During the run up to the Reason Rally, Ray Comfort was touting his new movie The Atheist Delusion. This was going to be *the* answer to non-Christians, and it was going to be such a surprise. He was also going to give out $25,000 in Subway gift cards to anyone who would take his book.
Well, the reviews are out and thanks to his fellow Christians, we know that yet again Ray has nothing new and charges $19.95 for the pleasure of discovering this. (it’ll be free in a couple weeks on youtube) The supposed surprise in TAD is the same argument he’s used before, that DNA needs a creator and that creator has to be his version of the Christian god. No evidence for this claim, and a lot of edited interviews that purport to have atheists agreeing with him.
Christians, you have a choice: give Ray more money for a repeat performance in order for him to make more retreads, or perhaps give $20 to an organization that actually does something for someone. Your local food pantry can use that $20, your local animal shelter or human shelter, Oxfam, Doctors without Borders, Smile Train, etc.
Now, what is more beneficial: giving money in an a desperate attempt to shore up ones faith, a faith that supposedly doesn’t need evidence, or giving money to help people who need it? There are piles of evidence that DNA is less than perfect, which makes the Christian god look a little odd for making something not completely efficient and that won’t cause horrible maladies in the creatures that bear it. We also have evidence that DNA and therefore genes have evolved, something that many Christians claim isn’t true. The most recent bit of evidence is the genetic portrait being researched for the last common universal ancestor aka LUCA. What causes problems for theist claims is that they want to benefit from the same science that shows that their myths are wrong. The same science that supports the LUCA is the same science that allows them to have modern foodstuffs, modern medicine, GPS, computers, etc.
Update: now two months and still no sign of the charitable donation of the $25K in Subway gift cards that Comfort said he was going to make since he chose not to give them out at the Reason Rally.
Club Schadenfreude 
We’re a mess of a *design*. Some of us choke to death whilst ingesting food. Serious design flaw. Imagine a car salesman telling you: “when you’re filling up with gas it may just explode and you’ll die. Mmmmmhhhmmmm.
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What’s that from?
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My book 🙂
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and a most amazing book it is!
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Infernal names? I don’t remember that line. Must re-read. Must have been distracted 1st time around.
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I admit, it is a monsoon of adjectives 😉
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You really need to get a copy of The Owner of All Infernal Names by John Z. it’s amazing.
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Ray reminds me of Edgar C. Whisenant who predicted the end of the world (at the hands of his Middle Eastern Christian god, Yhwh) in 1988. He sold 5 million copies of his book 88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988. After that failure, he revised the date to 1989, then 1993, and finally 1994, writing books for each one… and the gullible lapping them up.
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“God does not play dice with the universe” gets taken out of context a lot on Facebook, touted as another ‘Einstein believed in intelligent design!’ argument. He was, of course, talking about quantum mechanics and why he believed everything obeyed known physical laws right down to the quantum level. Something people like Confort could do to sound intelligent would be to say something actually intelligent, instead of misrepresenting other people’s thoughts.
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so….. after all these years, he has found *the* answer to atheism, and, lo and behold, it is just another spin on “look at the trees.”
I don’t know if it speaks more to his creativity or to his followers’ gullibility that he can make millions repeating the exact same thing, only phrased slightly differently each time.
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