(August 19, 2013 at 1:18 pm)Tonus Wrote:(August 19, 2013 at 1:09 pm)pineapplebunnybounce Wrote: I have trouble believing that people like him, and most of all, Ray Comfort, actually believes in what they're saying. But I've heard Comfort's interview and if he's faking, he's really good at it.
It's possible that some of them don't believe what they're peddling and keep doing it because it's lucrative. You have folks like those televangelists who lived very different lives than they preached (Baker, Swaggart, for example). But a combination of ignorance and stubbornness with a healthy dose of confirmation bias could be keeping them from learning enough to understand why they're wrong. The notion that he's putting "a final nail in evolution's coffin" seems so spectacularly wrong that it leaves you breathless, but for many believers it makes perfect sense because they really don't understand evolution.
To the person who believes that evolution can be debunked because "monkeys still exist," these jokers are downright brilliant.
I guess this is an easier industry than hollywood.
But they cater to a very specific group of people though. People who don't even know that bananas have gone through generations of artificial selection. It would require that they diligently stay away from newspapers, science, wikipedia, museums, etc etc. And talk to anyone who's knowledgeable about this.
It's so ridiculous, lol, almost no words for it.
