Banana

“Behold, the atheist’s nightmare,” declares Ray Comfort, an Australian evangelist, as he holds up a banana in a hugely popular video on YouTube. The fruit, he says, testifies to God’s creative genius. It comes with a colour-coding system that shows when it is ready to eat (green is too early, black too late); an easily gripped, biodegradable wrapper; and a ‘tab at the top’ which, unlike that on a can of soda, works so well that when you pull it ‘the contents don’t squirt in your face’.

Not everyone is convinced. One video response points out that the banana only achieved its user-friendly qualities through evolution over many centuries of farming.

[Citation: Text reproduced from Viva Vivanno – Innovative things to do with a banana, article in Economist.com, 2 September 2008.]

[Correction: Ray Comfort is not Australian (as the Economist.com article states). He was born in New Zealand and now lives in California, USA.]