Comedy | November 18, 2009 | 82 comments

The Banana is the Atheist's Worst Nightmare

source: http://www.dontdissdarwin.com/

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New Zealand born evangelical Christian Ray Comfort, aka "the banana man", has published a new 150th anniversary edition of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, complete with a 50-page creationist introduction.

Working with child actor Kirk Cameron, Comfort and his lackeys will be distributing 50,000 copies of the book for free on 50 college campuses around the US tomorrow.

"All we want to do is propose the opposing and correct view," says Growing Pains star Cameron, who, as far as I can tell, has equally impeccable credentials in evolutionary biology as Comfort--meaning, of course, none whatsoever.

Comfort is known as the banana man thanks to his claim that the banana is "the atheist's worst nightmare", as the fruit was obviously intelligently designed for human consumption.


If you think I'm joking, check out the video above.


In reality, bananas were selectively bred over time by humans to attain their current "intelligently designed" form. Wild bananas contained large seeds, were not "made to sit comfortably in the human hand", nor did they have the "pointed tip for ease of entry".


As for the creationist Origin, I see no need to seriously worry about it. The arguments in Comfort's introduction are so outdated, wrong and at times downright bizarre that anyone with a half a brain will realize immediately that it is bogus; meanwhile, Darwin's well-reasoned, evidence-based text that follows shines with added brilliance by comparison.

The gist of Comfort's introduction is that if you accept evolution, you will burn in Hell for eternity.

"Perhaps the thought of Hell doesn't scare you, because you don't believe in it," Comfort writes. "That's like standing in the open door of a plane 10,000 feet off the ground and saying, 'I don't believe there will be any consequences if I jump without a parachute'." (Need I point out the logical flaw here?)

Comfort's various criticisms of Darwin's "racism", the implications of "social Darwinism", the "lack of transitional fossils" or evolution's violation of the second law of thermodynamics (which demonstrates a blatant ignorance of physics, as well as biology) are laughable. But in case anyone needs to find out why they are seriously wrong, the always-clever folks at the National Center for Science Education have set up a website in response to Comfort's claims:

http://www.dontdissdarwin.com/





http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2009/11/creationist-bananas.php
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82 comments // The Banana is the Atheist's Worst Nightmare // Video

  • EtVoila
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      EtVoila  

    • And, so, the Young Earth Creationists' quest continues, on a relentless journey to reassure themselves that SkyDaddy created Earth 6000 years ago... -.-

    • 2 years ago
  • pandaman2105
  • asherp
  • letlhogonolo
  • MirTavakoli
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      MirTavakoli  

    • why in the world one should think that there is not a purpose? there are purpose for every even bummest act we commit as human beings. Logic is the foundation of our civilization and ones without it should be left out of any decent attention.

    • 2 years ago
  • retro_Syl
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      retro_Syl  

    • "Never say, and never take seriously anyone who says, 'I cannot believe that so-and-so could have evolved by gradual selection.' I have dubbed this kind of fallacy 'the Argument from Personal Incredulity.' Time and again, it has proven the prelude to an intellectual BANANA-skin experience."

      - Richard Dawkins

    • 2 years ago
  • J_Jammer
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      J_Jammer [removed]  

    • This is so old and the only reason to post it is to hate on people.

      And who cares if he spreads his ignorant seed. What are you going to do? Protest his arrival? Ignorants breads like wildfire. Just look at the taser debate. Hate cops that protect people from others and themselves.

    • 2 years ago
  • pjacobs51
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      pjacobs51  
    • J_Jammer:

      "This is so old and the only reason to post it is to hate on people."

      Ignorance is bliss and also very comedic, if you didn't notice the first "group" added to this was "comedy" not "hate."

      If I could find a really ignorant statement made by an atheist I would do the same thing. NO hate intended, just a good old WTF belly laugh.

      Peace

    • 2 years ago
  • J_Jammer
  • blaino
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      blaino  
    • J_Jammer:

      JJ What is your beef with the current community?!

      I mean for gods sake this man is talking about how a fucking !!!BANANA!!! disproves evolutionary theory, even though that theory is steadily becoming fact. In time they will have discovered the exact point where the evolutionary split occurred and will have disproved intelligent design.

      This man is filling peoples head with scary stories about an almighty god who, if you dont believe in his ridiculous intelligent design theory, will throw you into hell forever. Preying on peoples ignorance and fear.

      WHY!!? Why cant you accept that this man is an honest to god idiot and deserves to be discredited.

    • 2 years ago
  • J_Jammer
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      J_Jammer [removed]  
    • J_Jammer:

      I think Barney is the worst children's show EVER. I don't go around telling parents they are teaching their children to be a stupid Purple dinosaur. Why do atheist care? I thought they don't speak about what they don't believe in.

    • 2 years ago
  • pjacobs51
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      pjacobs51  
    • J_Jammer:

      "Comedy, as you well know, can be done in malice."

