Interview tonight with Ray Comfort...interesting atheism book...questions?

[dpakman91]

Originally Posted by JaJae

A lot of the reviews question his factual information on evolution and his understanding of modern scientific concepts. While his religious background may be strong, I have had difficulty finding his educational background.

I'd ask him what level of education he has obtained, what he majored in what makes him qualified to discuss religious and scientific ideologies. Having a strong understanding in one area doesn't make someone an expert on the other. Has he ever taken a Biology class outside of high school? I can't quickly find that information online and I would be interested to hear what kind of scientific background he has since he is attacking scientific theory. In order for him to write a book on these issues he should be able to prove his education level for both sides of the arguments.

i'll ask this almost word for word for you, should be a good one

[DosEquis]

Originally Posted by stolz25

... purely by chance.

give scrum 10s of millions years of chances and even he can get laid.

[HughRuss]

Originally Posted by stolz25

I'd say the evidence is all around us. It's hard for me to believe everything we know of came into being purely by chance.

Are you a theist? Deist? Christian?

I frankly see no evidence of a 'creator.' The 'evidence' cited by the majority of the arguments are largely unfounded (favorite being the eye).

Originally Posted by dpakman91

hey says he can prove god exists

Ask him his views on the philosophy between freewill and determinism; that is, whether or not he believes freewill exists, or if he thinks everything is determined. If the former, then a God must not exist*, if the latter, then why the necessity for divinely sanctioned punishment (Hell and the like, or laws of morality as deduced from the divine)?

*The standard definition for a single God is omniscient and omnipotent. In order to know everything (omniscience), one must have knowledge before hand of what is going to take place --and since there is some 'divine creator' that is omniscience, he would then have known that everything any person does in their life is inevitably going to happen (as he created everything, and that is, by definition, a part of his creation). Which would then mean that he randomly sends people to hell to suffer for their crimes which he, by this logical deduction, himself created. Or, he forced others to suffer at the hands of extremely evil people (Hitler, Stalin, etc).

I'd be interested to hear his take on that.

Another interesting question to ask him is whether or not he believes because a banana can fit into a humans hand, God created everything. Ask him, then, if that can be explained by adaptation from ape-like creatures, and not simply as a "fine-tuned" system.

video regarding that:

YouTube - Atheists nightmare debunked. Ray...

In the event anybody is wondering, he went to debate 2 atheists, claiming he could prove God's existence without invoking the Bible, and in his opening statement, cited several commandments.
Regarding the debate

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-rKiGJrcNw

Fast-forward to ~40 seconds

[JaJae]

Originally Posted by dpakman91

i'll ask this almost word for word for you, should be a good one

I'll be burning this to a CD and listening to it in my car as usual. Thanks

[dpakman91]

Originally Posted by JaJae

I'll be burning this to a CD and listening to it in my car as usual. Thanks

arghhhhhh i didn't get your question in. i had LL right on my screen in front of me the whole time, and between phone trouble and the guy just going off i didn't get it in

[HughRuss]

Originally Posted by dpakman91

arghhhhhh i didn't get your question in. i had LL right on my screen in front of me the whole time, and between phone trouble and the guy just going off i didn't get it in

As I thought, a complete lack of knowledge of evolution/science as a whole.

So, he's a believer because of ignorance...

[dpakman91]

Originally Posted by HughRuss

As I thought, a complete lack of knowledge of evolution/science as a whole.

So, he's a believer because of ignorance...

I wish I had had more time to prepare and had specifics to go at him with, except he'd just say "well we don't know," etc. Hard to argue with these folks. When i mentioned Shirley Phelps-Roper, my producer started waving me off, haha, saying don't bring that up.

[HughRuss]

Originally Posted by dpakman91

I wish I had had more time to prepare and had specifics to go at him with, except he'd just say "well we don't know," etc. Hard to argue with these folks. When i mentioned Shirley Phelps-Roper, my producer started waving me off, haha, saying don't bring that up.

Hmm, I thought lulz inducing rants = ratings.

But then again, you'd be recognized as just the crazies fisher and nothing more.

Still, interesting show.

[JaJae]

I don't know how you get away with being sarcastic and have them thank you for the interview. Good work.

[dpakman91]

Originally Posted by JaJae

I don't know how you get away with being sarcastic and have them thank you for the interview. Good work.

i assume they aren't listening to me