Stupid Quote of the Day: The Earth, she can’t be moved, see

Responding (in his usual sleazy way) to a skeptic who points out how the Bible proclaims that the Earth is “firm” and “immovable” and is therefore at fault as it implies the planet is fixed in space (ever heard of orbit?), Ray “Bananaman/Crocoduck” Comfort spouts more hilarious blogging fodder:

So let’s look closely at what the above verses actually say:

"He has fixed the earth firm, immovable."
"Thou hast fixed the earth immovable ..."
"He has fixed the earth firm, immovable ..."

The Bible says that the earth is immovable. It cannot be moved. So now is your chance to prove your point. Run outside and move the earth. Perhaps you and your friends could jump on it, or find a rocky outcrop and push it together.

Maybe after that little experiment you will concede that the earth is immovable.

You know, sometimes I really, honestly, wonder if he truly is being intentionally thick. Because a small part of my brain simply refuses to believe that anyone can really be that stupid. But, hope wanes.

It’s rather obvious that when the Bible refers to the Earth, it’s not talking about some rock, or a piece or part of the land, but “Earth” itself. Which, thanks to modern knowledge, we now know is a planet. So, the Bible is referring to planet Earth itself, that blue-and-white marble floating around in space on its elliptical orbit. Comfort’s derisory deflection about “pushing on a rocky outcrop” and whatever is pure willful dumbassery. It just has to be.

That, and, apparently, Comfort has never heard of such things as earthquakes, volcanoes, sinkholes, landslides, and so on – you know, all those natural (ie. “God-made”, surely) geological events that demonstrate, with rather chilling clarity, how the Earth is anything but “firm” and “immovable”. (I’d mention plate tectonics, but then, Creationists don’t believe in those, do they? Even though we can precisely calculate the ongoing separation between plates, a process that shifts entire continents by anything from 1 to 10 centimeters per year.)