Pesharim

Enter Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron with… er… a banana. But wait! Look closely now. This Musacid is more than just the grocery store variety of your tropical yellow fruit: this banana is “The Athiest’s Nightmare!”

….Or so Ray Comfort would like you to think. After all, is not the banana so perfectly crafted to the tactile elements of human perception? And indeed it is, with a non-slip surface, perforated wrapper, and a special tab for easy opening, the banana is no less than the work of supernatural designer? No?

Unfortunately science seems to be detrimental to his example. You see, Ray’s banana isn’t so much of a testimony to God’s handicraft as he would like: indeed the common yellow (“Cavendish”) banana cultivar (a.k.a. “The Atheist’s Nightmare”), testifies only to the fact of artificial selection having bred it from the originally rough and heavily-seeded wild banana, into the hybridized, grocery store variety. A simple Wikipedia search would have availed him much on the matter, as well as a little fore-thought.

Moreover, what of the rest of fruit-kind? Pineapples are rather lacking in all the amenities Ray mentions. Where is the easy open tab and perforated wrapper? And what of it fitting comfortably in my hand?

Just as a piece of advice: don’t play with your food, Ray, and don’t play with science either. If you’re willing to invest the time and research necessary to produce viable arguments, fine. But until then, stop making a mockery out of creationists. Stop polluting the blogosphere with your psuedo-scientific nonsense. As I’ve said before, I respect you as an evangelist, but as far as science -in the opinion of this blogger- you remain no more than a sounding brass and a clanging cymbal.