Smarter than a 3rd. grader?

Nice! That one goes in the favorite box.

-- Dan I.G.N.

The agnostic, dyslexic insomniac stayed up all night wondering if there really is a DOG…??

-- Drink twice... and don't bother to cut... @ larrysworkshop.wordpress.com For lovers of all things timber...

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAHAHA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

How flawless~!!
I love it.

-- When the moderator chooses sides, his site sucks.

lol atheist bashing! the joke could be turned around and still work, though the end could be a little more dramatic, knowing what happened the last time a plane was filled with pissed off believers!

Therefore, God exists…??? I realize that theists have always had inherent difficulties in making their case, but I didn’t realize it had gotten this bad. Was there an argument, or even a point, somewhere in that quip? I certainly laughed out loud.

Yeah, yeah, I know. It’s not about making sense. It’s about saying things that people like to hear. I’ll never learn.

Really guys? We have stooped to this new low? The race is on to see who will now be the first to post a black person joke. Why can’t people just leave other peoples beliefs alone.
-AG

ah come on a little joke with no harm in at all ….....not even by the writer of them
...............and someone is .....
whats the matter with the world to day

not to start a fight here …........just to say let us take it for what it is a harmless joke
to give some smiles on our faces :-)

best thoughts …. and have a great weekend with your beloved ones

Dennis

I have no problem with anybody’s belief, it is their right and privilege. All I have to do is plane a piece of wood, add a little varnish and take a long look at the wonderous beauty and ask myself how anyone can disprove how this was created – can’t be by accident !!!

-- David in Damascus, MD

I don’t think the little girls comments were to question the wisdom of being an athiest but more of an illustration of why should she waste her time debating with someone whom had not thought out their own position. We are inundated with instant ‘experts’ in the media all the time but I suspect they’d not pass the little girls test either.

I laughed out loud when I read this also!

-- "Checking for square? what madness is this! The cabinet is square because I will it to be so!" Jeremy Greiner LJ Topic#20953 2011 Feb 2

funny

-- Mike, Marietta,ny

No soap radio. I get it!

This joke is a classic example of informal logical fallacy, a logical error in the argument’s content. In other words the little girl incorrectly assumes that if A has no valid opinion on subject matter X, then A can not have valid opinion on subject matter Y, X not being a prerequisite or related to Y.
…
Albert Einstein: “How about theory of relativity” as he smiled smugly.
Little girl: “This could be interesting topics but let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same stuff – grass. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty, but a horse produces clumps. Why do you suppose that is?”
Albert Einstein: “Hmmm, I have no idea.”
Little girl: “Do you really feel qualified to discuss theory of relativity, when you don’t know shit?”
…
This chain of argumentation for a third grader is understandable.

Yep.. gotta love that they brought back a non-woodworking forum… coming from an Atheist that does knows his “shit” ... why a cow makes patties and a deer makes pellets and a horse clumps … and why this forum gets this “shit” as well … yay… sigh… I wish there was a way to only get notices of people projects not posts from this forum… instead since I don’t want this “shit”.. I gotta let people go from the buddy list… sigh.

-- ~ Eric P Jorgenson: Jorgenson Design

That little girl does not know much about animals. For example, deer eat very little grass. Anyone in deer territory with a lawn and a garden knows this all too well. According to this article, “grasses comprise only a very small part of the overall diet of the white-tailed deer, usually less than 10%.”

-- "Too much hurry ruins the body. I'll sit easy … fan the spark" - I. Anderson

My only suggestion is that the next time someone wants to interject what they believe to be a cleaver jab at a particular demographic, at least adjust the fallacy to accommodate the target audience. For example:

An atheist was seated next to Righteous Rachel at the Lie-Nielsen workshop on plane sharpening and he turned to her and said, “Do you want to talk? These workshops go much quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow hand-tool enthusiast.”

And then she went back to reading her favorite Cato Institute hack.