i have watched the clip. i don't understand it.
a banana is a fruit. therefore god exists.
is god a kind of fruit? is god a banana?
can anyone explain it to me, or do you need to be a creationist to even follow this stuff?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zwbhAXe5yk
2007-12-23 07:40:07 · 30 answers · asked by synopsis 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
>i have watched the clip. i don't understand it.
I didn't watch the video, but I suspect it's the same video I've seen a couple times before on the subject of bananas and creationism. The idea is that bananas are formed perfectly to fit in human hands, be peeled by human fingers and eaten by human mouths. The creationist in the video claims that this means they can't have evolved naturally and 'randomly', that they must have been designed by an intelligent being, which to a creationist automatically means God.
>or do you need to be a creationist to even follow this stuff?
'Follow' seems to be an appropriate word for it...
2007-12-23 08:37:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is, like most creationist "proofs", based in a lack of understanding of history and science. The premise is that the bananas that we eat today are "perfectly designed for a human hand to grasp. The reality is that bananas were originally much smaller and were bred to their current size and shape.
In essence this is crediting "creation" with what man exploiting evolutionary mechanisms did in the last 100 or so years.
2007-12-23 07:45:45 · answer #2 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The clip scares me. If the banana is God's proof of existence, maybe we have gone too far and over-evolved over monkeys. The ramifications are cosmic.
2007-12-23 07:45:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. This is Kirk Cameron's error. The banana (as found in today's supermarket) is actually a product of selection by humans over time. The agricultural practices that select for certain valued characteristics have made today's banana.
The natural (wild type) banana is hardly edible. See reference to see the natural banana. If god created this banana for humans, it certainly does not point to a very intelligent god.
2007-12-23 07:45:26 · answer #4 · answered by CC 7 · 7⤊ 2⤋
I think he was trying to say that the bannana is so well formed to the human that it could ne happen as an accident ergo there must be a god. I personally think it is a very shallow idea and doesn't prove anything. It is a theory and cannot be prove. The guy has way too much time on his hands.pp
2007-12-23 07:45:37 · answer #5 · answered by ttpawpaw 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I laughed my *** off the first time I saw that one. I guess that the guys didn't realize that wild bananas don't look or taste like that. They are real sour actually. They don't fit so well in your hand and so on.
I guess that a coconut is a creationists nightmare.
2007-12-23 07:51:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
If you want to scare an atheist, just run at them weilding a banana, all the while making that music that is played in the movie "Psycho" when Norman Bates attacks Marion in the shower.
(I'm kidding)
2007-12-23 07:51:12 · answer #7 · answered by I'm Still Here 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's Ray Comfort for you. Take a look at the debunked version as well.
He is essentially saying that because a banana is ergonomically fit to a human, it proves that God made bananas for man to eat. Complete nonsense.
2007-12-23 07:42:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
it quite is a cruel, cruel summer season, leaving me right here on my own... Oh, you probably did not say Bananarama... relatively, adult adult males like Kirk Cameron are my nightmare. AAAAIIIGHHHH!!! he's attempting to transform me!!! Aiigh, not the banana element returned!
2016-12-11 11:47:57 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a silly argument. Wild bananas don't look like that - the ones that Kirk is monkeying around
2007-12-23 07:44:33 · answer #10 · answered by Godless AM™ VT 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