I just have no faith in anything Bill Bryson puts to paper. He's been proven a liar.

This may be true, but at least he's a hell of a lot more entertaining than Michael Moore.

Entertaining, yes. Truth by percentage I'd still go with Moore.

Apparently 1% of the static on a tv channel with nothing on is from the Big Bang.

What you're talking about must be the CMB, and I don't think it's something that's able to affect terrestrial broadcasts even at 1%.

Also, the move to digital (ATSC) transmissions will eventually eliminate our ability to glimpse that potential remainder of the early universe, anyway.

Blah blah blah nothing has been proven, it's a theory, so you're arguing nothing. Static is an empty frequency.

Blah blah blah nothing has been proven, it's a theory, so you're arguing nothing. Static is an empty frequency.

big bang = theory
cosmic microwave background radiation = measurable

OK fine, but drawing a straight line directly connecting one to one to the other, as Jai says Bryson has, is fallacy.

OK fine, but drawing a straight line directly connecting one to one to the other, as Jai says Bryson has, is fallacy.

I don't know about this Bryson dude, but I do know fallacies.

In fact, oops - it looks like what you're doing here is actually called "Argument from Ignorance".  eek!

Note: I'm not defending the existence or non-existence of the Big Bang as a universal origin.  I just want to see fallacies treated well.

Perhaps I'm not using the correct word. Which word would you use?

quejibo

It's a perfectly cromulent word...

I just have no faith in anything Bill Bryson puts to paper. He's been proven a liar.

This may be true, but at least he's a hell of a lot more entertaining than Michael Moore.

Is there an unwritten rule I'm missing about their names and alliteration?

No, just that they both have a tendency to stretch the truth in the name of entertainment.

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