Evolution vs. God: Shaking the Foundations of Faith (2013) User Reviews

A movie completely free from substance - merely eye-candy for the religious community

[fredrik-redin · 1/10 · 10 August 2013]

Starting off with a quote from Science Daily which states that a scientific method is based on "the collection of data through observation and experimentation", the entire movie fixates on the word "observable" in this quote, and a person interviews scientists and students on the street, pushing a microphone up their face, demanding immediate "on the spot" observable evidence for evolution - which they obviously fail to take out from their pockets right there and then.

Its obvious for the rational audience that all interviews are extremely likely to have been edited in such a way as to constantly regurgitate the same belief: that there is no observable proof for the evolutionary process since we can't observe monkeys turning into humans overnight. This is off course what the religious community wants to reiterate,and it's their right to do so, however, putting the complete lack of understanding in evolution aside, its obvious the producer Ray Comfort is biased and makes little attempt to truthfully depict both sides of the argument. We see nothing but choppy segments where the person's argument is interrupted by the interviewer, or the movie cuts to a different scene - constantly prohibiting the viewers to be presented with the scientific side of the argument.

When examples of how evolution is observable is given, the interviewer states an oversimplified version of the argument which can not be mistaken for anything else but a total lack of desire from the interviewer to comprehend what is being said.

Furthermore, the interviewer constantly suggests that the conviction in evolution is itself a faith because he constantly asks if they BELIEVE in evolution, making no distinction between a belief in facts and a supernatural one.

If you're on the search of evidence for evolution, then do so, but make no mistake, there is no substance to this movie what so ever.

This movies should be called "Bananas"

[vivekkoppikar · 1/10 · 9 August 2013]

Bunch of nonsense. An utter waste of your time. It is a load of God's lap dog nonsense. Very much unlike the famed The Banana is Evidence for the existence of God, this month movie is an extended load of... well...Let me just call it nonsense. Unless Comfort does not come out saying that this is work of pure fiction and has no connection with the real world, I am compelled to call it a bunch of misleading lies. Downright a dangerous influence on the minds of kids if you happen to be one that will take the chance of showing your child this movie. Wait a minute did I just call this badly piled clips of shoots a Movie. Beg pardon.

A Creationist Deception

[koran90-762-126762 · 1/10 · 12 August 2013]

Ray Comfort (aka The banana man) is back with yet another disappointedly impotent 'critique' of Darwinian evolution. Apart from the numerous occasions of quote mining and selective editing of interviews throughout the film he has repeated his banana fiasco with both a lack of understanding of both science and evidence.

Firstly, the film makes a false dichotomy between 'God' and Evolution. The theory of evolution, like all scientific explanations is methodologically neutral and naturalistic; to make it a conflict between God and science is deceptive and unwise.

Throughout the film, Comfort interviews a series of professors and college majors and frequently asks if any of them can present 'testable', 'observable' evidence of change from one 'kind' to 'another'. They give examples of speciation but demands they show a change of 'kind'. He doesn't even define 'kind. Creationists have been unable to specify what the created kinds are. If kinds were distinct, it should be easy to distinguish between them. Instead, we find a nested hierarchy of similarities, with kinds within kinds within kinds. For example, the twelve-spotted ladybug could be placed in the twelve- spotted ladybug kind, the ladybug kind, the beetle kind, the insect kind, or any of dozens of other kinds of kind, depending on how inclusive the kind is. No matter where one sets the cutoff for how inclusive a kind is, there will be many groups just bordering on that cutoff. This pattern exactly matches the pattern expected of evolution. It does not match what creationism predicts.

Comfort lacks any elementary knowledge of biology. He asks for changes overnight that modern biologists observe after millions of years. He is easily refuted by transitional fossils such as Tiktaalik (which shows primitive fish becoming amphibians) as well as Archaeopteryx (transition between dinosaurs and birds), which show a change from 'one kind to another'. In fact paleontologists argue whether some intermediates are for instance, reptile-like mammals or mammal-like reptiles; this means there is a multitude of intermediates dicovered.

He ignorantly dismisses Darwin's finches as 'birds remaining birds' and the Lenski experiment as 'bacteria still becoming bacteria'; using the same ignorant excuse of 'created kinds'. Although major changes from one 'kind' to another do not normally happen, except gradually over hundreds of thousands of generations, a sudden origin of a new kind has been observed. A strain of cancerous human cells (called HeLa cells) have evolved to become a wild unicellular life form (Van Valen and Maiorana 1991).

The film also says that evolutionists claim the appendix is useless because they call it 'vestigial'. This is ludicrous. "Vestigial" does not mean an organ is useless. A vestige is a "trace or visible sign left by something lost or vanished". Vestigial organs are evidence for evolution because we expect evolutionary changes to be imperfect as creatures evolve to adopt new niches. Creationism cannot explain vestigial organs. They are evidence against creationism if the creator follows a basic design principle that form follows function.The appendix appears as part of the tissues of the digestive system; it is homologous to the end of the mammalian caecum. Since it does not function as part of the digestive system, it is a vestigial part of that system, no matter what other functions it may have.

