Electronic/World Wide Web>Internet Article: Gervais, Ricky (Dec 22, 2010), Does God Exist? Ricky Gervais Takes Your Questions, Wall Street Journal, Retrieved on 2011-02-24Source Material [blogs.wsj.com]
Folksonomies: science atheism Memes
24 FEB 2011
Science Doesn't Concern Itself With What Doesn't Exist
Science doesn’t concern itself with the non-existence of something. The periodic table of imaginary things would be too big for a classroom- infinitely big in fact, and rather pointless. It’s not trying to prove the non-existence of anything supernatural. All it knows is there is no scientific proof of anything supernatural so far. When someone presents a jar of God it will test it. If it finds some evidence of “godness” it will follow the evidence till it knows everything it can. Th...Ricky Gervais describing why science only concerns itself with discovering truth, not what should be done with that truth.
24 FEB 2011
What Does a Comedian Know About God?
Since there is nothing to know about god, a comedian knows as much about god as any one else. An atheist however is alone in knowing that there is nothing to know so probably has the edge. An Atheist comedian can make people laugh about belief or lack of it. A good atheist comedian can make people laugh AND think about belief or lack of it. An agnostic would say that since you can neither prove the existence nor the non-existence of God then the only answer to the question “Is there a God?......and Ricky Gervais' brilliant response.