The Atheist Delusion

Ugh, I don't even know what to say.

The filmmaker's stance is simply not logical and doesn't hold up to even the slightest intellectual reasoning or scientific process. Fitting, I guess, since his belief system is basically the opposite of scientific.

Smarmy, shifty wordplay and mind games on behalf of the extremely manipulative interviewer utterly invalidate any answers given by the unwitting interviewees, which is a shame, because so many of them seem to be quite rational, intelligent people.

To any non-theist, skeptic, critical thinker, or otherwise logical person, this movie is an utter joke. I was hoping there might be something to ponder, to contemplate, to question. But no. There was only the usual intelligent design propaganda and flawed reasoning over and over again.

Not worth watching.

People already familiar with Comfort's previous efforts will know the drill here, and it's more of the same. On a positive point, this film does have better production values than the others.

As has already been noted, this is just the same old Ray. Same old arguments (some presented differently so as to appear new), and the same old intellectual dishonesty and stone cold ignorance that we've come to expect from this particular antipodean reality-dodger, who doesn't understand what modern bananas are, and thinks calling him a "bibliophile" is a serious insult.

If you are an honest Christian, looking for a serious argument against atheism, please do look elsewhere. I'd like to think that most run-of- the-mill Christians are more honest than Ray Comfort could ever hope to be. If you swallowed Ray's promises of this being some kind of death blow to atheism, then I am afraid (but not surprised) that you have been lied to (again). I would be very surprised if any well educated Christians would fall for this kindergarten level nonsense.

To any well read atheists who are considering watching this; please ensure your head is well protected from the inevitable pounding it will receive from banging it against a desk, or perhaps wear boxing gloves to protect your hands and face from too much face-palming.

This film proves only one thing; that Comfort is a very good salesman and film editor.

Was actually hoping for more out of this. There was a lot of misleading information, a lot of he said, she said, basically smoke and mirrors and no facts at all.

Was really hoping to see something big where I could get and based information from, not until the end is when I realized I could never use this as base for something (or to even have an interesting argument and discussion about).

If you are trying to learn about the Bible, how Atheist think, how religious people think and simple trying to get some facts and information related to the topics, this movie is recommended. This way you will also see how awful it was and why I felt really bad without any hope for it whatsoever.

Ray Comfort is one of those people that at first look you want to like. He has even demonstrated some sense of humor at times, for instance, in the hilarious incident with the Banana where he too the Banana as being the perfect design by God only to have people point out to him that Bananas were essentially a domesticated fruit created my men and science. Some would have ranted and raved, Ray took it pretty well, at least publicly.

Whenever Ray makes a new movie he reminds me of a card dealer. His message is almost always the same and he mainly reshuffles the same deck of cards over and over: atheists are nasty people, if science cannot explain even a very in aspect of even a well-understood theory, then God is at work behind the scenes, he spends more time attacking atheism than he does making a case for his own beliefs.

This movie is no different.

Some time ago, Ray interviewed a number of prominent scientists and a few regular people. He then proceeded to edit those interviews so that he could turn the interviews into a puppet show where he was the puppet master.

That's when any respect I might have had for Ray Comfort disappeared, and since then I cannot trust a single thing he says.

I have studied filmmaking and video editing and I know very well how easy it is to edit an interview just so and have the subject say the exact opposite of what they meant. I don;t know if that trick was used here, I would need the raw footage to be sure, but since that was done by him in another movie, I have to assume he did it here too.

That's simply not acceptable. We can disagree, even vehemently, but when you cheat you lose any respect you might have deserved and Ray Comfort cheated. Did he cheat in this movie? I think so but I cannot know for sure yet. But he cheated in the past and he wasn't the least bit sorry when he was caught red-handed.

Certainly, this is a movie that deserves a negative score, but I have decided to give it 2 stars because the production values are a bit better than the norm.

It is very sad that people like Ray Comfort find it necessary to lie to make their god relevant. No one really cares what Ray Comfort or his cohorts believe. It's a free country, but in their case, the propaganda's final object is to take their beliefs and turn them into school curriculum and secular laws. That we cannot have.

I wonder if he knows the meaning of tautology: repeating the same concept or assertion using different phrasing or terminology, so that the proposition as stated is logically irrefutable, while obscuring the lack of evidence or valid reasoning supporting the stated conclusion.

His assertion that "complexity requires a designer" is a basic fallacious argument. The fact that DNA is the "code book" of life does not imply intent or design. Each step in evolution is an imperceptible change; countless minuscule changes over billions of years add up to the vast range of living things that we know today. Simply saying "God did it" is childish ignorance.

Mr Comfort is an articulate speaker and no doubt impresses the young people be interviews, while putting them under pressure to respond without the time to reflect. I suspect there were others who were not so beguiled. He's in the privileged position of being able to select the clips to include in his film. That's called cherry picking.

He should try reading books other than his favourite collection of myths and legends.

A complete waste of time.