(August 28, 2013 at 8:35 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: I don't think it's a con. So I have to go with the idea of stupid or just very zealous. According to his wiki page he became a minister in his 20s. Seems like a lot of work to con people.
That's never stopped others from conning people; the only requirement is that they think the con is less work than a legitimate job would be. Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't.
(September 3, 2013 at 8:19 am)Faith No More Wrote: Wait, the crocoduck was actually proposed as an argument? I thought it was something that was made up just to make fun of creationists. I didn't think it was possible, but my opinion of Comfort and Cameron has gone further down.
I was describing Ray Comfort, Kirk Cameron and the crocoduck thing to my best friend the other day and she about went into convulsions because she was laughing so hard. She followed her laughter up with an anecdote about when she was in Germany and went to a taxidermy shop (don't ask, I didn't) where they mixed and matched animals parts to make the equivalent of taxidermied crocoducks and all the things Ray Comfort keeps squalling about.
It got me wondering whether you could present Comfort with such a taxidermied creature, what he would make of it and how he would change tactics when you showed it to him, assuming he believed it might be real (could he be that stupid?).
Alas, it would probably do evolution a disservice to pull such a prank.
Too bad.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
