Comfort fights evolution by… plagiarizing

Jason Thibeault

Pharyngula covers the hilarious but wholly unsurprising fact that Ray “Bananaman” Comfort’s gambit against Darwin’s 150th anniversary is one big failure, all because of Comfort’s own moral failings.

The copy-&-paste creationist is a familiar figure in internet debates — they don’t have an original idea in their head, but they know how to copy some long screed off the internet and paste it into a comment box, almost always without attribution, or even a link back to their source. I am completely unsurprised by the fact that Ray Comfort is a plagiarist who ripped off a brief biography of Darwin.

The ridiculous and often-debunked assertions of Darwin being Hitler’s BFF and irreducible complexity being a viable line of argumentation are his own, but the actual biographical info was a complete bite. Will anything happen to him as a result? Will he be made to own his inability to do anything right?

I seriously doubt it.

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Comfort fights evolution by… plagiarizing

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