An open blog to Ray Comfort, or ‘I wrote this after 10 pages of greatness’

To the banana man,

Damn you, Ray Comfort.

I was set to head onto campus tomorrow to meet with former students, some friends, and perhaps, if I timed it right, get a chance to catch members of your goon squad passing out a new shiny “On the Origin of the Species,” of Charlie Darwin fame. Of course I didn’t expect the book to be the real ‘Origin’ and I was right. Missing is nearly one fifth of the book, several chapters, where the logical arguments and evidence were greatest, and it is soured with an introduction penned by the you, the banana man himself. The intro claims Darwin hated women (nope) and was a racist (taking one quote out of context and then ignoring the evidence that he was far from it, such as the times he was almost kicked off the H.M.S. Beagle for voicing disgust at slavery and the mistreatment of native populations). Of course, this has nothing to do with the theory of evolution, but these ad hominem attacks seem to go hand in hand with distortion, deletion, and just plain lying. Why be so dishonest and underhanded if you are right? (This reminds me of Ben Stein slicing video, cutting answers, remixing to get false results, and lying about the nature of his ‘documentary’ to those he interviewed (of whom he was too fearful to actually let them go to the screening) in order to peddle his stupidity to the stupid and the ignorant

Well Ray, you tricked us all again. Fearing that actual scientists and intelligent people would be waiting to debate, to engage in thought, to discuss evidence, you pushed up the date one day to avoid such a thing. What a coward. I group you and your ilk in the same category as holocaust deniers and flat-earthers. And it isn’t just some godless amoral baby-eating atheists like me that thinks this. There are plenty of Christians whom you are embarrassing with your supreme stupidity. These people, while they do not share my beliefs, share my disdain. They are able to look at evidence and show disgust at the very idea of having to lie for their faith.

Please cease. You are leading a few good people who lack the evidence and a legion of very bad people astray.

All the worst,
Richard Shea