Argument from Food
What is this weird food fetish creationists have? The following are actual creationist videos that attempt to argue for the existence of God from food.
Argument from Banana
• The modern banana was created by selective breeding and can no longer even reproduce without human help.
Argument from Peanut Butter
• Proposing that the theory of evolution predicts that new life may spontaneously arise in peanut butter shows an utter lack of understanding of evolution …and all science, for that matter.
Argument from TitCitrus
• Apophenia is a common and well-understood psychological phenomenon.
• Odd how they start by saying that “whole foods” resemble bodily organs, and then their first example is sliced carrots. Hmm… whole carrots look like…
• Neither bones nor celery are 23% sodium.
• Funny how they mention “mammary glands” but don’t say what they think citrus does to them… perhaps I should lay off the oranges.
Argument from Pickle
Update! July 20, 2008
• OK, so this isn’t so much an argument as it is a metaphor, but it is a hilarious misappropriation of a classic science classroom demonstration.
• I love how his pickle only lights up on one end— I’ll leave you to ponder which end this would represent in real, live Christians, many of whom clearly have a bad case of pickle envy.
• Come on down! The Host Barn is serving their signature sandwiches— now with an electrocuted pickle on the side! Mmm… snackreligious.
• ”The pickle that burns twice as bright, burns only half as long.”
May 9th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
I had no idea about the coconut link to Old Nick…
May 9th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Wow… I wondered where they could come up with such grossly wrong information, so I just did some hunting around on celery. The only source I could find for their celery ‘facts’ was an entry in a “make money while you show and tell” web site that said exactly the same thing as the video and had no upvotes (incapable of being downvoted, and the site stank of being a pyramid scheme anyway).
From what I gathered looking at multiple other sources, celery is about 0.1% sodium, isn’t high in anything that specifically helps bones (there’s a lot of vitamin K, which may or may not be useful to bones, and some calcium) but it’s mainly a low calorie source of dietary fiber. Medicinally the seeds (which aren’t the stalks) are good diuretics, and generally celery and it’s seeds help your blood, liver, kidneys, and urinary tract more than anything else.
Plus, celery doesn’t actually resemble bone at all.
On the other hand, mandrake root can look like a little human figure, so it must be the best thing to eat for the whole body of anyone who believes this stuff.
May 10th, 2008 at 6:11 am
While I do find it pathetic to state false information (such as the sodium bone celery comparison) as proof of design, I also find it interesting that people would ridicule another person for finding similarities between the natural world (i.e. food) and the human body. Considering that humans and daffodils share about 1/3 the same DNA! (Jonathan Marks- “What it really means to be 99% Chimpanzee”) If the natural world shows this much DNA similarity to that of humans, than it would be expected to see similarity between the structure of some food and some human parts.
Just saying.
May 10th, 2008 at 9:09 am
Jonathan,
In case you haven’t noticed all carbon based life forms have some amount of common DNA with humans and every other life form on the planet.
Think about that. Health diets are essential in maintaining good health, but that doesn’t mean there is some mystical link between food and our individual body parts as presented above.
May 10th, 2008 at 9:23 am
Elementalmuse,
“In case you haven’t noticed all carbon based life forms have some amount of common DNA with humans and every other life form on the planet.”
Umm? That was exactly my point!
“Health diets are essential in maintaining good health, but that doesn’t mean there is some mystical link between food and our individual body parts as presented above.”
I do not seem to remember saying there is any “mystical link between food and our individual body parts.”
To better understand my views check out the Evolution thread under General SciTech Discussion on the Ironwolf Forum.
http://ironwolf.dangerousgames.com/forum/index.php/board,21.0.html
May 10th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Jonathan,
This is the statement that gave me the impression you were perhaps claiming that the above referenced materials deserved some sort of respectful exclusion from critical review.
I also did not imply that you had made the claim of a *mystical link* rather that the videos had.
July 22nd, 2008 at 10:57 am
Wow, What an impressive collection of bunk. Who knew anyone would even be willing to stand up and propagate this tripe, let alone the illustrious panel you have assembled. Yeah, there has to be some collective psychological source of the food correlation. Or maybe not, maybe they’re just riffing off of each other in some moronic blind faith driven meme frenzy accessible through inexpensive props. That is after all what many have been taught to do and rewarded for.