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Sure, they'll talk about stuff like bottled water not being special, and how ESP and talking to the dead is a crock, but when it comes to stuff that people already assume is lies, but really isn't; they are always on the side that you would expect them to be.

The Bible they call balderdash, but if you take notice, they have some crackpot MORON talking about how they mistranslated 'Red sea,' and that it is actually 'Reed sea'.
Therefore, if the 'winds are right,' then it's possible that they, through natural processes, blew the water aside so that they could walk across.

It's REALLY pathetic when a person who believes the Bible is accurate has to DEFEND THE BIBLE from the person who is trying to defend the Bible.

If it was ankle-deep water, then WHY did they freak out, instead of high-tailing it across? They wouldn't have been worried about the water 'block their path' if it was only a few inches deep.

Furthermore, the Bible says that they walked across on DRY GROUND. There were no puddles and no mud.
So even if your scientific nonsense was accurate, it wouldn't matter because it still would be unable to blow the water away AND dry the ground.

And what is more: The BIGGER miracle would have been the Pharaoh and all his army drowning in ankle-deep water.
That would be impressive.

No, it was a MIRACLE. It can't be explained with science. If it could, then it wouldn't be a miracle.
You can't use science to 'debunk' a miracle, either, since it is outside of scientific realm. We can't prove that it DID happen, but there's no reason to defend it, because they can't prove that it DIDN'T happen.

So like I was saying, they get an idiot with a ridiculous theory to defend the Bible, and they get reasonable, intelligent people to refute it.
That's unfair, and Penn and Teller are generally all about fairness.

And what about on their first episode, "Alternative Medicines"?
Disregarding the fact that they picked an extremist, lunatic, greedy dastard who uses chicanery; disregarding the fact that they used this guy to represent the chiropractic practice, I am willing to wager that they would call 'bull[expletive]' on VITAMINS, too.

I doubt that they would ever call poppycock on doctors and medicines while recommending an increased intake of natural vitamins.

This is because they don't mind debunking stuff that people already believe in or don't believe in. They don't want to REALLY get their hands dirty and try to debunk something that is ingrained in our society and HONESTLY believed, such as evolution. (It'd be so ridiculously easy to debunk evolution, and here's how: Natural selection SELECTS, and micro-evolution is a loss of genes, not a creation of genes; evolution debunked.)


So that's what I think. (But, of course, it's impossible for me to say that they honestly would not tackle a serious issue. I haven't seen all their episodes, yet, either.)

- Atari