Youtube Of The Day – Ray Comfort And The Atheist’s Nightmare

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This unintentionally hilarious Youtube is the stuff of legends, as possibly one of the most jaw droppingly inept Creationist arguments ever presented. It has been criticised, ridiculed and parodied a great deal and even most other Creationists distance themselves from it as much as possible. Ray Comfort declares that the banana is the perfect God-created fruit for the ease with which it fits the human hand, the ease of peeling it, etc. He also bizarrely talks of how the banana peels easily in this way so it doesn’t squirt its contents in our faces but bananas are solid enough not to liquidize or squirt like that. The parodies make much use of the banana’s phallic look in their skits on this. The basic problem for him is that the banana we find in shops is not proof of God’s intelligent design as he tries to convince us – the banana we know and love is 100% cultivated by man – the natural wild banana is green, squat, rather ugly, square shaped and much less easy to manipulate. Comfort’s argument also disintegrates if applied to other fruit, especially coconuts and pineapples as critics have demonstrated in numerous parodies. Fruit has evolved over millennia as a means for fruit trees to spread their seeds through the excretions of creatures eating the fruit but in cultivation by man bananas have become seedless and also vulnerable to so much blight that human engineered chemical treatments are used to treat them with. Also, many atheists, myself included, enjoy bananas immensely rather than having nightmares over them. Comfort’s claims have faced so much scorn that he himself now claims unconvincingly that he was only joking. Comfort’s argument is shared in its original presentation with Kirk Cameron, who was a leading child actor in the US sitcom Growing Pains before becoming an active Creationist. He makes no effort in the video to question Comfort’s preposterous notions. He simply agrees with every ludicrous word. Arthur Chappell