The Atheist Blogger

I really had hoped to write something interesting for the 100th post on this blog (yay for the first milestone!), but this just appeared in my feed reader and I had to post it.

If you don’t know who Ray Comfort is, he is the guy behind the infamous banana argument / atheist’s nightmare:

He also had a hand in the not-so-famous but equally amusing “crocoduck”:

The banana argument is meant to prove creation / intelligent design since Ray claims something as easy to use as the banana couldn’t have evolved by chance. The problem with this explanation is that wild bananas actually look like this:

They only look like they do today because of horticulture; years and years of cross breeding by humans, not God. So +10 points for a funny argument, but -1,000,000 for not actually researching what he was talking about.

As for our friend the crocoduck, it was a poor attempt to disprove Evolution, saying that there has never been any transitional form between a duck and a crocodile. Of course there never has been a transitional form because neither creature evolved from the other and they are both living descendants of some extinct ancestor which was probably neither a bird nor a reptile.

If you doubt many arguments could beat that, then listen up. Ray’s latest blog post is entitled “Thank God for Science” which is ironic in itself since Ray has the scientific knowledge of a 2 year old. The first couple of sentences in this post defy all belief:

Light is invisible. We can’t see it.

As soon as I read that, I had to clean my glasses to make sure I wasn’t misreading something. For someone who claims that he can debunk Evolution, one of the most researched and valid theories in existence, he certainly fails at simple physics.

If anything, light is the only thing we can see. Everything we see through our eyes (trees, the sky, my laptop in front of me) is through light reflecting off said objects and going into the retina to be processed by the brain. Technically speaking all objects aren’t visible at all. They aren’t emitting any kind of energy we can detect through sight. The only reason we can see them (and therefore perceive them as visible objects) is because the light from a source (lightbulb, Sun) reflects off them.

The great part of his post is that he backs it all up with references from the Bible, inadvertently proving that the Bible is wrong through contradiction:

God is light (see 1 John 1:5, Revelation 21:23), and the Scriptures tell us that He is invisible to the human eye (Colossians 1:15, 1 Timothy 1:17)

The sad thing is that it doesn’t take much to verify what he is saying as wrong. If only he had looked up the Wikipedia page for “Light” beforehand to make sure his “science” was actually science, he would have been greeted with the line:

Light, or visible light, is electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength that is visible to the human eye.

Now if he talked about the entire electromagnetic spectrum he might actually have got somewhere, since most of it is “invisible”. However, nowhere in the Bible does it say “God is Radio, Microwave, Infrared, Ultraviolet, X-Ray, and Gamma Ray” so he wouldn’t have much or an arguing point.

Posts like these just prove that people like Ray should stick to the preaching and stay far far away from science. Science and religion are for the most part incompatible, so you should stick to what you know best until the day you finally realise your entire life has been devoted to false teachings; and the people you have been so vehemently arguing against are the ones who have the actual evidence and research to back up their claims.