Welcome to Three-Minute Debunks, where we
debunk asinine assertions within three minutes,
and on this occasion, the star of the minutes
is the obnoxious Banana Boy, Ray Comfort.
On The Way of the Master, in 2006, Comfort
presented what he called “The Atheist’s
Nightmare”.
“Behold, the atheist’s nightmare!
Now if you study a well-made banana you’ll
find on the far side there are three ridges,
on the close ride two ridges.
If you get your hand ready to grip a banana
you’ll find on the far side there are three
groves, on the close side two groves.
The banana and the hand are perfectly made
one for the other.”
Now I’m going to spare to you the rest of
this fruitful sermon, but in a nutshell, Comfort
asserts that the banana has been deliberately
designed with humanity in mind, and that because
of this, it testifies to the existence of
an intelligent designer – which wouldn’t
you know, just so happens to be the super-specific
god that he believes in…
Sarcasm aside, the banana that we all know,
and most of us love, actually is a product
of intelligent design – it’s the result
of thousands of years of deliberate artificial
breeding… and so immediately, Comfort is
wrong… the banana has been deliberately
designed not by his god, but by humans for
humans, funny huh?
On the other hand, this is a natural banana;
it’s short, fat, littered with large and
hard seeds, tastes foul, and it’s low in
nutrients… but hey, If Comfort’s god exists,
it’s evidently the banana that it wants
you to enjoy… so… enjoy… or else!
And while we’re on the topic of laborious
fruit, what’s with coconuts, pineapples
and watermelons being so damn inaccessible?
Again, if Comfort’s god exists, then presumably
it doesn’t want us to eat these… but,
conversely, it does want us to eat the easily
accessible and tasty, but extremely deadly
Death Cap Mushroom…
You know, now that we think about it, by using
Comfort’s logic, the Death Cap actually
testifies to the existence of an evil devil-like
being, doesn’t it?
Furthermore, and to get serious, even if we
were able to prove, for sure, that the banana,
or indeed anything was created by a transcendent
intelligent designer, we would not be able
to infer from this alone what or perhaps who
this designer is or was…
Or to put in other words, even if valid, Comfort’s
argument only gets him to deism, and as Hitchens
used to say, “But if you've established
deism you've got all your work still ahead
of you to be a theist.
You have to show that this god, this person
who went to all this trouble with physics,
cares who you sleep with or how or whether
you should eat a pig or not or what day you
should observe as holy”.
I mean seriously Comfort, your lack of brainpower
testifies to the existence of Loki, the god
of pranks and mischief!
Anyhow, as always, thanks for kindly the view,
and if you know of a asinine comment, tweet,
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Until next time my fellow apes!
