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?

[ALS]

nice try to deceive the lurkers, but they can just scoot backwards a few pages and see where you ADMITTED to getting a thread pulled.

You would think by now that after all the eyewitnesses, your clowns would drop the subject alltogether, but noooooooooooo, you just have to repeat the lies, hoping upon hope just one lurker stepped in here and doesn't have a clue

you insult FReepers like dems insult their constituents.

[ALS]

None

None was what you had yesterday in another thread when you were asked to prove your case

NONE

it's none because there is none

see ya after all this blows over, as usual

[headsonpikes]

And just what connection does 'christian(sic) bashing' have to do with admonishing a sulpherous little imp such as yourself?

;^)

[js1138]

From the other thread, which featured AndrewC doing quite well for most of the day:

To: Aric2000

morons in a box

HAHAHAHA

3,406 posted on 07/28/2003 3:28 PM PDT by ALS (http://designeduniverse.com Featuring original works by FR's finest . contact me to add yours!)

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To: Aric2000

you monkey spanks have been holed up back in this thread.

[ALS]

To: general_re

Why would you call any FReeper a "Liar for Christ"?
post the lie
346 posted on 07/27/2003 12:13 PM CDT by ALS
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/952086/posts?page=346#346

To: ALS
No thanks - I'll be happy to verify my claims privately to anyone else who asks, but I have no interest in seeing you claim that the truth is somehow "Christian-bashing" yet again. Besides, the judgement of your peers ought to be the least of your worries at this point...
348 posted on 07/27/2003 12:29 PM CDT by general_re
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/952086/posts?page=348#348

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And this is how it went until he finally ran away.

same crap we see right here
He wants to make such an asinine accusation in public, but wants to discuss it in private.

Stay away from juries general!

[ALS]

and you are?

[balrog666]

We need to separate school and state; then these crevo threads wouldn't have any political relevance.

BINGO!

AFAIK, we all agree on that.

[ALS]

you left out what came before..

To: balrog666

Bye Bye Trollerman




3,404 posted on 07/28/2003 5:15 PM CDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: longshadow

Trolls moved to brighter pastures Placemarker


3,405 posted on 07/28/2003 5:25 PM CDT by Aric2000 (If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance god)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/backroom/949088/posts?page=3402#3402

[goodseedhomeschool (returned)]

A very interesting thread this seems to be.

[ALS]

Agree on ending the christian bashing and you'll get actual results.

Why do you refuse to do that?

[VadeRetro]

It gets funnier:

Posted by VadeRetro to ALS
On News/Activism 07/02/2003 11:49 PM EDT #1,105 of 1,251

you lied when you called me a liar

Let's add that to the official "lie" list. I asked you what you were doing calling me a liar in post 982. Here you answered specifically "you lied when you called me a liar." Here you cited post 998 as the offending incident. Gee! Wouldn't 998 have occurred after 982? It certainly has a later time stamp!

Without worrying about defending the content of my characterization of you in 998--but I've covered that adequately--I can truthfully say you're lying again! You called me a liar in post 982. That, I'd say, was one lie. Your post 1059 is another lie, about what you were doing calling me a liar in post 982!

I can back up what I say.

Here's what's funny about Holy Warrior syndrome. Your fellow Holy Warriors--even if some are truly appalled at your antics--they are not allowed to take you publicly to task. That would be undercutting a fellow Holy Warrior trolling for suckers. They have to grin and bear it as you sabotage your movement from within.

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How's that for something that's still a good question? Your psychic powers told you to call me a liar in 982 because I was going to call you a liar in 998?

I was wrong in saying I can back up what I say. Once again, all the links are to a pulled thread. You could deny it all now if you had to. And you're under no pressure to do even that. Everybody knows, but it doesn't matter.

[VadeRetro]

"Monkey spanks!" The boy's branching out in an effort to raise the level of discourse on these threads.

[ALS]

BUSTED!

To: general_re; JesseShurun

So you can't prove you bashed a christian without more christian bashing? All your "evidence" resides on a pulled thread?

HAHAHA! Isn't that convenient.

No one on FR would appreciate being accused of something, and when the demand to prove it arises, the accuser can't, but will attempt to convince anyone in private of their version with no facts.

Right now you are only posting to this thread in attempt to rescue your imagined honor.


353 posted on 07/27/2003 12:52 PM CDT by ALS (http://designeduniverse.com Featuring original works by FR's finest . contact me to add yours!)
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To: ALS

Of course it's on a pulled thread - you had it pulled, which I can also demonstrate. I'm not surprised that you didn't save it, though - your handiwork there was nothing to be particularly proud of. Nevertheless, I have all the facts, as anyone who freepmails and asks can readily verify for themselves. You don't seem to know the difference between criticizing you and "Christian-bashing", and thus, in deference to your apparent handicap, I will preempt the usual spittle-flecked posts accusing anyone who dares to disgree of "Christian-bashing" by taking the discussion elsewhere.

You'll get over it - your reputation is pretty spotty these days anyway, so it's not like this'll be news to anyone...


354 posted on 07/27/2003 1:02 PM CDT by general_re
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/952086/reply?comment=353

[headsonpikes]

"and you are?"

A lurker on many threads, a poster on some.

When I notice egregious behavior on a thread, I often see fit to comment.

In your case, I noticed a pattern on this thread - that while some posters were attempting to have a civil discussion, some few were focussed on taunting their opponents without remit or respect.

You, sir, were the worst offender among these latter.

[ALS]

"I was wrong in saying I can back up what I say. Once again, all the links are to a pulled thread."

awwww, that's just terrible

you can't prove it

so where's my apology?

[ALS]

"When I notice egregious behavior on a thread, I often see fit to comment."

WE do believe you missed a few from your brethren.

honesty is a problem for you isn't it

[headsonpikes]

I rest my case.

[ALS]

You didn't have one to rest.

checkya later tater

[VadeRetro]

so where's my apology?

For you lying your butt off or for you getting the thread pulled?

[ALS]

You can't prove the first and the 2nd was already shown to be you.

just in case the same lurkers you are lying for wanted to know...