God in a banana?

Question

The old adage about how EVIDENCE of God exists in a simple banana. "How the fruit fits perfectly in your hand, the tab that allows you to open it, how the skin rests cleanly around your fist, how the fruit fits perfectly in your mouth and is tilted towards you, the easily digestible vitamin richness, this can't be random, God created the banana, it's too perfect" blah blah blah.

I've heard this so many times from Christians, and I have to wonder.

Does no one see the irony in using bananas as proof of God existing... when... um... monkeys eat bananas? And... the LAST thing a Christian wants to hear is "we evolved from apes"? Or is it just me?

CinderBlock... I don't see anyone claiming a banana fits perfectly into a bird's hand or a fly's mouth.

Some random guy and rt1290 - how does that imply there's a god? All it shows me is that there's an underlying logic in everything, and the seeds etc you're referring to are the Golden Ratio, the number Phi. That proves there's math, not god.

Da Mick - same reason a group of rattlesnakes evolved in 2 generations to adapt to survival on an island with lots of trees and birds. They lost their rattles.

Frak - I think you're talking about the Big Bang, not evolution, dear...

Answer 1

Don't hump my fairy, lest ye be neutered.

Oh and I ate bananas. Therefore I ate god. WHERES YOUR GOD NOW CHRISTIANS? In my belly, that's where. Oooh, toilet time.

Oh and Frak, I love your logic. Let's try yours.

Once upon time, nothing existed at all except god. Then god made the world and all the things in it. Then he apparently went to Arby's and never came back because the world's a pretty ****** up place. Yep, he's thinkin Arby's.

Answer 2

I am a Christian.

I think the banana example is ridiculous. Seriously, you have had Christians use this.

I have seen the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zwbhAXe5yk The guy on there call it the Atheist Nightmare, all the while Kirk Cameron is laughing at him!

I have known this has been around for sometime, but I didn't know that there were fellow Christians that bought into it. Please forgive them. Not all Atheist are smart, and well the same is true for us Christians. I don't claim to be a genius myself.

I enjoyed the reaction videos on youtube, like what about a pineapple. Seems like God messed up! lol

Answer 3

I've never heard of the adage, to be honest. But, to me, evidence is the sun. Why? Well nobody can really explain why it has burned for so many centuries. Nor can you land a shuttle and get soil samples. And all we have are telescopic pictures of flames shooting upward then back down into the sun. And we dont know if it a liquid or a solid. And what confuses me about evolution is the fact that they don't even know what brought everything together to create the big bang theory. For two things to connect, something has to pull them together.

Answer 4

Yes, I would agree that this is a silly thing to say about a banana. We eat artichokes too, and they are a bear to deal with. But what Christians generally want to point out is how well designed such things are. Every banana tree produces only bananas, and they are good for food. We live because bananas and such things exist in the world, as if someone wanted to make sure we would survive. And each banana can make more bananas, and each one always follows the same design that it is assigned; yellow, sweet, peel protected, etc. I don't think the banana tree thinks about how it's going to make bananas anymore than we think much about eating them, but isn't it interesting how both of us do those things, as if we were "meant" to.

Answer 5

That's funny.....I've never heard of that analogy, but I like to think everything in this world is perfectly "imperfect"....it's not just the banana, but look at us, for example....our bodies our perfect so that we survive and function in a complex manner...yet we have consciousness to debate on things such as God. No other animal can do this (that we know of). I think that's more proof of God than a banana as well as the fact there are too many so called coincidences that can no be explained by science.

Answer 6

I've heard that as a joke, but I didn't realize that anyone actually took that "argument" seriously! I believe in God, but I have to say that the argument is kinda lame. I mean, why only bananas are made this way? Why did God make coconuts so darned hard to get into? And if God wanted us to eat nuts, then how come nutcrackers don't grow on the tree along with the nut? hahaha.

Answer 7

Anyone who can believe the Theory of Evolution has no room to scorn anyone's beliefs.

Once upon a time that was really not a time, everything that was really not a thing, was an infinitely dense mass in one place that was really not a place, and for some strange reason it exploded.. POOF! And when all the dust settled, we all found ourselves sitting here talking about how stupid God is.

Edit - Yes Prozacfa.. I am talking about the big bang AND evolution - Can't have biological evolution without astronomical evolution..

Answer 8

I've never heard that a banana is evidence of God's existence. However, all creation testifies of such. Look at the heavens and marvel, or stoop to watch an ant at work. God's perfect order and enabling are seen everywhere for those with the eyes to see.

Answer 9

I agree with you that using a banana as a comparison to God, is ridiculous, how about a watermelon, or an orange, will that sit better with you? By the way, there is nothing wrong with apes, and the way some of us behave, causes Christians to believe that indeed man might truly be closely related to the monkey...don't you agree?

Answer 10

The argument from banana is my all-time favorite "proof" of the existence of God. It's a pretty thorough failure of logic.

Just one more example that we're having different discussions about the same thing. Argument from banana seems like preaching to the choir - I can't see any atheist coming around because of fruit architecture.

What's worse is that is seems like the most scientific attempt to replace evolutionary theory - the flagship argument of intelligent design, as it were.