So this one turned up in my youtube recommended videos this morning:

Besides the absolutely hilarious idea of Ray Comfort and Ken Ham, deeply conservative right-wing Christian evangelicals, being oh so concerned about racism and gender equality, I still couldn't have anticipated the sheer stupidity of what came later.

Ken Ham and Ray Comfort are of course well-known for their legendary stupidity, but I have to admit I was astonished to see Ray Comfort is EVEN NOW, TODAY, IN 2020, still pushing the "the first male had to wait millions of years for the first female"-argument. Despite having had it explained to him over and over again, many many hundreds of times over the last 10-15 years, how ridiculous that is.

How is it possible for one man to be incapable of absorbing such an elementary thing? Yes, he still believes that evolution says that at some point, an actual chimpanzee birthed an anatomically modern human male, and then this human male would have to wander around aimlessly for millions of years before another chimp birthed a human female for this male to mate with.

I suppose that the great irony here is that I too am incapable of absorbing the lesson that some people are incapable of absorbing any information at all.

Rumraket wrote:I suppose that the great irony here is that I too am incapable of absorbing the lesson that some people are incapable of absorbing any information at all.

I sometimes would wonder if he really does understand well and that he's just trolling and being dishonest because this is his living at stake.
I think the reality is that that is the charitable view.

What did the dude do, hump chimpanzees for a million years?

Cognitive dissonance. With an extra topping of Lying for Jesus.

Animavore wrote:

Rumraket wrote:I suppose that the great irony here is that I too am incapable of absorbing the lesson that some people are incapable of absorbing any information at all.

I sometimes would wonder if he really does understand well and that he's just trolling and being dishonest because this is his living at stake.
I think the reality is that that is the charitable view.

Heh, yeah it seems to me there is no interpretation possible that doesn't reflect badly on Ray Comfort. He's either a liar, or extremely biased to the point that he can't think on certain subjects, or generally not cognitively equipped to fathom the concept. The last one just seems too extreme, as it would imply he'd fall over on his bicycle if he tried to chew gum. None of the options are mutually exclusive of course. He could be some combination of dumb, dishonest, and deluded.

I don't understand his special type of stupidity, but I admire his tenacity.

Recently during a chat with SO I remembered this prat. I don't recall the specifics but it was perhaps something to do with bananas and/or intelligent design because I explained Ray's notion that the banana fits perfectly in his hand therefore ID [I didn't expand on it also being the right size for Kirk Cameron's arsehole].
I hadn't thought he was still relevant today.

He was never relevant, except to other stupids like himself.


(Wow! I've used a 'full-stop' - that's aggresive, man... )

Animavore wrote:

Rumraket wrote:I suppose that the great irony here is that I too am incapable of absorbing the lesson that some people are incapable of absorbing any information at all.

I sometimes would wonder if he really does understand well and that he's just trolling and being dishonest because this is his living at stake.
I think the reality is that that is the charitable view.

I always wonder that. Actually I expect that it's the case. Not because he's smart, but because no one's that dumb. Kinda like Glenn Beck.

He's not worth a lot of money from what I can find online, max around a million U.S. total.

The_Piper wrote:

Animavore wrote:

Rumraket wrote:I suppose that the great irony here is that I too am incapable of absorbing the lesson that some people are incapable of absorbing any information at all.

I sometimes would wonder if he really does understand well and that he's just trolling and being dishonest because this is his living at stake.
I think the reality is that that is the charitable view.

I always wonder that. Actually I expect that it's the case. Not because he's smart, but because no one's that dumb. Kinda like Glenn Beck.

Ah! Faith in human intelligence. I remember that from pre-2016.

Animavore wrote:

The_Piper wrote:

Animavore wrote:

Rumraket wrote:I suppose that the great irony here is that I too am incapable of absorbing the lesson that some people are incapable of absorbing any information at all.

I sometimes would wonder if he really does understand well and that he's just trolling and being dishonest because this is his living at stake.
I think the reality is that that is the charitable view.

I always wonder that. Actually I expect that it's the case. Not because he's smart, but because no one's that dumb. Kinda like Glenn Beck.

Ah! Faith in human intelligence. I remember that from pre-2016.

Good point, my bad.

lmao@ "his wife's DAP"

Rumraket wrote:
Ken Ham and Ray Comfort are of course well-known for their legendary stupidity, but I have to admit I was astonished to see Ray Comfort is EVEN NOW, TODAY, IN 2020, still pushing the "the first male had to wait millions of years for the first female"-argument. Despite having had it explained to him over and over again, many many hundreds of times over the last 10-15 years, how ridiculous that is.

How is it possible for one man to be incapable of absorbing such an elementary thing? Yes, he still believes that evolution says that at some point, an actual chimpanzee birthed an anatomically modern human male, and then this human male would have to wander around aimlessly for millions of years before another chimp birthed a human female for this male to mate with.

There's a lot more going on than a mere failure of comprehension. What it boils down to is an overwhelming need to feel superior. The stupidity of the argument isn't an oversight - it's the point. It's a strawman of his opponent's position, designed to make them look stupid, so that he can laugh about how stupid they are, and consequently tell himself how much smarter he is than them. The fact that this strawman bears no resemblance to his opponent's position just isn't important to him - he desperately needs his opponents to be deeply stupid in order to elevate himself. His ego simply cannot handle the idea that there exist people on the planet who are smarter than he is, so he avoids that reality by pretending that every other person is a blithering idiot. It will never be possible to correct him on that strawman because he derives an enormous amount of self-worth from it - he would sooner gouge his own eyes out with a paperclip than admit that he isn't the smartest person on the planet. He has an intense emotional need for his opponents to be idiots, and as such will warp reality to whatever degree necessary in order to keep that fantasy alive.