-7580 Sat, 03 May 2008 00:50:18 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/05/02/my-television-is-attacking-ben/#comment-7580 They’re new? They’re pointed? [whimper] I have to wait until the rest of the household can also watch. I love having a DVR, but sometimes delaying gratification just isn’t that…gratifying.

]]> By: Hermagoras https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/05/02/my-television-is-attacking-ben/#comment-7579 Sat, 03 May 2008 00:41:01 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/05/02/my-television-is-attacking-ben/#comment-7579 I saw that on Numb3rs tonight. I loved when Larry was told to choose between “Hitler’s science” and a cult. But I missed House. What was the attack?Good on them.

]]> By: Steve https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/05/02/my-television-is-attacking-ben/#comment-7578 Sat, 03 May 2008 00:28:29 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/05/02/my-television-is-attacking-ben/#comment-7578 Just watched Numb3rs – great stuff, I thought. “How else would a God reveal himself but through his creation?” Heeh.

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