evolution ???
chris got me thinking about this when he put a top-5 quote list on his blog. this is one of my favorite tv conversations.
background: the conversation is between "friends" ross and phoebe. for those who don't watch the show, ross is a very uptight anal-retentive palentologist who is trying to convince phoebe that evolution is how we all got here. phoebe, the somewhat out-of-touch-with-reality blond musical artist of "smelly cat" fame, earlier said that she didn't believe in darwin's theories because they we just "too easy." ross spends the rest of the show trying to convert phoebe to his way of thinking. this is the final exchange on the subject.
Ross: What? Ok, Phoebe, this is it. In this briefcase I carry actual scientific facts. A briefcase of facts, if you will. Some of these fossils are over 200 million years old.
Pheobe: Ok, look, before you even start, I'm not denying evolution, ok, I'm just saying that it's one of the possibilities.
Ross: What!? It's the only possibility, Phoebe!
Pheobe: Ok, Ross, could you just open your mind like this much, ok? Wasn't there a time when the brightest minds in the world believed that the world was flat? And, up until like what, 50 years ago, you all thought the atom was the smallest thing, until you split it open, and this like, whole mess of crap came out. Now, are you telling me that you are so unbelievably arrogant that you can't admit that there's a teeny tiny possibility that you could be wrong about this?
[long pause]
Ross: There might be, a teeny, tiny, possibility.
Pheobe: I can't believe you caved.
Ross: What?
Pheobe: You just abandoned your whole belief system. I mean, before, I didn't agree with you, but at least I respected you. How, how, how are you going to go into work tomorrow? How, how are you going to face the other science guys? How, how are you going to face yourself? Oh! That was fun. So, who's hungry?
background: the conversation is between "friends" ross and phoebe. for those who don't watch the show, ross is a very uptight anal-retentive palentologist who is trying to convince phoebe that evolution is how we all got here. phoebe, the somewhat out-of-touch-with-reality blond musical artist of "smelly cat" fame, earlier said that she didn't believe in darwin's theories because they we just "too easy." ross spends the rest of the show trying to convert phoebe to his way of thinking. this is the final exchange on the subject.
Ross: What? Ok, Phoebe, this is it. In this briefcase I carry actual scientific facts. A briefcase of facts, if you will. Some of these fossils are over 200 million years old.
Pheobe: Ok, look, before you even start, I'm not denying evolution, ok, I'm just saying that it's one of the possibilities.
Ross: What!? It's the only possibility, Phoebe!
Pheobe: Ok, Ross, could you just open your mind like this much, ok? Wasn't there a time when the brightest minds in the world believed that the world was flat? And, up until like what, 50 years ago, you all thought the atom was the smallest thing, until you split it open, and this like, whole mess of crap came out. Now, are you telling me that you are so unbelievably arrogant that you can't admit that there's a teeny tiny possibility that you could be wrong about this?
[long pause]
Ross: There might be, a teeny, tiny, possibility.
Pheobe: I can't believe you caved.
Ross: What?
Pheobe: You just abandoned your whole belief system. I mean, before, I didn't agree with you, but at least I respected you. How, how, how are you going to go into work tomorrow? How, how are you going to face the other science guys? How, how are you going to face yourself? Oh! That was fun. So, who's hungry?
posted by secretsquirrel | 11:24 AM
6 Comments:
best friends moment ever!
maybe that show deserves it's own top 5?
nah, no-one's even done one for seinfield, yet. to skip straight to friends would just be blasphemous.
yeah, seinfeld should definitely come first, but narrowing it down to 5 will be tough . . . shrinkage; bubbleboy; ugly baby; master of my domain - there are just too many to count.
here's another one that requires set-up. it's from spin city. i don't know the names, & the exchange is paraphrased:
big, gay, black guy anounces to middle-aged playboy wanna-be that he's on his way to play basketball.
wanna-be: "wait. you play basketball?"
gay guy: "sure. oh, i sea. you're surprised i play sports, because i'm gay. but you sea, i'm also black. so, it's really just a matter of your conflicting stereotypes."
i love that exchange from "friends" for the humour of it all. however, i feel that her original argument that there is the possibility of a different scenario to be most appropriate. i cannot stand those who believe that everything is the way they see it simply because that's what they believe to be true. i think open-mindedness on all things - regardless of how strongly a person may believe - is best. as a wise man once said, "in all things be moderate."
let's not forget the simpson's. there are quite a few quote-wrothy moments there too. :)
amen on the simpsons, fro.
as for moderation in all things, i think moderate is code for undecided. which is fine, but once you decide, stick to it. actually, i believe that quote is from a play, but have no idea what it could be. the character who said it was anything but wise, though. moderation was his answer for everything. fro, darren, you're the well-read ones. ring any bells?
i do agree w/you @ the "evolution is the only possibility" crowd. and i agree w/ phoebe's perfectly couched argument: it is the epitome of arrogance to assume that you know or can possibly understand enough to say w/out a doubt that this is the only way it could've happened.
personally, i don't think it happened that way, but i also don't really care if it did, or not. i believe we're GOD's creations, one way or the other, & if that's true, what difference do the minor details make to me?
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