I've recently had the misfortune of watching Evolution vs. God, which is Ray Comfort's latest attempt to ignore common sense and to generally make an ass out of himself. Enough of that, I've decided that for the sake of this review, I will review only the film, not Comfort himself except for what is in the film.
The film starts with a Richard Dawkins quote, "Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence." I don't get it, why use that quote? It makes no sense to me. A few moments later it is asserted "Live Science" says of Darwinian evolution: "It can turn dinosaurs into birds, apes into humans and amphibious mammals into whales." First off, it obviously assumes that the changes are sudden when in fact evolution is very gradual. Second, we did not evolve from modern day apes, we evolved from a common ancestor. This statement simply proves Comfort's ignorance. He repeatedly displays his lack of understanding of evolution by asking for an instance of one species becoming another, sorry Ray but it doesn't work that way. He frequently states that he wants evidence yet completely ignores evidence that is presented to him.
He interestingly pushes that you need faith to believe in evolution. So let me get this right, faith in evolution, which has mountains of evidence supporting it, is bad but blindly accepting a magical man in the sky with no evidence whatsoever is just fine? Ray consistently uses editing techniques to make the people he interviews look like idiots, but to the educated mind Ray himself looks like the idiot. He attempts to push his idea that belief in evolution requires faith and that there is no evidence for it, while simultaneously refusing to accept the evidence that is presented to him. He seems to think that existence itself is evidence for God, an assertion that is fundamentally flawed.
At one point Ray asks random people to make things out of nothing, he is literally asking people to conjure things out of thin air, and when they obviously can't, that's somehow evidence for intelligent design. I honestly think he doesn't actually know what evidence is. Ray's logic throughout is severely lacking. He doesn't seem to understand that not knowing is not evidence for God, which he frequently asserts. I'm sorry Ray, but just because i'm not a wizard, that doesn't mean there is one somewhere.
As far as I figure, Ray's line of reasoning is this, things that have happened before the rise of man cannot be observed so it's not evidence and therefor never happened, something cannot come from nothing so something must have created it, we don't know exactly what happened so it must have been God. His entire argument completely ignores factual evidence, which he discredits simply because no living person has personally witnessed it. Not to mention he keeps asking for a jump between species and that's just not how evolution works. He's basically looking for an ape giving birth to a human, something that has never happened, and using his lack of findings as evidence for his beliefs. His entire argument falls apart with a minimal amount of thought.
He cites several quotes from famous historical figures but cites them out of context.
Ray then addresses morality. I will state this yet again, Christianity did not invent morals. The Bible has rules on when it's okay to rape, murder, and how badly you can beat your slaves. The book offers guidelines on selling your daughter. The Bible is not a source of morality! If you were to follow every "moral" guideline in the Bible, you would spend the rest of you life in prison. He goes on to say that you can't be a good moral person without God, and even attempts guilt-trip tactics, "I wouldn't want to see you go to Hell!" Pathetic at best. He then makes laughable attempts to convert people.
At this point in the film you can just stop because he only tries to illustrate the same point over and over.
Honestly, this film was horrible and I honestly believe it will go down in history as an embarrassment.
All in all, Ray Comfort is an idiot.
He interestingly pushes that you need faith to believe in evolution. So let me get this right, faith in evolution, which has mountains of evidence supporting it, is bad but blindly accepting a magical man in the sky with no evidence whatsoever is just fine? Ray consistently uses editing techniques to make the people he interviews look like idiots, but to the educated mind Ray himself looks like the idiot. He attempts to push his idea that belief in evolution requires faith and that there is no evidence for it, while simultaneously refusing to accept the evidence that is presented to him. He seems to think that existence itself is evidence for God, an assertion that is fundamentally flawed.
At one point Ray asks random people to make things out of nothing, he is literally asking people to conjure things out of thin air, and when they obviously can't, that's somehow evidence for intelligent design. I honestly think he doesn't actually know what evidence is. Ray's logic throughout is severely lacking. He doesn't seem to understand that not knowing is not evidence for God, which he frequently asserts. I'm sorry Ray, but just because i'm not a wizard, that doesn't mean there is one somewhere.
As far as I figure, Ray's line of reasoning is this, things that have happened before the rise of man cannot be observed so it's not evidence and therefor never happened, something cannot come from nothing so something must have created it, we don't know exactly what happened so it must have been God. His entire argument completely ignores factual evidence, which he discredits simply because no living person has personally witnessed it. Not to mention he keeps asking for a jump between species and that's just not how evolution works. He's basically looking for an ape giving birth to a human, something that has never happened, and using his lack of findings as evidence for his beliefs. His entire argument falls apart with a minimal amount of thought.
He cites several quotes from famous historical figures but cites them out of context.
Ray then addresses morality. I will state this yet again, Christianity did not invent morals. The Bible has rules on when it's okay to rape, murder, and how badly you can beat your slaves. The book offers guidelines on selling your daughter. The Bible is not a source of morality! If you were to follow every "moral" guideline in the Bible, you would spend the rest of you life in prison. He goes on to say that you can't be a good moral person without God, and even attempts guilt-trip tactics, "I wouldn't want to see you go to Hell!" Pathetic at best. He then makes laughable attempts to convert people.
At this point in the film you can just stop because he only tries to illustrate the same point over and over.
Honestly, this film was horrible and I honestly believe it will go down in history as an embarrassment.
All in all, Ray Comfort is an idiot.
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