Reality TV idea

[Pesto]

Take a bunch of creationists, and put them in a rigorous science education program involving their doing actual experiments, both in the lab and in the field.

I don't know if it would ever have the popular appeal to take off, but I certainly would find it entertaining. What does everyone else here think?

 

[GoSeminoles!]

Just put the creationists on "are you smarter than a 5th grader" and have all the topics be about the evolution-related sciences.

 

[Cabal]

Doesn't this just happen in real life when Christian kids go into higher education that ISN'T a Bible college?

 

[gaara4158]

Bet!!! dude that sounds awesome, the 5th grader thing too. I'd watch it, although i'm sure creationist organizations would try to shut it down, calling it "oppression."

 

[Cabal]

"Persecution" is still a firm favourite.

 

[gaara4158]

ahh, that's the word i was looking for.

 

[Pesto]

Doesn't this just happen in real life when Christian kids go into higher education that ISN'T a Bible college?

Except that isn't filmed and put on national broadcast television.

 

[Pesto]

"Persecution" is still a firm favourite.

Like any reality TV, it would be strictly voluntary. It probably wouldn't stop a lot of people from complaining, though.

 

[Gracchus]

It could be called "Creationists in Hell"!

 

[Chesterton]

Take a bunch of creationists, and put them in a rigorous science education program involving their doing actual experiments, both in the lab and in the field.

I don't know if it would ever have the popular appeal to take off, but I certainly would find it entertaining. What does everyone else here think?

To make it exciting for TV, it needs some more drama, you know, some danger. So here's my idea: You get a rope and dangle some atheists over a pit of starving lions. You start slowing lowering them into the pit, and tell them you'll stop lowering as soon as they can explain how something can come from nothing.

 

[Cabal]

To make it exciting for TV, it needs some more drama, you know, some danger. So here's my idea: You get a rope and dangle some atheists over a pit of starving lions. You start slowing lowering them into the pit, and tell them you'll stop lowering as soon as they can explain how something can come from nothing.

Yikes....still bitter after Nero much?

Guess creationists are afraid to learn real science then if this is their idea of original programming...

Ok, we can compromise. Creationists do experiments, atheists go to Bible studies.

Except this will obviously be unfair on the Creationists of course.

 

[Gracchus]

To make it exciting for TV, it needs some more drama, you know, some danger. So here's my idea: You get a rope and dangle some atheists over a pit of starving lions. You start slowing lowering them into the pit, and tell them you'll stop lowering as soon as they can explain how something can come from nothing.

Christians! Ya gotta love 'em!

 

[corvus_corax]

To make it exciting for TV, it needs some more drama, you know, some danger. So here's my idea: You get a rope and dangle some atheists over a pit of starving lions. You start slowing lowering them into the pit, and tell them you'll stop lowering as soon as they can explain how something can come from nothing.

"Quantum fluctuations" one of the atheists yells out a mere 2 seconds into the show.
Roll end credits, the atheists win on what may have been the shortest show in history

 

[atomweaver]

To make it exciting for TV, it needs some more drama, you know, some danger. So here's my idea: You get a rope and dangle some atheists over a pit of starving lions. You start slowing lowering them into the pit, and tell them you'll stop lowering as soon as they can explain how something can come from nothing.

Religion is the consequence of humanity's inability to provide a cause for its own existence. Voila! Something from nothing.

(Although I'd expect they would still feed me to the lions for 'blashpemy'. Zealots seem to enjoy that sort of thing, and violence and religion usually go hand in hand...)

 

[Chesterton]

"Quantum fluctuations" one of the atheists yells out a mere 2 seconds into the show.

The director glances over at the show's physicist consultant. The physicist shakes his head and says "keep lowering".

 

[atomweaver]

The director glances over at the show's physicist consultant. The physicist shakes his head and says "keep lowering".

Who is this physicist consultant, Kent Hovind?

(You never know, while in jail, he's had the time to mail-order any number of specialty PhD's...)

 

[Tomk80]

The director glances over at the show's physicist consultant. The physicist shakes his head and says "keep lowering".

Feel free to explain yourself. What is the cause behind quantum fluctuations?

 

[Split Rock]

To make it exciting for TV, it needs some more drama, you know, some danger. So here's my idea: You get a rope and dangle some atheists over a pit of starving lions. You start slowing lowering them into the pit, and tell them you'll stop lowering as soon as they can explain how something can come from nothing.

Here we see how a "True Christian" follows the teachings of Jesus of Nazarath. Well done, sir!

Hey, I just thought of an alternative version of your show. You get a rope and dangle some creationist over a pit of starving lions. You start slowing lowering them into the pit, and tell them you'll stop lowering as soon as they can explain how God come from nothing.

 

[Chesterton]

Feel free to explain yourself. What is the cause behind quantum fluctuations?

Did you mean to ask "what is the cause behind them" or "what do they cause"?

 

[Chesterton]

Here we see how a "True Christian" follows the teachings of Jesus of Nazarath. Well done, sir!

Hey, I just thought of an alternative version of your show. You get a rope and dangle some creationist over a pit of starving lions. You start slowing lowering them into the pit, and tell them you'll stop lowering as soon as they can explain how God come from nothing.

And you'll get the same answer we've always given. God doesn't come from anything. He is eternal and uncreated. But I think you already knew that; there'd be no suspense to that show. The atheists however, claim something for which the world is still awaiting an explanation.