In Videos: The Banana as the Atheist's Nightmare, Explained
Most of you have probably seen this video before, but if not, behold the atheist's nightmare: the banana. Yes. ...Wait, what? This video explains how bananas are obviously God's creation, reasons including the way they fit perfectly in the grasp of a human hand, and how they have built-in "tabs" at the top that makes them easy to peel. Well, ignoring the thousands of years of banana cultivation by humans, I'm totally convinced! Watch the video after the jump.
The Banana as the Atheist's Nightmare, Explained
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22 Comments:
I'm Christian, but this doesn't fly with me... sorry... This is a dumb way to try and "Prove" God exists...
ronzoni at 12:25PM on 06/13/08
I'll see your banana and raise you a coconut!
OneWallKitchen at 12:28PM on 06/13/08
I'm a Jewish skeptic and this strikes me as meshugas.
Robyn, hanks for mentioning the thousands of years of human cultivation and adaptation of the fruit for what humans regarded as favorable attributes.
Maybe the Lord loves us because he gave us these fruit for our banana splits! Oy vey.
Stushi at 12:47PM on 06/13/08
Far more obvious to me that bananas are the work of the devil...note how each one resembles a devil's horn. And note that such a beautiful fruit turns black and rotten inside...just as the dark one would want!
Dave and Stuff at 1:12PM on 06/13/08
@Dave and Stuff - ...and then God invented banana bread! :D
Carosone at 1:19PM on 06/13/08
I second Stushi's notion (and raise him 14 years of Orthodox Jewish education). As with anything in nature that works well, or the film Winged Migration,"this sort of thing is fertile ground for BOTH atheists and banana-theologians to bolster their case.
I refer you to the classic Monty Python song (below). Either take God to task for the bad stuff, or refrain from praising him for the good. To do otherwise is simply bananas.
All things dull and ugly,
All creatures short and squat,
All things rude and nasty,
The Lord God made the lot.
Each little snake that poisons,
Each little wasp that stings,
He made their brutish venom,
He made their horrid wings.
All things sick and cancerous,
All evil great and small,
All things foul and dangerous,
The Lord God made them all.
Each nasty little hornet,
Each beastly little squid,
Who made the spikey urchin,
Who made the sharks, He did.
All things scabbed and ulcerous,
All pox both great and small,
Putrid, foul and gangrenous,
The Lord God made them all
GinBlossom at 1:28PM on 06/13/08
"Anti-religious sneers are the hallmark of perpetual adolescence."
Camille Paglia
Garvey at 1:47PM on 06/13/08
"As are personal attacks not grounded in logic."
GinBlossom
GinBlossom at 2:02PM on 06/13/08
"Smug, self-righteous proclamations about how the entire universe was designed for the benefit of me, me, me are the mark of pathological solipsism"
tech9803 at 2:05PM on 06/13/08
As an aside, you do know that Paglia is an atheist, right?
GinBlossom at 2:06PM on 06/13/08
Hee. I'm with Dave & Stuff...
AnaisKoi at 2:19PM on 06/13/08
thank you for setting back Christian thought, reason, and logic back 4000 years (yes... that's before Jesus was around...)
attgig at 2:23PM on 06/13/08
He fails to explain that all the things that make a banana easy for humans to eat also make easy for...MONKEYS!
gastronormous at 2:26PM on 06/13/08
ugh..paglia. pretentious and uninformed, a great combination.
thank god for the creation of iceberg lettuce for easier packing and shipping. oh, wait...
sloppy at 3:06PM on 06/13/08
kirk cameron, how far you've fallen.
j at 3:11PM on 06/13/08
This video would make a lot more sense if those believing in the Christian God only ate bananas and nothing else.
If God were to design the food we eat for ease of eating, by his logic, wouldn't everything we eat be like a banana?
wunami at 4:00PM on 06/13/08
I'm thinking more and more that this line of reasoning proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that we evolved from apes.
Thank you, Kirk Cameron, for settling this debate.
Dave and Stuff at 4:21PM on 06/13/08
creationism is for stupid monkeys.
bisbee at 6:45PM on 06/13/08
So if I point out the fact that, prior to human intervention, bananas were generally inedible and certainly didn't fit nicely into a human hand does it mean that I have proven that god doesn't exist?
Wow, couldn't he have even bothered to google "wild banana"?
rudbeckia at 8:10PM on 06/13/08
OK, I'm going to ask a stupid question - where did bananas originate? I've always thought it was in South America and close by islands. If it were in deed a "new world" fruit - then they probably weren't affected by human "intervention" that much until after 1492. I suppose that natives could have crossed the Pacific and then gone back with some. Just wondering! ;D
nrwfos at 1:53AM on 06/14/08
So if the Banana is from God, does that mean that the Durian is from the devil?
jonfoxx at 8:20AM on 06/14/08
By the way, in an interview with Hellbound Alleee a while back, Ray Comfort conceded the banana argument:
Alleee: So what do you think- The banana thing has been going around the Internet- I don’t know if you know this-
Ray: Well, the banana thing’s kinda tongue-in-cheek. Noone should really take it too seriously.
Alleee: Okay, so- I just wanted to- because there’s been a lot of talk- even like… Penn from “Penn and Teller” is talking about this. There’s been a lot of talk about this- the banana thing about how God made it so perfectly for humans but… the biggest- the most logical argument I’ve heard and actually made myself was that God didn’t make the banana. Because… it’s called horticulture.
Ray: Where does it come from?
Alleee: Well, man- the banana originally- well, I don’t know how originally it was, but the wild banana-
Franc: It’s called the…
Alleee: Plantain, right. Before the plantain, the banana was kind of hard and not very tasty and not- not what we have designed it to fit the hand better… bananas are big and plump and sweet because of what we have done-
Ray: The thing is, I wouldn’t let the banana thing worry you.
Aaron: [laughing]
Alleee: Well, I’m just saying that… there are very few plants- and we argue with some environmentalists a lot who- who don’t believe in bioengineered food- because most food that we eat of course is farmed and is… done through horticulture and we’ve engineered these fruits and vegetables to be more tasty to us. So actually, the banana seems to be not- not made by God at this point, it’s more like… what came first, the banana or the hand? You know? Man took the banana and made it better for man, rather than the other way…
Ray: Okay, you’ve got that one. You can have the banana.
Franc: [laughing] We win! We win!
1stmakearoux at 8:33AM on 06/14/08