The film equates an acceptance of evolution with immorality and purposely edits and selectively quotes the interviewees. However, it is a great introduction to the terrible arguments that creationists push to achieve their agenda.

It gave me a brain tumour

[jackthebaxter · 1/10 · 3 November 2013]

Aside from flagrantly editing the interviews, Ray Comfort repeatedly demonstrates a complete lack of knowledge about both evolution and science in general. He uses the word 'kind' in reference to anything from species to domain, with six different definitions given. The one student he interviewed that was studying biology answered his questions very well, and was not heard from after the first ten minutes. The interviews with the scientists were cut into three second clips and involved Ray interrupting anyone when they went to give him an answer he wouldn't like. Altogether, those four interviews comprised just over four minutes of the 'documentary'.

Examining the other people interviewed, the short clips of some people can be put together and clearly show one puzzled answer cut into four or five pieces and used in response to multiple questions.

This 'documentary' is not just brain dead, but dishonest too.

A shocking display of intellectual dishonesty (or incompetence)

[mrmaxj · 1/10 · 15 September 2013]

A reasonable person might expect that a film entitled "Evolution vs. God" would contain some discussion of the theory of evolution. Sadly, this is not the case. Instead, Ray shares clips of his interviews with professors and students, and expects that the viewer will find them so absurd as to discredit the theory of evolution. Regardless of whether the answers are satisfactory, and ignoring the fact that Ray's questions are unreasonable and belie his own lack of understanding of the theory of evolution, this approach makes no sense and does nothing to further Ray's case.

Ray's belief seems to be that if he asks a handful of people to explain evolution, and their answers are unsatisfactory, then the theory itself is bunk. There are at least two huge problems here. Firstly, not everyone who accepts a scientific principle is a good spokesperson for it. Second, many intelligent people, including some of those in this film, have attempted to impart scientific information to Ray only to find that he is simply incorrigible. He asks people to provide evidence for claims that the theory of evolution does not make, and then blames the theory when no such evidence exists. This is a thoroughly dishonest tactic.

Ray also makes a preposterous argument about how the theory of evolution is used as a justification for moral atrocities - for instance, he claims that Hitler attempted to enact natural selection. It is moments like these that make me question, as I did before, whether Ray actually knows what the theory of evolution is, or if he simply considers it a threat to his religious convictions, and therefore opposes it through any dishonest tricks necessary.

Macro evolution has no evidence, it's just an interpretation, and therefore it is a matter of faith (not science)

[michaelgray-62664 · 10/10 · 17 March 2019]

Suspiciously, all of these other anti-Christian reviews can't seem to answer the same arguments that Ray Comfort presents in his video. That speaks volumes.

Outstanding resource from the evolutionists' own mouths including professors and renowned anti-Christian sources like PZ Meyers. With all the scathing biased reviews against this video, none of them have adequately represented nor successfully refuted Ray Comfort's arguments. This video proves that evolution cannot be, by definition, "science" because it does not meet the requirements of the scientific method. Evolution is little more than an interpretation based on faulty naturalistic assumptions. Great video!

Easily debunked arguments

[Cracracracroft · 1/10 · 13 December 2018]

Ray presents the worst of the worst arguments to try and convince strangers with gas lighting techniques that a god is real. The arguments for a god are terrible and the arguments that his god is real are even worse. It really only seems he wants to convince the people on the street that evolution is a myth without "observable" evidence while trying to prove his god is real despite no observable evidence of his own. It's common misleading arguments to try and make everyone but himself look stupid. I can only imagine this was the best 30 minutes of footage he could use and there must be several hours of arguments against him he refused to include. It comes off as a smug "holier than thou" attitude that will only convince non god believers to continue to not believe.

Believe or not...

[because-of-him · 10/10 · 24 January 2014]

I have waited nearly 30 years for the pine trees in my yard to evolve into peach trees...still waiting. Evolutionist never show stages similar to the monkey to man of a cell to a rhinoceros or a cell to a giraffe or a peacock or a whale or spiders or fleas or snakes. And, every evolutionist is a pure racist because their chart of the stages of monkey to man undoubtedly leads to black people being closer to monkeys while white people are allegedly moving to a higher stage. But, those who hold to intelligent design do not accept the corrupt logic of the racist evolutionists. And, micro-biology, not available to Darwin, blows their theory away, as noted in the utterly fantastic book, Darwin's Black Box, by Michael Behe. The one-star ratings are raving rants and not objective observations.

Ray Comfort masterpiece of crap.

[NickGagnon942 · 1/10 · 30 December 2021]

Infamous crazy bigot Ray Comfort made this anti evolution propaganda. If you watched the trailer you can predict the film. Its Ray editing interviews to make him look better. Its pathetic. Watch a real science program instead.

