For those that don't know what the Dunning-Kruger effect is, it is the cognitive bias where unskilled individuals rate their ability higher than it objectively is because their lack of skill keeps them from making an accurate assessment of those skills. Directly parallel, ignorant people are more likely to think they have a mastery of a subject with which they have absolutely not the faintest clue about. This is Comfort in nutshell; he's so ignorant of biology he isn't capable of recognizing his own ignorance.
Comfort once told us that whales have gills. He once told everyone that Yahweh intelligently designed bananas because they fit the hand so nicely and have a "tab" to open. He once thought that "bibliophile" was a type of deviant because it sounds like pedophile. Needless to say we aren't dealing with the most knowledgeable person here--to put it nicely. Now, in his latest video, he loudly proclaims his incorrigible ignorance as virtue.
His whole shtick is false analogy and question begging.
That's it. That's his whole performance.
So how did Comfort accomplish this feat of spectacular buffoonery?
He erroneously equates natural entities to artifacts. Do manufactured artifacts grow? Are they living? Do they reproduce? No. The analogy of living things to artifacts is both inapt and inept.
Because Comfort assumes that which he seeks to prove he is engaging in begging the question—a type of circular reasoning.
Because a book has an author, you, dear reader, were made by God! Such is Comfort's "reasoning."
Of course, this reasoning works equally well for Poseidon. We can arbitrarily classify the ocean as an artifact. Therefore it requires a maker. Therefore Poseidon. Such is Comfort's "reasoning. "
As for details, Comfort goes on a whole ignorant spiel about "how did an organism see without having yet evolved eyes?" And, "how did the blood circulate without blood vessels?" These are just slight variations of his facepalm inducing question: "how did evolution know to evolve the first man after the first woman evolved?"
Populations evolve incrementally. Evolution builds upon the past. Individuals don't pop out of the air magically. That is the position of creationists. Literally, a reasonably bright third grader can tell you this and, equally, tell that someone like Comfort misunderstands evolution at a basic level.
After that, the video goes into moralizing. Because we feel guilt, therefore there must be a conscience maker i.e. God. Atheists don't believe in God because they don't want to be morally accountable. I suppose Comfort doesn't believe in Allah because he enjoys eating pork. Such is Comfort's "reasoning."
Oh, and did you know that because the Chicken had to come before the Egg, therefore evolution is false? Yes; such is Comfort's "reasoning."
The video is mildly entertaining in an intellectual train wreck type of way and the stock footage of nature is good. Other than that it is the same old pig just with some new lipstick.
Comfort once told us that whales have gills. He once told everyone that Yahweh intelligently designed bananas because they fit the hand so nicely and have a "tab" to open. He once thought that "bibliophile" was a type of deviant because it sounds like pedophile. Needless to say we aren't dealing with the most knowledgeable person here--to put it nicely. Now, in his latest video, he loudly proclaims his incorrigible ignorance as virtue.
His whole shtick is false analogy and question begging.
That's it. That's his whole performance.
So how did Comfort accomplish this feat of spectacular buffoonery?
He erroneously equates natural entities to artifacts. Do manufactured artifacts grow? Are they living? Do they reproduce? No. The analogy of living things to artifacts is both inapt and inept.
Because Comfort assumes that which he seeks to prove he is engaging in begging the question—a type of circular reasoning.
Because a book has an author, you, dear reader, were made by God! Such is Comfort's "reasoning."
Of course, this reasoning works equally well for Poseidon. We can arbitrarily classify the ocean as an artifact. Therefore it requires a maker. Therefore Poseidon. Such is Comfort's "reasoning. "
As for details, Comfort goes on a whole ignorant spiel about "how did an organism see without having yet evolved eyes?" And, "how did the blood circulate without blood vessels?" These are just slight variations of his facepalm inducing question: "how did evolution know to evolve the first man after the first woman evolved?"
Populations evolve incrementally. Evolution builds upon the past. Individuals don't pop out of the air magically. That is the position of creationists. Literally, a reasonably bright third grader can tell you this and, equally, tell that someone like Comfort misunderstands evolution at a basic level.
After that, the video goes into moralizing. Because we feel guilt, therefore there must be a conscience maker i.e. God. Atheists don't believe in God because they don't want to be morally accountable. I suppose Comfort doesn't believe in Allah because he enjoys eating pork. Such is Comfort's "reasoning."
Oh, and did you know that because the Chicken had to come before the Egg, therefore evolution is false? Yes; such is Comfort's "reasoning."
The video is mildly entertaining in an intellectual train wreck type of way and the stock footage of nature is good. Other than that it is the same old pig just with some new lipstick.