I might have been slacking off, but Ray sure hasn’t
So it’s been a while. Mainly because I’ve had other things to do, and because I managed to break free from the enormous time-sink that is Ray Comfort’s blog. However, it’s summer, and work is slow, so just because I can I decided to go have a visit and see what’s up. Well, this was:
[After quoting a long list of evidence for evolution] Then, after such impressive proof, Froggie throws down the gauntlet and says, “Go ahead, falsify one even one of thousands of established facts supporting evolution. Go ahead.”
So let’s go ahead just a little and examine the list of “facts.” How about “human tails”? Where on earth (or in the fossil record) are humans with tails? We don’t even have a “tail bone” as some maintain.
Ok, so at this point I’m straight back to when I first read about Ray Comfort. I cannot believe he is anything but a fraud. You can’t possibly be this ignorant, and still maintain authority, can you?
Well, the straight fact is that humans with tails are born from time to time even today, and we do have parts of a tail bone left. In most people, it doesn’t take the shape of an actual tail, but if you ever fall down and hit the part of your lower back where that tail would be, don’t tell me it doesn’t hurt more than it should had we not even had hints of a tail bone left. Here’s the Wikipedia article on human tails. Here’s a site with plenty of images of human tails.
Now, Ray, want to revise your statement on the existence of the tail bone and tails in humans? Of course that, that would require you admitting you’re wrong.
Ray continues:
Ditto with legged whales, seacows and snakes with legs. Snakes had legs . . . did they talk? Then there’s the “ape-humans” (the missing link), and the “reptile birds” (that would be the belief that chickens were once dinosaurs). Sure.
Yes, Ray, if you close your eyes and cover your ears, all those fossils of legged whales magically disappear. There are both snakes with legs, and lizards without legs (the latter is actually quite common here in Sweden). The “missing link” is your own strawman imagination. You can’t keep getting closer to the middle between black and white, and still refuse to call it gray. As for reptile birds… Again, if you want to ignore hard evidence, that’s your problem. Ignoring it, however, does not make it go away for the rest of the world.
Of course when listing evidence of evolution, always be sure to drop in a few unpronounceables, such as pharyngeal, pseudogenes, endogenous retroviruses, anatomical parahomology and suboptimal, and you will impress the simple, because you have just evidenced your intelligence.
Maybe Ray can’t pronounce “suboptimal”, but that hardly disproves evolution as a fact (but does hint at why Ray has such a hard time grasping elementary school biology). And if it weren’t for the fact that any attempt to simplify the evidence is only met with even greater lack of understanding (a feat in itself), we wouldn’t have to write such long lists of incomprehensible and unpronounceable (say those two words quickly three times in a row) terms and names.
The rest are winding rabbit trails that I don’t have time to follow. They lead nowhere. It’s about as powerful as me listing all 66 books of the Bible and thinking that I have just proven the existence of God.
But… That is what you do, Ray. You keep telling us God exists because God says God exists in the book God wrote. That’s essentially the same as just listing the 66 books of the Bible. Did we just have a breakthrough here? Did Ray just unintentionally understand (the only way to make Ray understand anything, by the way) how flawed his entire position is?
Even if he did, he’ll repress it. After all, that’s what he does best.