"Evolutionists have done to science what hypocrites have done to
religion. They leap through the so-called paleontological record like a
Disney cartoon kangaroo, making statements that have more to do with an
overripe imagination rather than with true science. They are
unregulated speculators with ridiculous theories that are leaving the
minds of today’s youth bankrupt, and they need to be held to some sort
of intellectual accountability. I’m just one incompetent idiot that’s
trying to do that."
Ray Comfort, author of You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think, , responding to PZ Meyer's criticism of his questions about the absent mechanism for the evolution of male and female across the entire animal kingdom.
Elephantine errors from Ray Comfort
It would be easy, and perhaps correct, to dismiss this gibberish as just stupid. But that would ignore the dishonesty. Does Ray Comfort believe that real biologists claim that the male and female sexes just happened to evolve independently? That by some astonishing coincidence they just happened to meet and find themselves compatible in all those interesting ways?
A few minutes with any current book on the evolution of sex would disabuse him of his ridiculous notions. Nobody is saying that he has to agree with what he reads in them. But it would save him the embarrassment of blurting out a bizarre notion that nobody with a functioning brain would ascribe to any scientist.
Does Comfort honestly believe that he is accurately describing what scientists say about evolution? I very much doubt that he does, but that doesn't stop him. What he is doing is dishonest and, the last I heard about it, the Bible has something to say about that kind of thing. But Lying For Jesus is too good a moneyspinner to give up, and anyway, people who disagree with Ray aren't Real Christian, so they don't get the benefit of all those rules.
Or maybe Comfort does believe things happened as he says. It would be a stunning proof of creationism if he had some evidence to back it up. But Ray isn't in the evidence business, is he? Who needs evidence when you already know all the answers?
Daniel, you are letting yourself down by promoting a dishonest fool like Ray Comfort. I know we disagree whenever we post here, but I really think you owe yourself better.
Nice link Cin. But while Comfort's argument on elephants is erroneous, his accusations about evolutionary faith are not.
>> AM: But Ray isn't in the evidence business, is he? Who needs evidence when you already know all the answers?
He isn't. He's in the somewhat less valuable, but still valuable, polemics business, kind of like Hitchens, Dennett, and Harris. He's not trying to entirely dismantle evolution, just throw sand in the gears of faith.
And he is dishonest. You seem to be perfectly OK with that.
I have not seen him being honest. I suppose you have some case against him, but I do not immediately believe atheists and leftists who hate him.
You seem perfectly OK accusing me of supporting his dishonesty without having any such knowledge. Shame on you.
Hey, I'm new to this site. I was just randomly thinking about human evolution and remembered reading somewhere a long time ago how it pretty much was "made" up back in the early 1900s. So I was researching about actual evidence of human evolution. Didn't find a darn thing.. look at that.. haha
But I did come across a great older article on this site. I bookmarked this site. Pretty good articles ect.
Anyways, is there a Forum for this website? where do ya'll hang out and chat?
Thanks!
I just posted above. I made an account. continue.
Quite.
If you are not aware of his dishonesty, you either have not troubled yourself to see how he notoriously misrepresents science, or you do not understand the basics of science yourself. Are you saying that you are unaware of what he says about science and what he claims is the position of those who support it? I very mush doubt it. You are unquestionably promoting a charlatan, though it is intriguing that you stop short of defending his absurd positions.
You are squirming, Daniel. You can't escape the fact that you are publicising a deceptive fraud simply because he's agin the other side. That's what they call Lying for Jesus.