Earth: Flat or round? ‘View’ co-host unsure
I don’t watch “The View.” In fact, I can’t even imagine watching it. The very thought makes me shudder. The small clips I’ve seen convince me I’ve made the right choice in not allowing a band of shrieking women who constantly talk over each other enter my home for an hour every day.
But I was amused, as I’m sure you will be, by this clip, in which the recently anointed fifth co-host, Sherri Shepherd, gives the wrong answer when asked if she believes the Earth is flat: “I don’t know.”
It’s in the context of a discussion about evolution, which Shepherd definitely doesn’t believe in. Whoopi Goldberg (another recent addition to the show, and another good reason not to watch it) is trying to say, “If you trust science when it tells you the Earth is round, why not trust science when it tells you about evolution?” Only she doesn’t say it very well, and I’m not sure it’s a logically valid argument anyway. And besides, Shepherd apparently doesn’t trust science when it tells her the Earth is round. That, or she’s just never heard science mention it before.
Whoopi also tries to say, “Can’t you believe in God and evolution? Couldn’t you believe that God created organisms that then evolved, under His guidance, into more fully developed animals and species?” But she doesn’t say that very well, either, which is too bad, because I think it’s a good point of view to take.
Anyway, I don’t intend for this to be a debate on whether religious people can believe in evolution (although I am resigned to the fact that that’s what it will become anyway). And I categorically do not mean to imply that all religious people, like Sherri Shepherd, are ignorant of even the basics of scientific knowledge. All I wanted is for us to point and laugh at Sherri Shepherd for saying something dumb.
September 19th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
That was painful to watch. I think shows like this prove evolution is false. Look at the devolution of the art rhetoric and whom we give most credence to.
September 19th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
I wil happily laugh….”I don’t know?” I don’t watch” the view” either, thanks for the reinforcement that I’m not missing a single thing.
September 19th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
Hmmm….
As a biology teacher (with a biology degree from BYU, where I was required to take three credits of evolution), I know where I stand. Too bad they didn’t have someone with a background in science there who could explain it clearly. Especially a religious person with a background in science…
And too bad human beings have kind of taken themselves out of the ’selection’ process. Actually, I’m lying…I’d probably be dead if as many humans died in childhood as they used to. But, for human beings, a lot of us who have lesser physical or lesser mental skills, we’ll survive and reproduce (often more) than the smarter and stronger ones. Just look at that young lady Eric wrote about a couple of months ago…the one with a ton of kids, on welfare, all of her kids with different fathers…
The rest of life is still going through normal evolution. Human evolution, nowadays, is anything but normal.
September 19th, 2007 at 6:35 pm
Whenever I think of The View, I can’t help but recall Family Guy’s hilarious take on the show, and - almost like a dog - have learned to associate one with the other.
September 19th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
Very amusing.. also hard to watch. A little gem I liked at the end was when that woman on the right (whose name I should know but whatever) was talking about all the new things science is bringing and said, “Look what we have now, with… internets…”
Even Firefox is underlining the word “internets” right now to tell me that it’s not a word.. she believes in one God and many internets, apparently. Good for her.
September 20th, 2007 at 10:16 am
“Internets”–That was Barbara Walters, by all accounts the “brains” behind the show. It is a sad, sad fact that Joy Behar is the most reasonable, least annoying person on that show.
I wonder if, when Sherri Shepherd mentioned “going to the library”, what she actually meant was “check Conservapedia”. I best those crazy Conservapedians are skeptical of the earth’s roundness, too.
September 20th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
“Internets”… teehee!
September 20th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
They took down the clip of Family Guy and the View for some odd reason attributed to legal things. Fortunately the F.G. clip of the Ah-ha video is still there! Huzzah!
September 20th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
I can put my mind around the fact that there are crazies out there who believe the world is flat. But for it to never have occurred to someone? Ever? Even in school when they teach you about Columbus and how the earth is round and in the olden days people were morons who insisted it was flat? Really??
“Babies being born in sperms.” Is that what Walters said there?
September 20th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
I choose to point and laugh at Barbara Walters. I want my husband to carry our children in his sperms - it will save me the stretch marks.
September 20th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
Can I get the YouTube URL from someone, please? My Quicktime still hates me and the rest of my computer, and now, YouTube is really the only place where I can watch the videos posted here. Thanks.
September 21st, 2007 at 2:33 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ACobXN7_p8
September 21st, 2007 at 4:12 pm
Thanks!
September 25th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
It’s all over YouTube now. Just do a search for “view earth flat” (without quotes) and you’ll find it.
September 28th, 2007 at 9:48 am
It gets even better. Some kid posted a video on youtube trying to defend Sherri Shepard by reinterpreting the term “the world”. Clearly the woman is no philosopher, so I’m pretty sure the argument that the guy is making in the video never occurred to her. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FLjN3tt7xo