“I will present undeniable scientific proof that God exists.” Sure you will Mr. Comfort. Comfort and Kirk Cameron are going to appear on a to-be-televised-on-ABC debate.
For Mr. Comfort’s sake, I hope his undeniable scientific proof isn’t a jar of peanut butter or a banana.
What’s funnier, or really, sadder, is Kirk Cameron. I give him credit for avoiding the childhood-actor-turned-petty-criminal-who-dies-in-the-gutter path of life. But his religious exploits are just way too far over the top. Let’s look at some of what he said in the article:
Atheism has become very popular in universities–where it’s taught that we evolved from animals and that there are no moral absolutes. So we shouldn’t be surprised when there are school shootings.
Just let that thought marinate for a while.
The VT shooter wasn’t crazy or anything. He was just a college student. That’s what caused it.
The Columbine shooters? They weren’t crazy or anything. They were just college students. Oh. Shit. No they weren’t.
Clearly, back before Darwin, people were peaceful. Why, I’ll put dollars to donuts that it was Darwin’s 1859 publishing of The Origin of Species that led to the American Civil War in 1861.
Anyway, more from the article:
According to recent polls 12% of Americans do not have a belief in a Higher Power, up from 8% in 1987 (that group includes agnostics). In Europe the rise of atheism and agnosticism is stunning, where according to a Zukerman study, in Sweden as many as 85% of the population are non-believers, Japan 65%, France 54% and in Britain 44% do not believe in God.
Sweden, Japan, France, and Britain. With their rates of non-believers, I bet they have tons of gun deaths and school shootings. They must be drowning in rivers of blood.
| Country | % non-believers | Rate of gun deaths |
|---|---|---|
| USA | 12% | 14.24 |
| France | 54% | 5.15 |
| Sweden | 80% | 1.92 |
| England & Wales | 44% | 0.41 |
| Japan | 65% | 0.05 |
Were I careless about assigning blame, I just might think that believing in God causes gun deaths. But I am smarter than that.
Still, if there is a God, I have to believe that Kirk Cameron is his best practical joke, yet.
Addendum: There is one more point I should add that I forgot about last night. In an EconTalk podcast, Larry Iannocone mentioned that in general, college grads are as religious as the rest of the population, with the exception being PhDs. Adding that the average atheist is not well educated, instead they are “young single males with low education and low income!”
[Respectful Insolence - Orac also thinks this will be a laugher.]
