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Ray comfort "apologizes" then thanks atheists for his fame?
Fri, 2010-01-15 16:43 — SapientHis latest video entices Dawkins to a debate for $20,000. The debate is suggested after showing a strawman that Comfort created with the help of footage featuring Ben Stein from Expelled. While Ray makes the claim that it's atheists who made him famous, I noticed he's still paying us for the attention. Did you know he paid RRS an appearance fee for the Nightline debate? He's willing to pay Dawkins $20,000? Will it still be atheists that made him famous... or donations from Christians that end up in Richard Dawkins hands? What about the purchases and donations that led to the money that RRS was given for destroying Ray and Kirk on Nightline? It would seem that if his logic was correct, than we must also assume it was Christians who supported the actions of the Rational Response Squad; if Dawkins accepts the donation/challenge (which he shouldn't), it'll be Christians financially supporting his activities for some time.
We were alerted to this issues after reading the following blog from R. Cameron:
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YahooRay Comfort plagiarizes his Charles Darwin introduction...
Tue, 2009-12-15 02:37 — SapientDid you expect honesty from Ray Comfort? Shame on you! His introduction was full of shit and had no bearing in scientific fact so it only makes sense that he'd steal a bunch of material in order to fill up his introduction.
See our two part debunking of Ray Comforts Origin of Species introduction here and here for part 2.
Ray Comfort stole portions of work from Dr. Stan Guffey and his "A Brief History of Charles Darwin."
Dawkins calls Ray Comfort an idiot
Wed, 2009-11-25 14:12 — wotmwatchdog.orgCNN has asked Richard Dawkins what he thinks about the new Ray Comfort addendum to Origin of Species.
And referring to U.S.-based evangelist Ray Comfort, who argues that the universe and life is the result of an intelligent creator, Dawkins said: "There is no refutation of Darwinian evolution in existence. If a refutation ever were to come about, it would come from a scientist, and not an idiot.
"Hunches aren't interesting, hunches aren't valuable. What's important is scientific evidence. It doesn't matter what mister whatever his name is, Comfort ... what his opinion is. It doesn't matter what my opinion is. What matters is evidence. And the evidence is clear. The evidence is in favor of evolution."
See the entire story along with a video, at CNN.
Ray Comfort is a liar
Mon, 2009-11-23 17:26 — wotmwatchdog.org"I am amazed at the lack of coherent logic in Ray's arguments. Lets start with the basics, "If you have lied, then you are a liar". According to the dictionary, a liar is, "A person who tells lies" -Random House. "Tells lies", not "have lied". (To be fair, WordNet does define it as someone who has lied, but not MW, AH, or others.) That seems to me to be a deliberate and ongoing distortion of a fact that is repeated by Ray rather consistently. Therefore, Ray is a liar because he continually lies, (about the definition of liar) not because he has "lied".
To illustrate the idiocy of his argument, one only has to take it to the obvious conclusion. Did you ever wet your pants? (even when you were a baby?) Then you are a pants wetter. Ever get drunk? If so, you must be an alcoholic. And I don't even want to consider what the process of being born makes me! The logic just doesn't hold up. And the funny part, since he is lying to get people to believe in G-d, then he is lying in G-d's name, and is therefore committing blasphemy in the process." - David
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CNN's special on the Ray Comfort addition to Origin of Species
Sat, 2009-11-21 05:38 — SapientRay Comfort (like many dishonest creationists before him) claims that Darwin and Hitler have an undeniable link. With that level of honesty I might as well claim that Comfort has an undeniable link to Hitler as both of them used religion for their gain.
Talkorigins.org has a great piece on this old tired argument that Hitler is "undeniably" linked to Darwin. READ MORE »
My buddy Shaun writes about the Ray Comfort Origin of Species project
Wed, 2009-11-18 23:47 — SapientThunderf00t stoops to my level with Ray Comfort
Wed, 2009-11-18 00:03 — SapientThunderf00t has done a great job over the years on his youtube channel. We coordinated efforts closely during the Kent Hovind extravaganza 2 years ago. A few months ago he sat down with the Ray Comfort.
Here is the entire 10 video playlist. Grab your favorite beverage and prepare for fun...
My statement to a Philly paper about Ray Comfort
Tue, 2009-11-17 00:09 — SapientI had a request today for a statement from the Philadelphia City Paper about the upcoming visit of WOTM to The University of Pennsylvania campus. Here is my statement:
I am not worried about the mission to distribute revised Origin of Species books from the Way of the Master team at The University of Pennsylvania. The students at UPENN are some of the brightest in our country. They surely have accumulated enough knowledge of the sciences at this point to see Ray Comforts destruction of The Origin of Species for what it is, a desperate attempt for attention by an ailing Christian movement as it slowly breathes it's last breaths. I hope the students at UPENN are familiar enough with evolution and natural selection to understand that it's verified every day by scientists across the planet in numerous fields of science. READ MORE »
A Reply to Ray Comforts Special Introduction to the Origin of Species (Part2)
Thu, 2009-11-12 23:31 — WatcherDuring the period thatpaleontologists call the Cambrian Explosion, virtually all the major animal forms appeared suddenly without any trace of less complex ancestors. No newbody plans have come into existence since then. - Comfort
One wonders exactly what is meant by "major animal forms". The highest taxonomic rank below kingdom (all animals are in the kingdom Animalia) is Phylum. Some animal Phyla originated before the Cambrian such as Cnidarians and Sponges among others. Many other animal Phyla did not appear until much later in the fossil record such as Onychophora. It is suggested by some studies that only eleven out of thirty two animal phyla first appeared during this time period. In any case the more "major form"Kingdom Plantae did not originate until after the Cambrian Explosion. Since the Cambrian this one kingdom has evolved to include more than three hundred thousand species of plants. In addition to this the remains ofcreatures from the Cambrian Explosion such as Anomalocaris and Opabinia areclearly transitional fossils between arthropods and lobopods.
Despite all of these "major animal forms" that came into existence during that time, all of the animals most familiar to us such as mammals, birds, reptiles, insects, etc. did not appear until much, much later. READ MORE »
A Reply to Ray Comforts Special Introduction to the Origin of Species (Part1)
Wed, 2009-11-11 23:59 — WatcherRay Comfort's introduction to Darwin's On the Origin of Species is standard creationist arguments that have been used over and over again against his caricature of evolution. First and foremost nonscientific layman of this sort seem completely unwilling or perhaps incapable of understanding the difference between something that has been proven as fact (evolution) and something that is continuously tested as a theory of how that fact occurs (natural selection). Whether evolution has occured is supported by an overwhelming body of evidence and has been established with utmost certainty. Evidence for this has accumulated from all biological disciplines including paleontology, comparative anatomy, biogeography, embryology, biochemistry, molecular genetics, and others. The evolution of organisms is universally accepted by biological scientists. "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution" (Dobzansky 1973). READ MORE »
