From Christian News Wire:

After ABC ran a story in January about hundreds of atheists videotaping themselves blaspheming the Holy Spirit, best-selling author Ray Comfort contacted the network and offered to prove God’s existence, absolutely, scientifically, without mentioning the Bible or faith. He and Kirk Cameron (co-hosts of an award-winning Christian TV program) challenged the two originators of the “Blasphemy Challenge” to a debate on the existence of God. According to Comfort, he and Cameron (an ex-atheist) are qualified to debate on the subject. Comfort had not only written a book titled “God Doesn’t Believe in Atheists”, but had spoken at Yale on the subject of atheism, and been flown by American Atheists, Inc., to their 2001 annual convention to be a platform speaker.

ABC loved the idea, and will host a debate in New York City on May 5, 2007. Moderated by Martin Bashir, the debate will be streamed LIVE on their website and will also be filmed for “Nightline.”

For those of you not familiar with Ray Comfort, he is the genius that came up with using the banana as proof of the existence of God. I’m not kidding. Watch the YouTube video of this argument here. (Nice rebuttal here.)

If they plan on using the “banana argument” as “absolute proof of God’s existence” in the debate on May 5th, they might as well not even show up.

Nightline has more here.

UPDATE 5/11/07:
The full unedited version of the debate is available here.

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