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The Banana, an Atheist Nightmare (revisited)

TimCallahan said:
That makes perfect sense to me. God gave us hands for our own bananas. The only thing I don't understand is why women have hands.
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They started out with their own banana but because they ate the other banana god punished them by taking away their banana and having to eat the other banana thereafter....and punished men with the insatiable and often thwarted desire to share their banana.
 
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True Christians with Strong Faith shouldn't have to peel the banana. If they pray and believe really hard, God will remove the banana from the peel through a divine miracle or send along a guardian monkey (or malamute) to peel the banana for them.
 
Don't know if this helps or not but most apes when eating bananas actually open them from THE OTHER END. They squeeze it, it normally 'pops' open in two parts, and they use less time peeling by only having two 'sides' to open.

Gosh. You don't think we've evolved differently from apes do you?


Threep.
 
It makes me wonder if Cameron has ever seen a pineapple, or a coconut, or an artichoke.
 
Not made by me mind you, but someone in another thread made a powerful case that the ease that bananas could be fit into body orifices was a sign that God meant us to be gay.
 
Marduk said:
I think you've just shown that Gorillas are the chosen people, now it suddenly makes sense, thats why the bible only fools people with a chimp like intellect
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Nope, it's cats that are the chosen people. They don't eat bananas, and have human companions slaves to do whatever that want.
And we all know the bible was pro-slavery,
Ergo, it's cats.
:D
 
Kopji said:
Not made by me mind you, but someone in another thread made a powerful case that the ease that bananas could be fit into body orifices was a sign that God meant us to be gay.
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Wait a minute, they usually just start to pop open when you first start to shove. . .
Nevermind.
 
I'm amazed at the fact that, given an infinite amount of time, an infinite number of monkeys with typewriters can, eventually, type the whole works of Shakespeare. I mean.... to think of the idea that their fingers perfectly match the size and shape of the typewriter's keys, it's just....astonishing.
 
And ears are in exactly the right place to support spectacles. How could evolution have got that right millions of years before spectacles were invented, eh? Answer me that, if you can. :)
 
Wolfman said:
Awhile ago, Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron came under fire for producing a video in which Ray argued that the banana is the atheist's "worst nightmare", because it conclusively proves the existence of God. He pointed out the a banana is perfectly shaped not only to be held in the human hand, but also to point towards the mouth as eating it. The convenient stem on top works as a 'tab' to open it, like the tabs on the top of a can of Coke.

Critics were quick to pile on and point out that the modern banana has been deliberately engineered by humans, and that the original wild ancestors of our modern banana enjoyed almost none of those human-friendly characteristics.

However, in a moment of remarkable inspiration/revelation, I've come to realize that Mr. Comfort was absolutely correct...he was just looking at it from the wrong perspective!

Evolution had no way of predicting that the modern banana would ever appear. Therefore, evolving a hand that is perfectly engineered to hold, open, and eat a modern banana would have had no evolutionary purpose whatsoever. Why would evolution have given us banana-holding hands, if there were no modern bananas to hold/open/eat? The only reasonable conclusion is that there must be a God who knew that some day, bananas would appear on the scene, and that humans would need properly designed hands with which to hold, open, and consume those bananas.

Thus, through the exercise of pure logic, devoid of any fallacies or errors whatsoever, I have demonstrated the unequivocal, undeniable reality of God's existence.

Discuss.
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I know that this is a lighthearted question. There is however a thread of logic in this kind of thought experiment if you shift your perspective from the banana to the God for a moment.

If you define God as the being who caused, or the cause of, existence as we know it. Then by design or not this cause resulted in the particular kind of existence that we are aware of.

I will restrict the cause at this stage to a single cause for simplicity.

From this we can deduce that the existence we know of is in some way related to, or an expression of, the nature of this being or cause. How could it not be? as like with an artist the cause would leave a signature or stylistic technique in its creation. Not just an objective signature, but a subjective signature.

In a way the inner banana in God somehow became revealed in the expression of God. Or alternatively the inner thinker in God became revealed in the expression or creative act of God.

By this reasoning one can envisage that all forms present in our known existence were put there specifically by this God with or without intent because they were already present in some form in God.
 
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punshhh said:
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In a way the inner banana in God somehow became revealed in the expression of God. Or alternatively the inner thinker in God became revealed in the expression or creative act of God.

By this reasoning one can envisage that all forms present in our known existence were put there specifically by this God with or without intent because they were already present in some form in God.
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The inner Banana.

Wasn't that the title of a Sting album?
 
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