      You either don't know the difference between hate and comedy or you are the ultimate hypocrite.

      Enter: Dane Cook on the post "Answer to a "comment" + Atheist" where you thought it funny to ax-murder an atheist, drag him through the mud, take him to a sawmill, and reduce him to pulp, and have the bible printed on him.

      Or as you so impolitely commented, "Or make a wooden cross out of him, ha ha ha."

      If that isn't hate, I really don't know what is.

      And I'm actually feeling sorry for you.

    • 2 years ago
  • J_Jammer
  • pjacobs51
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      pjacobs51  
    • J_Jammer:

      "Chopping a tree isn't murder"

      That's purely Christianized Western thought ('cause it says so in the bible right?)
      Where murder is limited to only one species, humans.

      We Cherokee, and many others, see things in a whole different light.
      You should read up on it sometime. You may be enlightened.

    • 2 years ago
  • J_Jammer
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      J_Jammer [removed]  
    • J_Jammer:

      Since you posted about a banana being stripped naked without giving its consent....I will laugh at your tree comment because you can't possibly think I'd take that seriously with that banana doing a strip tease.

    • 2 years ago
  • pjacobs51
  • J_Jammer
  • pjacobs51
  • jeffreyak
  • Vierotchka
  • TootieBootie
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      TootieBootie  

    • Why do people continue to juxtapose the ideas of creationism and evolution? Can no one accept the possibility that perhaps the two theories are both involved in the origin of the world?

    • 2 years ago
  • in4itsover
  • Minus5scenePoints
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      Minus5scenePoints  

    • Ok, well, 'god may have perfectly designed them' for people to eat, thus god MUST be real. BUT!!!! This self-help video shows you how to defend your self against a assailant with a Banana!

    • 2 years ago
  • ahappymintleaf
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      ahappymintleaf  

    • They were on campus today and I'm sad I didn't get a copy. I could have at least ripped out the bullshit introduction and then had a free copy of an important textbook. My biological anthropology teacher said he ripped a new one into the man that gave him a copy, saying that by distributing a skewed copy of infamous text is highly dishonest and incredibly shameful, especially when it's full of lies and those who receive copies aren't told of the modifications. He was videotaped and constantly asked if he uses the Lord's name, if he has ever lied in his life and if he believes in heaven or hell.
      For such organizations to have to work so hard against opposing thought is pathetic. And using logical fallacies that are so gaping that only their deliberately ignorant minds will fall for them. If only such religious extremism could die out in a fizzle. It's getting old.

    • 2 years ago
  • Ajil
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      Ajil  
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    • A Banana! Really? RRRRrrreally? Um what do we stereotypically think of monkeys eating? Do they not also have grooves and a mouth? Oh, the stupidity!

    • 2 years ago
  • retro_Syl
  • LowShred
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      LowShred  

    • What about apples, oranges, watermelons, cantaloupes, strawberries, kiwi, mangos, coconuts and all the other fruits out there? I'm pretty sure that we weren't designed to eat only bananas. That's it, I'm pulling a super size me and I'm eating nothing but bananas for a month. I'm pretty sure my body is going to hate me.

    • 2 years ago
  • Wessagusset_Oracle
  • UndoInfluence
  • BustYourFace
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      BustYourFace  

    • This self imposed ignorance is unbearable to anyone who chooses to see reason. I feel so sorry for these guys. They are actually missing out on life and all that matters about it chasing these insane beliefs.

    • 2 years ago
  • desertcat
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      desertcat  

    • He is wrong, it proves that cats are smarter than people. True, when was the last time your cat meowed for a banana? Why waste time trying to peal a banana when a healthy human with can opener is right there.

    • 2 years ago
  • CarlosIsDown
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      CarlosIsDown  

    • Haha. Some people eat the banana the other way. I have seven grooves around my fingers. If it's "easier to eat", it make it easier for humans to eat at on the go, poop and the seeds in your poop would germinate. . . Darwin again. . .

    • 2 years ago
  • Sam_Rodriguez
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      Sam_Rodriguez  

    • I was reading Vonnegut the other day, and came across an interesting piece of information, which seems to make perfect sense to me: In regards to the human eye, "No combination of Time and Luck could produce a camera that excellent, even in the quantity of 1,000,000,000 years! How is that on an unsolved mystery?" When you think about it, it makes sense. Only incredibly safisticated visual recording equipment could reproduce a picture so clear as to that that can be viewed through the human eye, and yet time and chance were suppose to manage it's production, using thoughtless, organic matter none the less. I'm not Christian, but the more and more I look, the more I find copious amounts of evidence for intelligent design.

