In spite of his well deserved reputation, I never paid too much attention to Ray Comfort. I was somewhat familiar with him, and occasionally used his "good person test", but for a long time, everything I knew about his ministry was "second hand", as in discussed by other Christians. However, at some point around August 2019, his videos started showing up in my YouTube feed, and so I happened to watch his video "The Fool: The true "banana man" story". This video tells the story of how Ray came to be known as Banana Man in the atheist world. For years, Ray would make a joke about bananas being atheist's worst nightmare, because it's so well designed for the hand, much like a coke can.
This was a very obvious joke, which was often performed in front of a live, usually Christian audience, who of course understood that it was pure satire. However, when performed in front of a camera that didn't laugh, some atheists got hold of it, claimed Ray was being completely serious, and began to respond to the joke as if it was a completely serious argument.
One of the responses to Ray's joke was that bananas used to look very different. They fit our hands well now, but used to look a bit more like a green, deformed eggplant. I was extremely sceptical, but I suddenly realised I needn't be. It's entirely possible that bananas once looked like they did in the video. There's absolutely no reason they couldn't, and it would even fit into the Creationist worldview quite nicely.
There is a saying: "If X told me the sky was blue, I'd have to go outside to check." The saying indicates that the individual or body is so well known for making untrustworthy statements that their testimony can make you question even the most plausible things, including facts you know well. It has now got to the point where an Evolutionist's word does exactly the same to me. Ok, so maybe I'd believe them when they say the sky is blue, but when they tell me bananas used to be green and more of an oval shape? Suddenly I'm far more sceptical than I need to be.
And there's a reason for this. It's because for more than 150 years, Evolutionists have been making up story after fantasy after fairy tale, making all sorts of extravagant claims that are not only implausible, but absolutely impossible. And merely questioning it supposedly makes you the idiot.
Evolutionists are also rarely content to just admit they don't know something. Gaps in their knowledge must be filled in, even if they have to "reconstruct" (fabricate) entire "transitional forms" and other narratives based on virtually non-existent evidence. Nebraska Man, for example, was a pig. Not just a pig, but a single tooth from a pig. This one tooth was used to imagine an entire family of hominids. And this isn't a habit that they left in the 1920s. Just recently, a footprint discovered in Chile has been used to invent a whole new species of human: Hominipes modernus.
Evolutionists make up so many stories, including claiming that dinosaurs evolved into birds, that it is becoming harder and harder to believe their more plausible stories, such as bananas "evolving" into... bananas. This is tragic, but the truth is, it shouldn't surprise any Bible believer. The book of Romans tells us that man suppresses the truth in unrighteousness, turning to worship the creation rather than the Creator. As the saying goes, "if you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything". In refusing to stand for God, Evolutionists have fallen for some of the most awe inspiring absurdities.
But fact is often stranger than fiction, and I'm going to tell you now, as insane as Evolution is, it is still far more comprehensible than the truth. Why? Look at every other religion. Even corruptions of Christianity tend to put a lot of focus on man trying to earn God's love and respect. But in Christianity, not only is it God who reaches out to man, but the way in which He does it is gloriously bewildering. We have a God who looks upon us, sees our sin, loves us anyway and reaches out to us, paying the highest price for our redemption, and the only thing He asks in order for us to receive that redemption is faith. And we often reject even that. And not just a simple "I don't believe people can rise from the dead, but I don't know a whole lot more". No, it goes as far as "not only did the Son of God not rise from the dead, but we share a common ancestor with the flu virus". And what does He do? What does God, the King of kings and Lord of lords, say to those who believe this nonsense? "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved". There is no backup plan, there is no extra payment to be made, there is no extra penance you have to pay yourself, Evolutionists still have the same Gospel as those who were raised in the faith from birth to salvation. That's a truth that is stranger than fiction, but the truth it is. The question is, will you take it before it's too late?