sophie

It so happened one day while an atheist and a scientist were out for a pleasant stroll in the streets of an ordinary city, they saw a fairly large crowd gathered at an intersection. Curious they walked up to the crowd and politely inquired what was happening. �GOD� replied one excited cross bearing looking fundie, we are waiting for GOD to appear. �GOD� exclaimed the atheist. �Yep� said the fundie while crossing hisself, we are using the scientific method.

The two friends looked at each other winked and laughed. �This is gonna be good� said the scientist, �Well�, replied the atheist mockingly, �let us go debunk�. Slapping each other on the back, with arms linked they pushed through the crowd to the center of the attraction.

At the center of the crowd, was a small man, hair sticking out in all directions, waving madly at a rectangular shape covered with a large blackish grey cloth. �What�s up', contended the scientist. The small man with brown eyes who seemed to be in charge glanced at the pair, and nodded solemnly, �GOD�s gonna show up�, he said. �Yeh, yeh, yeh�, shouted the crowd in unison. The atheist pointed to the covered box-like thing and said, �through that�. �Yep�, replied the little man. �Someone said it was scientific�, the scientist prodded, �let us see�. �Sure� the little man responded, seeming to grow in stature all the while. :boohoo:

He ripped off the cloth and underneath was a glass case with all sorts of tubes extruding with nothing within the glass enclosure. �That�, exclaimed the scientist, �what exactly is it�. �It is a scientific vacuum�, shrugged the wild haired man, �nothing is in it� . �Sure seems so� laughed the atheist. �How is GOD going to show�. �Simple� quipped the man, �There is going to be a big bang out of nothing�, �We are waiting for another world to be created, a scientific GOD� . Then he laughed. Then the crowd roared, rocking back and forth in classic fundie style, holding their stomachs and clapping fervently, in seeming endless laughter.

The scientist looked sheepishly at the atheist while the crowd stood there mocking them. �You wouldn�t be a scientist by any chance�, the brown eyed man asked politely. �Me, no of course not�, replied the scientist, 'I am a labourer', as he denied his true vocation, then he and his atheist friend ran full speed out the crowd, as the gathering parted for them. The atheist and the scientist covered their ears to the mocking �ha ha ha ha� coming from the crowd of fundies.

Jobar

Your point being?...

Jade

Don't you mean "The atheist and the scientist covered their ears to the mocking �HAW HAW HAW!� coming from the crowd of fundies."

sophie

An interesting and facinating beginning to the open hypothesis of scientific GOD or human GOD.


I hope you do not mind too terribly. . .

Viti

I don't get it

Vicar Philip

Hmmmm. Did you write that story, Sophie?

One question. In your little story, you state the "small man, hair sticking out in all directions" has constructed a box with the air removed to create a vacuum. The crowd (which must have not had much to do to congregate there for THAT "joke") laughs heartily when the small man pronounces they are waiting for the appearance of the "scientific god."

My question: How does the small man with the uncombed hair know the exact conditions that were present at the Big Bang, if that's even how the Universe started? Further, how does he know it was, in fact, the Big Bang at all? There are more theories for the beginning of the universe than just the Big Bang.

Vicar Philip

Well, I find it neither interesting nor "facinating" (sic). I lack a belief in either one of those two "GODS" you posit.

sophie

It seems close to impossible for me to doubt your statement.

sophie

Absolutely.

All seem to emanate from nothing, har de har.

But sir, bit sir, someone else may. I myself am fascinated by it.

Vicar Philip

Okay. From what did your god emanate? Nothing?