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Lost-in-FL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-02-09 10:32 PM
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10 + 6 Reasons why God never got a PhD
Edited on Mon Nov-02-09 10:47 PM by Lost-in-FL
1. He had only one major publication.
2. It was written in Aramaic, not English.
3. It had no references.
4. It wasn't published in a refereed journal.
5. There are serious doubts he wrote it himself.
6. It may be true that he created the world, but what has he done since then?
7. His cooperative efforts have been quite limited.
8. The scientific community has had a hard time replicating his results.
9. He never applied to the ethics board for permission to use human subjetcs.
10. When one experiment went awry he tried to cover it by drowning the subjects.
11. When subjects didn't behave as predicted, he deleted them from the sample.
12. He rarely came to class, just told students to read the book.
13. Some say he had his son teach the class.
14. He expelled his first two students for learning.
15. Although there were only 10 requirements, most of his students failed his tests.
16. His office hours were infrequent and usually held on a mountaintop.


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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-02-09 10:43 PM
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1. He allows his grad students create & supervise the tests
and they don't understand the source material.
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darkstar3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-02-09 10:44 PM
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2. +100. Awesome. :)
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boppers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-02-09 10:46 PM
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3. 16 is the new ten? eom
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Lost-in-FL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-02-09 10:47 PM
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4. You know? I just noticed that.
:crazy:
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-02-09 11:00 PM
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5. In Hexadecimal? Yes. n/t
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boppers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-02-09 11:24 PM
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6. HAH!
I grade that as an "F", or rather, "0xF".
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Ozymanithrax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-03-09 12:42 AM
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7. Publish or Perish is what they say, so I guess that God is dead.
Nice list.
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