Pheobe Debates The Theory of Evolution

Original scene from the show... Friends. ^ | NA | NA

[Mr.Atos]

I was just lisening to Medved debating Creationism with Athiests on the air. I found it interesting that while Medved argued his side quite effectively from the standpoint of faith, his opponents resorted to condescension and beliitled him with statements like, "when it rains, is that God crying?" I was reminded of the best (at least most amusing)debate that I have ever heard on the subject of Creationism vs Evolution, albeit a fictional setting. It occurred on the show, Friends of all places between the characters Pheobe (The Hippy) and Ross (The Paleontologist). It went like this...

Pheebs: Okay...it's very faint, but I can still sense him in the building...GO INTO THE LIGHT MR. HECKLES!!

Ross: Whoa, whoa, whoa. What, uh, you don't believe in evolution? Pheebs: Nah. Not really. Ross: You don't believe in evolution? Pheebs: I don't know. It's just, ya know, monkeys, Darwin, ya know, it's a, it's a nice story. I just think it's a little too easy.

Ross: Uh, excuse me. Evolution is not for you to buy, Phoebe. Evolution is scientific fact. Like, like, the air we breathe, like gravity... Pheebs: Uh, okay, don't get me started on gravity.

Ross: You uh, you don't believe in gravity? Pheebs: Well, it's not so much that ya know, like I don't *believe* in it, ya know. It's just...I don't know. Lately I get the feeling that I'm not so much being pulled down, as I am being pushed.

Ross: How can you NOT BELIEVE in evolution? Pheebs: [shrugs] I unh-huh...Look at this funky shirt!!

Ross: Well, there ya go. Pheebs: Huh. So now, the REAL question is: who put those fossils there, and why...?

Ross: OPPOSABLE THUMBS!! Without evolution, how do YOU explain OPPOSABLE THUMBS?!? Pheebs: Maybe the overlords needed them to steer their spacecrafts!

Pheebs: Uh-oh! Scary Scientist Man!

Pheebs: Okay, Ross? Could you just open your mind like, *this* much?? Okay? Now wasn't there a time when the brightest minds in the world believed that the Earth was flat? And up until what, like, fifty years ago, you all thought the atom was the smallest thing, until you split it open, and this like, whole mess o' crap came out! Now, are you telling me that you are so unbelievably arrogant that you can't admit that there's a teeny, tiny possibility that you could be wrong about this?!?

Pheebs: I can't believe you caved. Ross: What? Pheebs: You just ABANDONED your whole belief system! I mean, before, I didn't agree with you, but at least I respected you. Ross: But uh.. Pheebs: Yeah...how...how are you gonna go in to work tomorrow? How...how are you gonna face the other science guys? How...how are you gonna face yourself? Oh! [Ross runs away dejected] Pheebs: That was fun. So who's hungry?

[Aric2000]

Wow, double checked and sure enough, 3 clicks of the mouse and I was able to look at RWP's COMPLETE resume', or as they say in the colleges, Professional Curriculum Vitae.

Wow, 3 clicks is ALL it took, to get to the fact that he is INDEED an accredited and professional Professor.

Wow, 3 clicks, what a concept.

And somehow ALS just could not bring himself to click the mouse 3 times, I wonder why that is?

[ALS]

well?

I keep hearing about some statements that must come down.

Any of you two gonna post the statements any time this year?

[ALS]

I wonder why YOU and your gang of whackjobs have been playing a game of NOT answering the question?

I wonder....

[Aric2000]

Please see post 611, I already answered your inane and silly question.

You have chosen to ignore the answer.

Not my fault that you choose ignorance.

[ALS]

reality check

"See, that kind of statement ("lying ... pretending") is not helpful. No intent to deceive has been shown on ALS' part in knowing what a CV is or where to find it."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/952079/posts?page=254#254

Resolved last night, and you clowns are playing the old bait n switch, and you know it

[Right Wing Professor]

And somehow ALS just could not bring himself to click the mouse 3 times, I wonder why that is?

I doubt the web site logs go back a month and a half, but I'll know in a few minutes. Anyone know offhand what IP he accesses the web from?

[Lurking Libertarian]

I keep hearing about some statements that must come down.

Not from me. I asked you a question.

[ALS]

"Anyone know offhand what IP he accesses the web from?"

excuse me? Are you talking about MY IP?

[ALS]

Not from you?
What was this then?

Are those statement s still on your website or are they not?

599 posted on 07/28/2003 7:04 PM CDT by Lurking Libertarian

[Right Wing Professor]

Quoted in #592; and of course you saw 592, because you responded to it. Repeating the badgering thing is a bit silly, considering that's part of what you're accused of.

[ALS]

You seem to be so wrapped up in your game you are not only failing to answer any questions, you missed the link in Post #625.

Click it, and start working backwards until you are in sync with the rest of the planet.

One other item:
Don't solicit my IP

[headsonpikes]

EffDot, you should read carefully what VA says in that post you copied.

Don't be so sure that your putative ally, ALS, is really on the same side as you strive to be in the Big Picture.

JMO.

[ALS]

more wedgey womps

getta life

[VadeRetro]

And by the way all his tag team evobots jumped in STILL REFUSING to say YES or NO, it became even more obvious someone must have asked this valid question before.

I believe this is a reference to all of the people who directly linked your CV page on the thread for the doofus. I guess we should have got A-G to come link it for him so he could see it.

[ALS]

I believe it's an admission that there was a complicite game to REFUSE to answer the question.

AND another thing:

The prof's homepage is blank except for a link.
Back then, it had text on it, and that text led one to believe he got his username from the guy in the link.

YOU know it, I know it.

Context is NOT your friend, facts ran away from you a long time ago.

[VadeRetro]

Ladies, if you want to know the nature of what we've been complaining about, and you're dealing with, just check out the past 3 or 4 dozen posts. Or the last 100 if you can stand it. Everything should be clear to you.

But where's the proof, Patrick?

[f.Christian]

Hew to the line and let the chips fall where they may !

[ALS]

btw, you never did say which of these you liked the best

[Right Wing Professor]

Don't solicit my IP

I know your IP address. Several people access the site after I posted the link, but only one of them scanned the directory, and then asked what all the kiddy crap was doing on my site. Thank you, cow and chicken!

[ALS]

hehehe

i only looked at the page, and you are stepping over the guidelines policy.