{"id":4292,"date":"2007-08-23T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T12:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/08\/the-banana-and-peanut-butter-arguments-on-youtube\/"},"modified":"2007-08-23T12:02:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T12:02:00","slug":"the-banana-and-peanut-butter-arguments-on-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/08\/the-banana-and-peanut-butter-arguments-on-youtube.html","title":{"rendered":"The Banana and Peanut Butter Arguments on YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

In my religion and science class today I mentioned the Kirk Cameron-sponsored board game about evolution and intelligent design (which, for him at least, is the same thing as anti-evolutionary young earth creationism). Let me share, for those who may not have seen it, the infamous \u2018banana argument\u2019 Kirk lent his support to, as well as two informative and entertaining critiques of it, once again all on YouTube. I posted these before on my old blog<\/a>, with additional commentary. I share them again for the benefit of my current religion and science students, and because some of them are just so funny!<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9zwbhAXe5yk<\/a>\n<\/iframe>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Atheists nightmare debunked. Ray Comfort\/Kirk cameron\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aLqQttJinjo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>The last one has at least a couple of inaccuracies, but is included because at the end it shows how the cultivated banana differs from the naturally-occurring wild banana, and thus provides evidence of evolution!<\/p>\n<p>Once you\u2019ve finished with the \u201cbanana argument\u201d, you can move on to the claim that <em>peanut butter<\/em> is also \u201cthe atheist\u2019s nightmare\u201d, in another clip with Chuck Missler showing off his scientific ignorance. 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