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RE: What is your opinion of banana man
August 28, 2013 at 9:30 pm
(August 28, 2013 at 8:17 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: Ray comfort. I think hes a lieing cheat trying to con guillable people out of their money.
Fortunately for him, there is no shortage of gullible people with money.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
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RE: What is your opinion of banana man
August 28, 2013 at 9:50 pm
(August 28, 2013 at 8:23 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: He is either very clever or very stupid. There's not much room for middle ground.
Kind of reminds of george bush
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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RE: What is your opinion of banana man
August 29, 2013 at 12:38 pm
(August 28, 2013 at 8:58 pm)Stimbo Wrote: My opinion of Cumfart can be summarised in this way (other than the autocorrected version of his name). One of his trademark sermons is the parachute analogy. Basically, the idea is you're on an aeroplane that's about to crash. Forget wealth, treasure and possessions; the most valuable item you could hope to have is a parachute. And the parachute is God etc etc.
One commentor on the Atheist Experience blog when he trotted out this tired old nag on the show put it beautifully:
Quote:it’s more like he is telling you he will cut the engines, and won’t give you the parachute if you don’t agree to kiss his feet forever. He’s creating the problem and then offering you the solution. Then you look around and realize, he can’t cut the engines, and there was never a ‘chute anyways.
The better reply to this would be "Well then you'd be really fucked when you found out the parachute was imaginary."
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RE: What is your opinion of banana man
August 29, 2013 at 12:42 pm
Could someone explain to me who this Banana Man is?
ronedee Wrote:Science doesn't have a good explaination for water
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RE: What is your opinion of banana man
August 29, 2013 at 12:49 pm
Banana man.
One of my favourite cartoons growing up.
But the I always liked Graham Gardens comedy he was very good in the goodies.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
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RE: What is your opinion of banana man
August 29, 2013 at 12:50 pm
(August 29, 2013 at 12:42 pm)CleanShavenJesus Wrote: Could someone explain to me who this Banana Man is?
He's a creationist who has duped a number of idiots (including Kirk Cameron, who has become his high profile chimp). One of his talking points, until fairly recently, was that the banana was evidence of God's design because, due to its size and shape, it fit so well in the human hand. He was unaware that the contemporary banana is the result of human selection.
Needless to say (though I will), he is a walking punch line -- almost as bad as Kent Hovind.
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RE: What is your opinion of banana man
August 29, 2013 at 3:27 pm
I really, really think he is for real but just not very bright. I think he believes what he's selling but like most Christians doesn't question any of it because that would put a damper on his faith. The reason I don't think he's very smart, aside from not knowing that what we know as the banana was engineered by man, but because he didn't even know that humans have a blind spot in our eyes. Someone brought up the blind spot in our eyes as an example of imperfect design, and Ray claimed he not only doesn't have a blind spot, but anyone who does should immediately go to an eye doctor.
Anyone else ever watch King of the Hill? The character Peggy Hill always had a very high opinion of herself and thought she was much smarter than she was, though her ignorance got her in over her head now and then, and despite realizing she's not as smart as she thinks, she keeps getting into new situations. I think of Ray Comfort the same way. He thinks he's vastly more intelligent than evolutionary biologists, and he thinks he's vastly more intelligent than he really is, and it leads him into making some royal gaffes like the banana claims and the blind spot gaffe.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
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RE: What is your opinion of banana man
August 29, 2013 at 4:10 pm
"Smart" xtians are the ones who have big bank accounts.
"Regular" xtians are the ones who keep giving money to the smart ones.
The whole thing is the biggest fucking scam ever devised.
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RE: What is your opinion of banana man
August 29, 2013 at 4:42 pm
(August 29, 2013 at 12:50 pm)Crossless1 Wrote: almost as bad as Kent Hovind.
Well... I'd say Hovind has been rendered temporarily harmless - considering he's currently rotting in Federal prison.
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RE: What is your opinion of banana man
August 29, 2013 at 5:11 pm
Dam i thought this was going to be about the real banana man from my childhood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq2KXudEjkI
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
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