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<\/a>The title of this post is an intentional pun, since it could be a reference to the bananas belonging to Ray Comfort or to the fact that he is bananas. Both are relevant, since he is famous for introducing the laughable \u201cbanana argument\u201d into the discourse of apologetics. More recently, he helpfully illustrated that scientific evidence, even scientific evidence from the last century, is simply too dangerous and too harmful to young-earth creationist pseudoscience for it to be safe to expose such people to it. And thus Comfort has offered a bogus edition of Charles Darwin\u2019s On The Origin Of Species<\/em> which offers a dubious introduction and leaves out parts of the book the argument of which might have been too persuaded. I still can\u2019t figure out how many Christians, whose Bibles contain warnings about teachers who \u201ctickle the ears\u201d and say what they want to hear<\/a>, can so persistently assume such warnings are about others, their opponents, but not relevant to themselves. Much contemporary Christianity is characterized by limiting one\u2019s exposure to any viewpoint that doesn\u2019t agree with what you already think \u2013 an approach that obviously makes learning impossible.<\/p>\nGenie Scott has offered a response to Comfort<\/a>. And if you want some responses to the banana argument, I\u2019ve shared a number of those before<\/a>. I also shared before a Romanian\u2019s reply to Comfort and his sidekick Kirk Camerson<\/a>. <\/p>\n Let me also emphasize that Charles Darwin\u2019s classic On The Origin Of Species<\/em> is, on the one hand, superseded by the vast amount of further knowledge about biology, paleontology and genetics that has accumulated since he wrote. But on the other hand, those who want to read it can download it for free from the Internet Archive<\/a> or Google Books<\/a> and thus have no reason to read Ray Comfort\u2019s rewritten \u201cConservative Bible Project\u201d edition of the book.<\/p>\n The title of this post is an intentional pun, since it could be a reference to the bananas belonging to Ray Comfort or to the fact that he is bananas. Both are relevant, since he is famous for introducing the laughable \u201cbanana argument\u201d into the discourse of apologetics. More recently, he helpfully illustrated that scientific […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n