Kirk Cameron's Bad Science
Watch Kirk’s BFF Ray Comfort make an ass of himself by using a banana to prove the existence of a divine creator.
Ace and Gary also illustrate a complete misunderstanding of atheism. An atheist is not afraid to believe that a god may exist, they simply have no reason to believe that one does. If a banana, or any other phallic fruit, for that matter, were to absolutely prove the existence of a deity, most atheist would be willing and eager to accept this new information.
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Actually this banana info is wrong. There are thousands of varieties of bananas, not one wild variety and one cultivar derived from it. That’s just wrong.
In fact, about a hundred years ago, the United Fruit Company (today known as Chiquita) had created a monoculture of a single variety of banana across its many banana plantations in South America. Unfortunately, a fungus set in to which that particular species of banana was vulnerable, and that type of banana virtually ceased to exist. UFC had to find another different, but similar, species of banana to raise and sell to the world, which is the variety of banana you have been eating your entire life. The bananas we eat today have only been cultivated since the early twentieth century, and under the circumstances, UFC did not have any time to play around with hybridizing them. Incidentally, the same thing has begun to happen again right now, and very soon, the bananas we are used to will disappear from supermarket produce shelves. Banana growers such as Chiquita and Del Monte are right now searching for yet another “wild” species of banana that is suitable for supermarket shelves. Once again, they don’t have time to hybridize.
Don’t assume that just because the bananas we’re used to seem very user friendly, and other species of bananas don’t, that humans necessarily domesticated the one’s we’re used to from the ones we’re not. In the case of corn and apples, that may be true, but in the case of bananas and potatoes, it isn’t. So, in this case, the argument of the makers of this video is just as fallacious as the argument that Ray is making.
Thanks for the clarification, Jay! We really appreciate the info.