Nightline (ABC) marked the first "Nightline Face-Off," in which, according to a press release, "hot topics get discussed among prominent voices in their field."
This inaugural segment also came billed as the first network-news debate about the existence of God. If he or she does exist and is just, it will be the last. Representing the Supreme Being were evangelical minister Ray Comfort and actor Kirk Cameron—Mike Seaver on 123 episodes of the sitcom Growing Pains and, more recently, Buck Williams in three films adapted from the apocalyptic Left Behind novels.
Together, Comfort and Cameron host The Way of the Master, a syndicated show most notable for discovering distasteful ways to combine street preaching and getting belligerent. Nightline dug up some footage of Comfort and Cameron trying to save the soul of an overtanned transvestite.
Comfort and Cameron came up with an interesting analogy about God. They view the Earth as a painting and therefore there must be a painter: God. Of course, anyone who understands basic logic knows that although an analogy may be useful in making a point, analogies aren't necessarily logical and there are many false analogies.
Let's take a deeper look. If the painter, God, painted, the Earth, who painted the painter? This argument eventually leads to the conclusion that either the painter or the painting evolved spontaneously. If you are religious, you would prefer the former as the solution. If you believe science offers a better explanation, you would prefer the explanation that evolution offers; life evolved on the Earth slowly over billions of years.
Of course, the clerics suggest God has always been there, but that is a matter of faith. At one time scientists believed the universe had always been here, too, but red shifts in stars made it clear all of the stars are moving away from each other that supported a 'big bang' theory.
The third explanation is the one that Secular Human prefers. Men invented God. Think about it!
source: Democratic Underground
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