      Oh but yea, Kirk Cameron is a dumbass and so is the dude he's with

    • 2 years ago
  • UndoInfluence
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      UndoInfluence  
    • Sam_Rodriguez:

      Yet if you do look at other species you do see both primitive versions that do miss pieces or more advanced versions of the eye. We, "made in a god's image", did not get the best eyes, nor ears, nor nose, we simply got the best brain. The brain, the organ that sets us apart from the soulless animals is not only easily traced through different stages of development in previous fossil records of ancestor species but is currently evolving in our own species.

    • 2 years ago
  • mako2424
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      mako2424  
    • Sam_Rodriguez:

      As Stephen Colbert might say, "It only makes sense if you don't think about it."

      Consider. Vonnegut was many things but a camera maker he was not. In the 15th century, a box with a hole in it passed for a camera. Now, we can store thousands of pictures on a little piece of metal and plastic. We can take pictures of galaxies and microbes. Given, and I'll round down, nine-hundred and ninety-nine million years, you don't think humans could develop a camera on par with their eyes? Really?

      Also, the "God of the Gaps" approach is an incredibly flawed argument for anything resembling intelligent design.

    • 2 years ago
  • vinicius
  • ras_menelik
  • jeffissleeping
  • jaflores85
  • vinicius
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      vinicius  
    • jaflores85:

      That's awesome dude. It's not like I never considered the other side, it just appeared harder to open from the bottom end. Do monkeys know this because they were "smarter" or because they were "dumb" enough to try even though the other end appeared to be more natural? Or am I just trying to find some bullshit reason to explain how I learned from a monkey?

    • 2 years ago
  • Ajil
  • cephas
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      cephas  

    • If Christians grew and smoked weed they would understand how utterly stupid this is. That is like saying God created Seedless Watermelons and Seedless Grapes!!! Not unless God came back to Earth in the 1950's and those church folks forgot to tell me. Or apples for that matter. Have you ever planted an old apple? It'll grown an apple tree well enough but the apples will be bitter.

    • 2 years ago
  • musiker91
  • bailey78
  • EmperorThan
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  • Lurkistan
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      Lurkistan  

    • So God created bananas specifically for human consumption? Then why the fuck am I allergic to them? Oh I bet its because I'm not religious enough, suck one Kirk!

    • 2 years ago
  • amandamanda
  • mako2424
  • tangibleparadox
  • ahappymintleaf
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      ahappymintleaf  
    • tangibleparadox:

      Atheists aren't that much of sneaky vermin. Plus we'd have to find the date that the Bible was first published, which is probably a few years of archeological digging away. Or simply hidden within the Vatican confines.

    • 2 years ago
  • unimatrix0
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      unimatrix0  

    • Creationists forfeit any and all intellectual respect.
      Creationism, or Intelligent Design, has no place in any discussion on the scientific origins of life.

    • 2 years ago
  • claybird121
  • Lurkistan
  • mako2424
  • ibrake4rappers13
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      ibrake4rappers13  

    • i gotta thank these guys for presenting the gospel to me in an understandable way.

      when i first became christian i didnt know what it was about all i knew is that i wanted to get right with god i went to church but they never told me the gospel straight up. i never quite understood it until i watched one of kirk camerons shows

      God bless those two.

    • 2 years ago
  • Ajil
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      Ajil  
    • ibrake4rappers13:

      I really hope your kidding, because these two have done more damage to Christianity then ever helping. Here is a debate they decided to have with Athiests, which has somewhere around 13 pieces to. I'm not trying to convert you, not if it makes you a good person, but for your own sake, dont validate your beliefs from two of the most incompetent souls on this planet. These guys actually believe the planet to be less than 10,000 years old. It obviously is not. Anyone that wishes to argue that is simply being stubborn with blind-narrow minded-faith. You can still be a Christian and believe in Evolution. Almost every sect of Christianity, as well as other religions believe evolution to be the best approach to explaining our origins. But to do so would imply interpreting the gospels as myths and fables, which brings into question the nature of 'Original Sin" and the need for a Savior.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDUBfRSf63w

    • 2 years ago
  • urbanwolf
  • Future_America
  • Mudboy16
  • CalPal
  • Atalanda_Cameron
  • pjacobs51
  • retro_Syl
  • JulianCommongold
  • LarzNero
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      LarzNero  

    • Weird synchronicity. I was just listening to a Dan Savage podcast today where someone was talking about sticking bananas and cucumbers in private places.

    • 2 years ago
  • H3ADLINE
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      H3ADLINE  

    • Oh no, they've discovered our only weakness! Curse you, Bananas! I can only imagine what they did to those bananas to make them talk. *shudder*

    • 2 years ago
  • think_free
  • claybird121
  • Robert_Traynere
  • pjacobs51
  • JulianCommongold
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      JulianCommongold  
    • Robert_Traynere:

      OMFG!!!!!!!!!

      I made the mistake of clicking on that link!!

      He shits all over that show(cant remember the name) and he uses it to promote his website.
      Typical hypocritical Christian...

      rot in your imaginary hell you fucking douchebag!!!!!

    • 2 years ago
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