Ray Comfort Redefines Science
It has often been wondered if Ray Comfort is simply ignorant of science, willfully ignorant of science, or simply lying for Jesus. We now have an answer; he is part of the third group.
For anyone who took Biology at high school, you will know that the Taxonomic rank is the way scientists organise the tree of Life. It has many models, both simple and complex. For the purposes of this article, we will discuss the most common and simple version:
Domain -> Kingdom -> Phylum -> Class -> Order -> Family -> Genus -> Species
Using this method of classification, we can show where humans come on the tree:
Eukarya (Domain) -> Animalia (Kingdom) -> Chordata (Phylum) -> Mammalia (Class) -> Primates (Order) -> Hominidae (Family) -> Homo (Genus) -> H. sapiens (Species)
Ray Comfort however, has a different idea of how this all works. It is great because his classification is so much easier to understand!
Wolves, coyotes and German shepherds are of the same species (the canine family or “kind”), but they can’t breed with cats or tigers (which are the felidae family or “kind”).
So that classification would probably go something like this:
GOD -> “Family Species Kind” hybrid
At least we have a reason why Ray Comfort doesn’t understand Evolution. When you redefine basic tenets of Biology so that the theory of Evolution collapses, of course you will think that it doesn’t work! Using Ray Comfort’s methodology I will now debunk a couple of “popular” scientific notions.
- 1/0 now equals 9,999,999 since I reckon the whole concept of “Infinity” is so flawed we just need to use a really big number to represent it.
- Think we can’t travel faster than the speed of light? Think again! Now that I’ve redefined the speed of light to approximately 30kph (in a vacuum), I’m pretty sure we can beat it! Welcome to the new world of interstellar travel!!!
- The boiling point of water will now be set to 50 degrees so it takes half the time to boil an egg!
They may sound crazy ideas, but this is exactly what Ray is doing when it comes to the theory of Evolution. You can redefine as many things as you like and eventually an idea will sound impossible, but it doesn’t make it false. Evolution is supported by evidence and the evidence doesn’t suddenly change. It will always remain. As new and different evidence comes into play, the theory might change, but the fact of evolution will not.
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Very nicely put. I appreciate the post! I don’t know how Ray Comfort can say such things with a straight face.
Being fairly new to the online atheist community, I have to admit that I have no idea who this Ray Comfort is, but now I’m not sure I want to know.
I had to read Ray’s quotation a couple of times but, yeah, he did just equate “family,” “species,” and “kind.”
Added to the new blog carnival Carnival of Evolution #1
I think it’s pretty clear this man is reveling in the attention he is getting from atheists.
I mean, it’s *beyond* him convincing fundies – his agenda is to *provoke* and keep himself in the limelight.
Why feed that?
Hm… I’d like to see a tiger breeding with a common cat. Surely they can, since they’re of the same specie.
Now seriously, the concept of specie is even much complex than the breeding thing, having to consider molecular biology. But of course, if you still want to believe in religion, this doesn’t matter and you will think whatever you want.
You can argue about this and that about the biggest lie in human history -evolution, but in the end what will you say to God on judgement day? Repent and asked Jesus to lead you life. Put your trust in the Saviour.
Well Evolution isn’t a lie seeing as we’ve seen it in action and have absolutely tonnes of evidence of it.
What will I say to God? I guess that depends on the God (if it exists). I have several answers prepared for different Gods. Of course, I don’t believe in any of them so the question is quite silly.
Maxwell,
Some of us believe the Bible and your saviour are the biggest lies ever told.
I am always amused when religious folk ask me "what I will say to god?" or tell me that "god believes in me" or "Even if I don't believe in god he can still send me to hell." They seem so smug as if these arguments, if they can be called that, make sense. I am sure they are entirely reasonable to a believer, but to an atheist they are just silly.
Anyone worried about hell or what they would say to god is, by definition, not an atheist. It is like saying "what if you are wrong about Santa? You will get coal in your stocking." Actually that makes more sense, because I have seen evidence of Santa Claus. Presents under the tree, reindeer, the cookies and milk I left out for him as a kid were always consumed. Admittedly all of these things can be explained but they are still significantly more convincing than any evidence ever presented for the existence of god.
I am not afraid of what god will do because there is no god. I am also unafraid of alien abduction, Vampire bites, and Bigfoot attacks. Even though these things are all more likely than god I don't believe in them.
Well said, RYK. And btw, any god whose modus operandi is to send people to a torture chamber for eternity is a sadist and evil. He doesn't deserve respect. I will not believe in something that is completely without evidence because of silly fear tactics. Try again, Maxwell.
What will I say to God on judgement day? All depends what God I meet, If it is the fundamentalist Christian God then i'll ask it "why are you so evil"?
I'd say the same thing to your god that you will say to the SFM: "oops."
*FSM
There is no god. Get over it. Think for yourself instead of blindly believing in fairy tales passed down by primitive people who couldn't understand how things worked and created 'god' to explain it so they could sleep at night.