Ray "Banana Man" Comfort: When Bananas Aren't Enough

[nothosaur]

At about 1:50, he implies that the banana video that he made with Kirk Cameron was only a badly executed joke. But, in context, it was obviously made as an argument that the banana is evidence of the almighty.

[robvlob]

@MrArpas123 Yes it would be a nightmare if such a tyrannical, pious, pompous, contentious atrocious being ruled over the cosmos & everything in it.

Lets thank God that he doesn't actually exist.

[metzkeb]

OK Ray...How about you debate the existance of God without using the Bible.

[temujin650]

Behold the creationists nightmare. The Banana. The one that has been intentionally evolved via human intervention. Science created that modern banana Ray. The banana is evolution at work. Funny how he's not only wrong, he's actually providing a fantastic example in favor of evolution.

[Phavonic]

There is unfortunately an obvious double ententre here which I'm sure many have remarked. He is suggesting that oral sex and buggery also then have perfect design (green = too early, ditto)

[henchmastaflex]

the watermellon is too big for the human mouth, and the grape is much smaller.

[IamSpydaMic]

"The scientific IMPOSSIBILITY that 'nothing' created 'everything'".

I know, right?

Those silly theists, thinking God took a big lump of nothing and made everything out of it.

Fair use for criticism, Ray, and Dawkins criticised the shit out of it.

[biggingeryeti]

Ray Comfort is a moron and so are the people who follow him.

[xephyr1000]

Fuck off Comfart. You got busted making a fallacious claim about the banana and now you're trying to shift the focus off yourself and pretend Dawkins is steaking from you. My how the pathetic can find ways to fall even farther. Lies just aren't enough for you.

[AtheistSpanker]

Ray Comfort is great.

[BeyondTheIdentity]

why the hell was this idiotic video recommended on my youtube homepage?

[theswedishdude1]

is that hes only debate? "look at this banana ... its looks like a cock witch makes it ironic that in the bible god hates gays... even so i can shove it on my mouth it tastes good and feels good TRY EXPLANING THAT ATHEISTS WHY DOES THIS FEEL SO RIGHT!?" XD

[LTM32893]

The arguments he uses from 1:20 to 1:45 could be used to say god designed the mouth and penis for fellatio, too.

[StateOfTheEnemy]

Comfort knows that Dawkins is parodying him and not stealing his material.

He's just trying to provoke him into a debate.

This clip does show how dishonest they are at WOTM, though.

Comfort has admitted that he didn't realise how different wild bananas are to the ones we eat today and the 'skit' wasn't supposed to be funny.

The crowd in this clip was probably added from separate footage.

[gigisdad]

1:22 Hey looky thar! He Haw Har Har Har..he provin god right thar!!

[haohyou12]

I'm pretty sure Dawkins is mocking Comfort by using his own words (no need to change them, they're comedy gold in perfect idiocy as is) and not, actually, "stealing his routine."

[DarkZholt]

Ray is mad because Dawkins using his routine. Ray is a comedian after all.

[Iksbrown]

I'd love to see Ray Comfort explain the pineapple.

[detahdomo]

@Iksbrown the pineapple exists to test our faith

[hejcoze]

I love how Comfort edited out the part where someone explains that the banana we eat we got thanks to hybridization.

[stevjen1]

No science or peer review states nothing made everything. That is a false statement. Banana man? I prefer to call you fruit loop man.

[wirikuta14]

please PM if this is for real.

[NeutrinoLepton]

Burazeru, ispušio si ga i šta se sad vadiš?

[uneekalex]

Ray Comfort you are an absolute idiot! Try and keep it to yourself instead of dumbing down society by preaching your fairy tales as truth.

[eminescinescu]

Rau Comfort is a brilliant man, he takes his mouth to the hand not his hand to the mouth ... => 1:40

[peope1976]

He challenges someone to argue why they reject the claims of god(s)?

Either you assert what you are arguing about or the guy tells him what he is to refute.

That is the problem with god(s). There is no real evidence presented for even the existence of a god or gods. Not even his idea of a god. Which differs from all the different gods that constitute the variety of gods presented in what is labeled as "christian". (Which btw roman catholic church has the most number of)

[maskofsan1ty]

You could never be a cousin of a banana seeing as the banana isn't a species! No wonder he believes in a God.

[daemonowner]

He sounds so australian.. i know, im a kiwi.

[lucidl]

Does anyone actually believe this is from 2001 lol.. I love how he tries to brush it off as a tongue in cheek routine after everyone laughed at him. And he goes on about lying so much in his videos. Hypocrite!! (notice how some of the audience footage is used twice too!)

[JonesIIRoman]

It's amazing that Comfort doesn't get how homoerotic it really is!

It's sad but funny!

