Comical stupidity

[haggholm]

Ray Comfort, the creationist dimwit behind the hilarious Atheist’s Nightmare video (and occasional enigma in the sense of Poe’s Law), has written a book that has garnered some pretty scathing reviews. He feels that the opposition is easily explained:

I simply expose atheistic evolution for the unscientific fairy tale that it is, and I do it with common logic. I ask questions about where the female came from for each species. Every male dog, cat, horse, elephant, giraffe, fish and bird had to have coincidentally evolved with a female alongside it (over billions of years) with fully evolved compatible reproductive parts and a desire to mate, otherwise the species couldn't keep going. Evolution has no explanation for the female for every species in creation.

Most people who make strawman arguments at least try to make the strawman resemble the real argument. This person apparently believes that someone claims that males and females evolved independently. Alternatively, he realises how stupid an idea this is, but aims the book at an audience who will accept that argument at face value. Either way, we have a prime example of truly comical stupidity, whether in the author or the readers who buy the book; hopefully the former, as I would not wish such an epidemic of irredeemable cretinism to be widely spread.

Comments

[renatus.livejournal.com]

Common logic. Uh huh. I also like the subtle misogyny in his argument what with the insinuating females are different subspecies or something.

I guess he never got the memo that zygotes start off sexually undifferentiated, or about the reptiles that will shift sex in a population of only females, or... oh, never mind. Man's an idiot.

[kokopellinelli]

I...uh...

What? Does he even understand what's really being discussed?

Also, Kirk Cameron/banana video? Um, okay. I wonder how this guy would explain something like the coconut, which is extremely hard to get into without the proper tools.

[petter-haggholm.livejournal.com]

Hell, bananas are bad enough. This has been pointed out in various other YouTube videos, but the bananas that we are used to are not bananas as nature produced them, but rather a cultivated crop—bananas have been selectively grown and cultured for at least seven thousand, maybe as much as ten thousand years! We are used to large, fleshy bananas with no hard seeds, but a wild banana looks like this:

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Inside_a_wild-type_banana.jpg)

The bananas that we eat are, in fact, a single clone (colloquially, clones of a single plant), propagated by planting offshots or tissue cultures; this species could not survive without human action.

[kokopellinelli]

I have to say, that wild banana does not look appetizing in the least!

Why are some people so damn dumb?

[somewhither.livejournal.com]

I wonder... when these various and sundry couples just blink into existence, is there a *bloink!* sound? I certainly hope so!