Gradiational anger from the interviewee

[shiwoo-45698 · 1/10 · 22 September 2023]

At first, we can all see that the interviewees are very much excited or fairly delighted to be interviewed. As the video progresses, the people are progressively angered more and more to the point where they were irritated. The video editor even cut the opinions of the people who had fairly supportable opinions and even great counter opinions! The editor did not even do his bare minimum job of his work! How surprising! Poor quality edits coming from poor quality video. Even I would have a seizure watching a 38 minute long video of someone enraging randoms living their lives. If you watch through the video, the editor censors one of the interviewee, he doesn't even do a good job! We can slightly see the person's face when he first appears on the camera, and the blur doesn't even go away after the interviewee is gone! Was this video made on a windows movie maker or something? So ridiculous. I can not believe they even allowed this video to even come across the director's mind! Talking about evolution and creation now, according to them dinosaurs should be older than "God"! According to the bible, the world is around 6000 years, how on earth would the dinosaurs even exist? There are plenty of scientific evidence that a dinosaur have existed around 245 million years ago. Oh my! The dinosaurs are actually the "God" of the universe and those Christians are worshiping fishes. The video is more and more retarded as I even try to evaluate about the content.

Fantastic film

[shaolindo · 10/10 · 14 August 2013]

This movie has believers in evolution up in arms, and without anything to back up their claims except some ad hominem attacks. They seem to be under the delusion that calling people names equals good logical facts. They come on here and rate it with a low score because they know it shows how foolish they are and do not want others to see the truth.

The film itself is fantastic. Everyone from the highest level of professors in evolution to the common college student has no evidence for their believe in darwin's foolish theory. Science is fantastic, but unfortunately throughout it's history, snake oil salesmen have taught many silly theories as fact and people who do not think very deeply buy into it.

Fantastic film!

[dalessandro_c · 10/10 · 1 April 2014]

What an Awesome film! Ray Comfort interviews several Atheists, requesting that they provide evidence of Evolution. Reasonable Questions Are asked, the opportunity to answer is given generously. If it's fact, It's fact (black & white - no gray areas). These people should not need time to research answers. Ray was approaching people who study/are knowledgeable (or think they are), on the subject of evolution - not random Joes. It would be great to see Evolutionists, approach Ray and demand that he share evidence that God is real and creator of this world and everything on it... I truly believe Ray would nail it! Put your hand up if you would be willing to step up & challenge Ray Comfort in a Evolution vs God discussion, in front of the world. He wouldn't hesitate because his faith & his facts real and unwavering.

It needed to be said

[irvinetustin · 10/10 · 29 September 2013]

The film brings another side to the issue of our origin that needs to be addressed. Most people that believe in evolution only believe in it because their school teachers or their college professors taught them that evolution is a fact even though it's only a theory. Very few people have done their own research on evolution. People who believe evolution is true are putting their faith in their college professors and school teachers. They never consider the possibility that the school teachers and college professors could be wrong, and as a result the notion that we evolved from ape-like creatures could be a myth. Many times people who believe in evolution have never heard any other explanation for our origin, nor have they heard the theory of evolution challenged. It's good to consider all of the possibilities of our origin so that an informed decision can be made. I encourage everyone to watch this film with an open mind.

Convincing collection of interviews

[Horst_In_Translation · 8/10 · 7 August 2017]

"Evolution vs. God: Shaking the Foundations of Faith" is an 38-minute documentary film from 2013, so this short movie will have its 5th anniversary next year. It is written by, directed by and starring the voice of Ray Comfort and in here, he interviews several people about why they believe in evolution and do not believe in God. This involves students as well as professors. The questions he asks are spot-on and you can see how he makes a difference in some of his interviewees' minds. I also want to give a thumbs-up for the people showing up in here because they have never used verbal abuse or anything and honestly that is a common reaction when you talk to people about why they don't believe in God. And it is usually these who cannot even name a single geological era. Anyway back to this film here, I believe that one of the best points Comfort makes in here is that you need to ask questions and look for solutions. Sure you can just blindly accept what your biology book tells you, a book that was perhaps written and illustrated by people who blindly believed what other people told them. But with that approach we'd still see the Earth as a disk. Is that the right word? Anyway, you get the point. I don't think it is accurate to call the Bible a work of fiction if you have never read a single page of it. You need to get an insight into the subject before making a statement because otherwise you are not different than fake news spread by propagandist media without checking their sources for credibility. This was the second film I've seen by Mr. Comfort and I would call it superior to his film about the holocaust of unborn babies, even if that one was pretty interesting as well. I also like his interview documentary style, even if that is a subjective statement and I can see why many don't. Obviously this film here is extremely underrated on IMDb and I wonder how many of those who rated it 1/10 actually. Probably not even half. And most of the other half stopped watching before the end. And that is why they will never get it. Blinly accepting what overall consensus sells you as correct, the thought of those who are too limited inside their minds to see how limited they actually are. I give this one a major thumbs-down. One of the best documentaries from 2013 and I highly recommend it.

A really good debunk of the Evolution Theory.

[basedontruecrusader · 10/10 · 12 March 2022]

Ray comfort a Christian, goes to a near by biology college and debunks the whole Evolution Theory. He goes up to many biology professors, students. Over all a good debunk of the theory!