{"id":734,"date":"2013-04-06T03:21:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T03:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/?p=734"},"modified":"2013-04-06T03:21:45","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T03:21:45","slug":"ray-comfort-is-a-great-philosopher-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/2013\/04\/06\/ray-comfort-is-a-great-philosopher-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Comfort is a Great Philosopher!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, not really. But Ray Comfort has provided some fodder for one of the world&#8217;s greatest living philosophers, and Comfort&#8217;s material has even made its way into a classic philosophical treatise on evolutionary biology. I&#8217;m dead serious.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Dennett quoted a pamphelet that asked &#8220;Do you know of a building that didn&#8217;t have a builder? Do you know of a painting that didn&#8217;t have a painter?&#8221;in his famous book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/068482471X\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=068482471X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=ansingenbus-20\"><em>Darwin&#8217;s Dangerous Idea<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/IjphIzh8mo4?t=7m53s\">youtube talk<\/a>, Dennett expounds on this pamphlet, which also had a page about the banana, describing it as &#8220;the atheist&#8217;s nightmare.&#8221; Yep, that was written by the banana man himself, <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/YfucpGCm5hY\">Ray Comfort<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, Ray Comfort&#8217;s little pamphlet made into a classic book on evolution written by one of the greatest living philosophers. Neato, huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, not really. But Ray Comfort has provided some fodder for one of the world&#8217;s greatest living philosophers, and Comfort&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}