Darwinaia (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Well I’m back in the swing of things after celebrating Thanksgiving with the traditional holiday consumption of everybody’s favorite derived theropod, and I finally got my hands on the Ray Comfort version of Darwin’s Origin of Species. I could hardly wait to read through it! Comfort added a fifty page Creationist introduction to Darwin’s classic [...]
Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Ray Comfort, plagiarist and creationist evangelist, is currently (9:30AM) distributing a modified version of The Origin of the Species at the University of Regina campus (and many other North American colleges and universities). I spoke with a man who handed me a copy, and a copy to a professor on his way to a class. [...]
Thoughts from Kansas (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
It's honestly hard to know what to make of Ray Comfort. First he says bananas are proof of intelligent design because of how well they fit in your hand. Then he retracts the claim, accepting that the domestic banana is, in fact, a product of extensive artificial selection. Then he backs off and insists "There isn’t any evidence that the banana has changed its shape in the last 2,000...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Hemant Mehta does a fascinating interview with Ray Comfort, not about Creationism, but about Comfort's personal philosophy and the way he has gone about promoting Creationism and Christianity in general. Comfort, you'll recall, is the guy who tried to prove the existence of a benevolent interventionist God by appealing to the human-convenient shape of a banana--a plant that's been...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Hemant Mehta does a fascinating interview with Ray Comfort, not about Creationism, but about Comfort's personal philosophy and the way he has gone about promoting Creationism and Christianity in general. Comfort, you'll recall, is the guy who tried to prove the existence of a benevolent interventionist God by appealing to the human-convenient shape of a banana--a plant that's been...
Cynical-C Blog (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
I am shocked. Shocked that gambling goes on here: Ray ”Bananaman” Comfort is giving away more than 100,000 copies of Charles Darwin’s work at 100 top US universities. His parasitic introduction is available here. The part dealing with Charles Darwin’s biography is actually rather good – almost as if he’d ...
Windy Sydney (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Let me start this list with a video targeted at those who buy into Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron's bullshit. I loved this: Next we have one of my favorite youtube personalities also giving her take on Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron. I was applauding her as I watched this. This girl is smart and straight to the point... which is something most religions and their clergy are not . Next one...
Greg Laden's Blog (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Hey, it turns out Zicam works! Oh, no, wait, it just causes you to lose your sense of smell. Maybe. --> New Zicam study shows possible mechanism for anosmia YA Virgin Mary Sighting --> O Most Holy Pancake! Is that a banana in your pocket, or are you just some kind of freakin' moron? --> Ray Comfort, geocentrist? Read the comments on this post...
Windy Sydney (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Yet another video from Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort trying to get people to ignore facts and "think from the heart." Don't listen to your head, folks. Pray for that discerning spirit witness. You know, if I were to sit down and pray to a God and ask if a banana were a prophet and I got a warm and fuzzy feeling about it, what would they say? Of course they would say I was out of my...
Memoirs of a Skepchick (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Talks from PZ Myers, DJ Grothe, Richard Carrier, Vic Stenger, Robert Price, Joe Nickell, and of course my good self are now appearing on Hambone Productions’ YouTube page . Here’s the first of five parts of my talk (click through for the rest): And speaking of Skepticon, organizer JT Eberhard let me know that there’s currently an eBay auction for a copy of Ray Comfort’s bastardized Origin of...
The Michigan Daily (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
In last Monday’s issue of the Daily, Ben Caleca wrote a response to Ray Comfort's shenanigans regarding "The Origin of Species” ( Survival of the creationists , 11/23/2009). It's important to note that his actions weren't limited to our own campus: Comfort handed out his augmented “Origin” at dozens of universities across North America.
The Freethinker (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
GUEST blogger Dr Robert Stovold weighs up some Creationist arguments, and finds them wanting. Having tried (and failed) to smuggle Creationism into schools in the guise of “Intelligent Design”, Creationists now have another Trojan Horse strategy – bundling their ideas with Darwin’s masterpiece itself in the form of a Creationist introduction to Darwin’s On the Origin of Species . Ray ”Bananaman” Comfort...
