Our regular readers know about the creationist “documentary” by Ray Comfort, who is best known for his starring role in Ray Comfort’s “Banana video”. We previously wrote this about Comfort’s masterpiece: Ray Comfort’s New Film — Retardation Alert, and then we posted Ray Comfort’s Film Thrills Creationists.
But Comfort wants more attention, and it seems that he can’t get any from serious people. So he’s reverting to his early days as a street preacher — he’s screaming in the streets. Yes, Comfort has issued a press release: Filmmaker Ray Comfort Taunts Richard Dawkins to “Come out of Hiding”.
This is the way great science is done, and it’s exciting! The title of the press release implies that Richard Dawkins is frightened and hiding in a bunker somewhere. Here are some excerpts from the Banana Man’s challenge, with bold font added by us:
A Los Angeles filmmaker who produced a 36-minute documentary on evolution, is taunting Richard Dawkins to come out of hiding and address his flock because he says they are “in tatters” after seeing his movie. Professor Dawkins has on three occasions tweeted about the movie to his 794,000 followers, but has not addressed the one question raised by the controversial documentary.
What’s the question that Dawkins won’t address? The press release tells us:
The best-selling author and co-host of a TV program that airs in over 120 countries said, “The professor can easily debunk the movie by coming out publicly and giving scientific evidence for evolution, but he won’t, because he can’t. This is because there isn’t any, as we clearly show in the movie. Thousands of furious atheists have vented their anger on YouTube because they can’t provide scientific evidence for the theory, and they desperately need an affirming word from above.”
We’re all desperate for Dawkins to emerge from his secret hideaway and tell us he has some evidence, but he won’t do it. He’s afraid!
There’s more to the press release — mostly its Comfort puffing himself up — so we’ll skip to this near the end:
Comfort predicts that Richard Dawkins will “revert to his usual name-calling, because he is bankrupt of scientific evidence to back up his flimsy beliefs.”
Wow! Powerful stuff indeed. Who will be Comfort’s next target — Stephen Hawking? Oh wait, he’s already done that — see Food Fight: Ray Comfort v. Stephen Hawking.
With this press release, the evolution debate is over. Comfort has won. Maybe we’ll just fold up our blog and retire from the arena.
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Ray’s standards for evidence are fluid to say the least. He expects science to witness the birth of a crocoduck as proof of evo-devo but has no similar demands for evidence of his invisible sky buddy.
It’s pretty tough to satisfy a demand when that demand is ridiculous and built of straw. No matter how often Comfort has been educated, he insists on pushing a version of evolution no sane person would imagine.
Remember the Happy Days episode when Tom Hanks comes charging into Arnold’s in a karate outfit to challenge the Fonz? Can you pick whether the bananaman is Hanks or Winkler?
Wouldn’t a Crocaduck disprove evolution? Shouldn’t the idiot with the banana fetish be looking for a Crocaduck?
Where’s the dirtaAdam? The RibaEve?
Let’s see. Richard Dawkins: ~795 thousand followers on Twitter. Ray Comfort? 28.5k. Yeah. Dawkins is shuddering in his hobbit hole about the devastation that Ray is going to do.
And on the lighter side of today’s news, take a look at Ray Comfort’s Twitter page. Take a clooooooose look at the image of him at the altar. What’s on the altar? Yes, we appear to have an open Bible. But what do I see to the right of the Bible? Could that be (dunh dunh DUUUUUNH) money? As in “the root of all evil”? Could his outstretched arms be saying, “I need you all to give me THIIIIIS much money, cuz this bill up here on the altar is getting reeeeally lonely”?
It’s time for RayCom to be treated with benign dismissal by the scientific community. Nonchalantly acknowledge his not a shred of evidence for evolution position,for as laughable as it is,and simply point out how that leaves no basis for any more discussion about him. Next. There isn’t a thing to be gained in granting him access to anyone important with recording equipment,as shown by his constant clipped,edited,mined,selective,and skewed replays. Hambone is slipping,RayCom,SyeTen,possibly a couple more I’m convinced will fade,and be pushed out by the much more intelligent people that have to be getting tired of these scams being run to support what they believe in.
I suspect that people like Ray Comfort deny evolution because their own naïvely turgid ideas don’t evolve at all, ever. Their ideas perpetuate due to both a lack of fresh “memetic material” and the absence of an environment harsh enough to cull the shabbiest of those ideas. I think these people also extrapolate this lack of intellectual evolution on their own part to the status of a universal truth about biology.
Ray Comfort is the banana-brained court jester of creationism — except, he himself doesn’t appear to know it. It’s hilarious how obviously sincere is his belief that his puerile babble adds real value to the debate. Equally amusing is his habit of imagining that any and all criticisms are indicators of his singular success. Rubber crocoduck syndrome, anyone?
Because Dawkins has never offered any scientific proof of evolution. I mean, it’s not like he’s ever published a book on the subject.
Or made tv programs that look into the proof either.