[Dejavu12321]

USE YOUTUBE TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL: God came to the earth as Jesus Christ to live a sinless life worthy of being able to defeat death and paying our price as a sacrifice for all the sins each and every one of us has committed against a just and holy God. He suffered the punishment/wrath of God for all of the worlds sin while he hung on the cross. Place your trust and faith in him. Believe in him and repent of your sins. Once you are truly saved, you become a new creation. Sin isn't worth eternity.

[podoau]

@Dejavu12321 Thats crap. If your jesus paid the price for all our sins, why did he suffer on the cross for only ONE day,, then returned to heaven for eternity ??

If he really paid for our sins, he would be the one in hell forever.

Your jesus is a cheating wuss

[snoberts]

@viletree He's a New Zealander, but yes, possibly queer. he won't know until he goes to prison.

[beavis6363]

Oh, I get it, all the crap he spews is a joke, I didn't realize Way of the Master was meant to be a nyuk fest. What an unscrupulous douche.

[doctorbuckner]

Ray Comfort IS BAT SHIT CRAZY!!! Ill give you 20 min and ill prove your ass wrong There is no GOD you Itiot Cristians!

[CRUSH3Rdlux]

how can you fail ....so miserably... and STILL refuse to accept your own self-induced defeat? ...Its shameful and baffling...

[ostbagen]

The Banana Man don't really get it, do he.

[demoskunk]

Does he even see how gay he looks while simulating a handjob and blowjob with a banana?

If he was a comedian intentionally satirising creationists, I'd think he was genious!

[zlobronex]

hahahahahahaahahahahha

[peterloohunt]

Is the laughter a soundtrack that's been edited in, along with one shot of the audience? It doesn't ring true that vpeople would laugh at what he's saying as there's no humour in it. What's the joke meant to be? Is he claiming that he's mocking simplified creationist arguments? Why? He does believe shit like this...

[peterloohunt]

What point does Comfort claim he's making with this alleged skit? That the banana ISN'T a good example of 'intelligent design'? That it is? dawkins doesn't want to debate him because it'd be like having a debate with a flat earther. Or a born again xian. Utterly pointless... they're not interested in facts or discovering the truth, they just keep saying 'faith faith faith' over and over again!

[peterloohunt]

I wouldn't trust Comfort as far as I could throw him. He's a manipulative little turd.

[Andrewlohbihler]

Ray Comfort intended his skit to be a serious presentation of why god exists. He did his similar dog routine on Pat Robertson's 700 club show. This routine was serious but Pat was laughing anyway because it was incredibly stupid.

[robvlob]

I can see why people are laughing at Dawkins doing an impression of the banana thing but why would the audience laugh at Comfort.

The "skit" as he so calls it would be nothing but a mockery to the ignorance of creationists in general.

Dawkins "stealing" of comforts material would just be a mockery of the ignorance of Ray Comfort.

I believe it points to the conclusion of others he seriously thought he had a good argument and tried to backtrack to cover his ignorance making him a liar

[pilgrimpater]

We have already seen Thunderfoot dismantling of his argument go over Ray's head so what could Dawkins do? When you have somebody decalre that no mattere what evidence you have for evolution, he will still stick to the Bible then debate is worthless (as we saw with TF). In a way it is a blessing in disguuise as Dawkins would absolutely demolish Comfort.. What next? Sir Patrick Moore haveing a debate with flat earthers?

[peterloohunt]

Dawkins and Co don't debate assholes like Comfort because they know Comfort doesn't care whether or not he wins the debate- he just wants the fame and exposure that debating Dawkins would give him. Why would Dawkins want to help him publicize his foul right wing anti science homophobic ideas?

[derek24hudson]

@peterloohunt

Why didn't NEWTON, EINSTEIN and PASTEUR engage in public debates to justify their 'beliefs' in gravity, relativity and germ theory. I mean, they're ALL theories, just theories, aren't they? GRAVITY threatened god, who no longer 'willed' the orbits of planets, and similarly with other science. Of course, all scientific truth is arrived at by public word wars and showmanship called 'debates'!

[peterloohunt]

It's not a skit, he's backtracking. He believes this kind of shit. When Dawkins and co showed him up, he then pretends it's just a joke... same with his crocoduck twaddle... the man's a creepy idiot...

[buckfushes]

Only the audience makes ray look smart.  lol

[Kimmyloca0]

Ray just looks likes an idot

[fywacia]

I've got a banana in my fist right now Ray and I know where I want to stick it. Oh and Ray, you won't find any comfort in it.

[123Atheist]

I love how God designed the male reproductive system, and the laryngeal nerve.

[eventh0zi0n]

does that mean that R.comfort knows that creationism is a joke.

if he wants a debate then find a comedian to debate and leave real science to scientists who have better things then debating jokes.

[labrat882]

It's funny how desperate Ray is to get Richard to debate him "You owe me, you used my joke baww" haha!

