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Ray Comfort is “an idiot”: Dawkins on evidence

You may remember this post of a brief video in which Stupidity Pin Up Boy, Kirk Cameron, was totally owned by an exceptionally helpful contributer.

His buddy in Stupidity is Ray Comfort – who is known at this desk as The Banana CumFart. Rude, Crude and Uncalled for? Indeed, as is The CumFart. Anyhoo, Dawkins is interviewed below and fortuitously a questioner asks about the insert CumFart wrote to abuse Darwins work.

Interestingly, Ray’s response has naught to do with evidence but more hearsay that actually leaves one asking just how useless is Creationism, if it cannot stand on it’s own. No! Don’t answer that.

It must be used as a libelous attack within copies of On The Origin Of Species. Evidence requires introspection and thought, Ray. Not cleverly placed ambiguities that arise from your personal opinions.

CNN story below video.

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London, England (CNN) — A Christian evangelist branded an idiot by atheist biologist Richard Dawkins for trying to refute Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution has brushed off the criticism.

Speaking to CNN on the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s seminal work “On the Origin of Species,” Dawkins said the evidence to support the theory that life on earth came about through natural selection, and not design by God, was “now massively buttressed by molecular evidence.”

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.”

Comfort’s California-based Living Waters ministry says it plans to distribute 120,000 copies of Darwin‘s theories on leading university campuses with a 50-page introduction in which he says he provides evidence for intelligent design.

Responding to Dawkins’ criticism, Comfort issued a statement to CNN. “If the views expressed in my introduction of ‘On the Origin of Species’ are ‘idiotic,’ why would Mr. Dawkins tell students to rip them out of the book, as he did recently?

“Surely he should encourage them to read the introduction to see how foolhardy it is, and that would strengthen students’ faith in the theory of evolution.”

Dawkins, who came to prominence with his 1976 book “The Selfish Gene,” which explores the origins of life, has been dubbed in the media as “Darwin’s rottweiler.”

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