January 22, 2009 | Filed under: Uncategorized | Posted by: Jean Poole
Ray Comfort is perhaps best known for this educational video featuring Born-Again Christian star Kirk Cameron, in which they demonstrate the glory of God’s creation using a banana. Known as “The Atheist’s Nightmare”, this easily-swallowed fruit (no, I don’t mean Bruce Vilanche!) proves the brilliance of God’s designs beyond the shadow of a doubt:
This video will be the “Featured Video” on the home page for the next week, in honor of Ray’s latest venture!
Ray has expanded beyond YouTube with his LivingWaters ministry, which has spawned an incredible new website, http://www.pulltheplugonatheism.com. This site provides articles for free and books for sale, all for your edification and to aid you in witnessing to the Hellbound God-mockers!
Now, Ray has a multitude of brilliant articles which will doubtless leave atheists slack-jawed . . . well, more so than usual. Here’s one example of his flawless arguments:
For many years I have appealed to the logic of everything material necessitating a Creator. When I have done this, I have noticed that atheists run to a predictable refuge. See if you can see how they deal with it:
“If some sort of evidence turned up that a conscious entity was behind the creation of the universe itself . . . then it would simply open up this HUGE question of what this entity is and where it came from.”
“So Ray, what is the explanation of where God came from?”
“If everything needs a maker, who made the maker?”
“Alright, I’ll bite. Okay, a creator created the Universe. Where did this creator come from?”
“You don’t believe what you say Ray, as soon as you extend your metaphor to it’s logical conclusion . . . Then the Creator needs a Creator . . .”
It is scientifically impossible for nothing to create everything. If nothing created everything, then the “nothing” isn’t nothing. It is something, because it had the amazing ability to create everything. Only an unscientific ignoramus would hold to the thought that nothing created everything. We have the dilemma of having everything, so we therefore have to come to the conclusion that something made it. Whatever it was, it had to be non-material (unseen), eternal (without beginning or end), and it had to be omnipotent (have the amazing ability to create everything from nothing). If the professing atheist concedes to such basic logic (which he must or he reveals that he is unscientific and unintelligent), then he’s not an atheist. He is in truth an agnostic (“One who is skeptical about the existence of God but does not profess true atheism.”). He is someone who believes that there was a creative force that brought everything into existence, but for some reason he denies that it was God.
See? Intelligent people can’t be atheists! Ray has proven it, beyond the shadow of a doubt!
[Ray Comfort says that] “An atheist is someone who believes that nothing made everything.”
Then he goes on and on with fallacious analogies: “Imagine if I said my latest book came from nothing.” “Imagine if I say that I don’t believe a builder built my house.” It’s quite sad.
His analogies are foolish. We know how houses and books are made, so he’s peddling a counterfactual claim. We don’t know all the processes that went into the appearance of the universe — and that “we” includes Ray Comfort — so it is an open question. I’m quite sure it wasn’t his imaginary Christian god, since there is no reason to consider the accounts of his faith to be accurate.
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And of course, he doesn’t bother with this problem: who made god? I can guess how he’d respond: there was no “who”, and god wasn’t “made”. At which time we do a little judo move and point out that the universe wasn’t “made” by a “who”, either.
But Mr. Myers, Ray addressed that very concern in the article shown above!
What I love about the Atheist’s Nightmare is that natural bananas are pretty much inedible. They have been cultivated by man to be this perfect fruit.
But if God hadn’t created man they would never have learned how to cultivate bananas in such a lovely way.
I heard that the forbidden fruit was actually the Banana. Before the fall they were as they are today, but after the fall they grew thick rinds and were not very tasty.
I’ve also heard that the forbidden fruit was Liberace…
Keep up the good work. I gave my life to Jesus ten minutes ago and I’m happy to say that I’m no longer a triple amputee. I have pictures to prove it!!!!
As an atheist who agrees with the basic premise that nothing cant make something (to use such simplistic terms) this does not at all make me believe in a god. Thus I am still an atheist.
For example the big bang theory, there was surely energy or mass prior to this for there to be able to be a big bang, but it does not mean a god did it. We do see that energy can be converted into mass with experiments using particle colliders, in terms even believers can understand and given your love for bananas it is akin to throwing two bananas together and ending up with the pieces for more than 2 bananas.
That’s just brilliant PM.
I like it.
What I love about the Atheist’s Nightmare is that natural bananas are pretty much inedible. They have been cultivated by man to be this perfect fruit.
But if God hadn’t created man they would never have learned how to cultivate bananas in such a lovely way.
I heard that the forbidden fruit was actually the Banana. Before the fall they were as they are today, but after the fall they grew thick rinds and were not very tasty.
I’ve also heard that the forbidden fruit was Liberace…
Keep up the good work. I gave my life to Jesus ten minutes ago and I’m happy to say that I’m no longer a triple amputee. I have pictures to prove it!!!!
As an atheist who agrees with the basic premise that nothing cant make something (to use such simplistic terms) this does not at all make me believe in a god. Thus I am still an atheist.
For example the big bang theory, there was surely energy or mass prior to this for there to be able to be a big bang, but it does not mean a god did it. We do see that energy can be converted into mass with experiments using particle colliders, in terms even believers can understand and given your love for bananas it is akin to throwing two bananas together and ending up with the pieces for more than 2 bananas.