[andyzohoury]

Does anyone know what happened to the original video where Comfort does his banana skit in front of the live crowd? I believe I first saw it on the Way of the Master site, but its not there anymore. Does anyone know if they re-posted the banana apology video?

[alienisuntverus]

Their not laughing with him, their laughing a him/

[buckfushes]

I'm laughing at him too, but at the same time, I'm appalled that so many voting people are convinced by arguments like this.

[madzyzome]

Richard Dawkins wont debate Ray Comfort for the same reason Steven Hawking wont debate Miss Teen USA South Carolina. It would be a total and complete waste of time.

[konothecook]

that banana has been genetically modified by people to look like that. This man is an idiot. By the way, he didn't steal your routine, he credited you and explained your nonsense reasoning.

[ripemind]

why are they all laughing? he is dead serious those people are severely blinded by ignorance

[TheNarlyBones]

@ripemind hes not serious it was a routine that he used to lighten up the crowd ...he wasnt actually sayin that bananas themselves were proof

[badpanda84]

@TheNarlyBones "it was a routine that he used to lighten up the crowd "

Yeah but that was only after people pointed out how stupid that arguement was. In his orginal video went he came up with the banana sketch he was 100% serious

[TheNarlyBones]

@badpanda84 o really uve done reasearch one this have you? cause his video says otherwise and he is more trustworthy than thou art

[badpanda84]

@TheNarlyBones

For a start when he first did this skectch there wasnt even a crowd

[dreamy2]

@ripemind : I think this video is an edited one. The crowd is from another video.

[dreamy2]

@ripemind : I think I was wrong...that's live...

And Comfort is TRULY SHAMELESS

[Illiknight]

Dawkins isn't into debating you, but Christopher Hitchens would gladly wipe the floor with you.

[jakebreaker]

I've recently rifled through Ray Comfort's book "How to Know God Exists." In it, he mentions the Bananaman debacle and claims that the argument was taken out of context (Kettle, meet Pot). He then decides to get serious and starts to present his actual arguments.

One argument seeks to compare "creation" to the Mona Lisa; to compare organisms to man-made structures.

Which is obviously different from comparing a Coke can to a banana because.... Oh, wait. No it isn't.

Ray Comfort is a daft tit.

[SCRulerShinoda]

I bet you that Ray likes cut dick.

look how he fondles that banana

[alexkidd3d]

As if Dawkins would wish to give Comfort the credibility and advertising space a publicized debate would bring. If you debate Ray you may as well debate every wacko out there. To debate him would give a distorted view that there is some kind f level balance between their perspectives, where as in reality Comfort is a fringe loon.

[mythinktube]

"stolen my material?!?" don't flatter yourself Banana Man you crook!

And as for "Atheists claim everything came from nothing?!" that is like the oldest piece of Creationist bullshit in the book. Science has never claimed that...

[XSDarkMoonZX]

@mythinktube: In fact....creationists claim that. Not atheists.

[TheExPlOiTeDOne619]

The whole entire crowd is atheist! They can't stop laughing at his stupidity!

[KamasutraButterfly]

@TheExPlOiTeDOne619 No.... atheists don't tend to be that easily amused ;)

[crissyhowes]

face palm , ray is such a dick, i'd feel sorry for him if it wasn't for him making money out of this sort of thing.

[KaelHunter]

If he was a comedian taking the piss out of creation it would have been funny :)

It's a shame he's a retard.

[kommisar]

Haha, Ray wants to debate a long-held scientific theory as false when he can't even correctly identify plagiarism.

[TheExPlOiTeDOne619]

Hahaha, nice one man.

[kommisar]

Thanks.  ^_^

[Pelonetillo]

dawkins is awesome

[Birdieupon]

Ray Comfort is truly a complete and utter idiot.

Dawkins was QUOTING the banana routine and debunking it (which of course would have been the bit that Comfort talked over).

Dawkins won't debate you because he has better things to do than give time to dick-heads who don't even know that the banana was ARTIFICIALLY ALTERED by human selective efforts!

There are far better opponents out there (I want to see Dawkins debate William Lane Craig) but this pompous, ignorant kiwi? Forget him.

[Not2Sane]

How on Earth did Richard Dawkins steal Ray's material? He stated it was Ray's material. So it was not theft, and you simply want to goad him into a debate...

[Vidar33]

Enter the pineapple...

[GunbladeLH]

lol

[askegg]

20 minutes? How about two words "No evidence".

Where do I get my banana?

[FlowCell]

Dawkins is awesome for using a New Zealand accent.

[ziggy08xx]

Let's hear Ray Comfort try to explain an orange, potato or watermalon... lmao

[Jamesuni]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Ya that would be funny.

[SMSBJM1981]

It should be permissible by law to give an axe to the face of any creatard who says "something comes from nothing".

[fakeham]

If there is a god, he just facepalmed.

[Jamesuni]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA he would have.