{"id":30667,"date":"2016-07-15T08:09:09","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T07:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=30667"},"modified":"2025-12-12T18:35:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T18:35:23","slug":"bananas-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/bananas-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Bananas"},"content":{"rendered":"

B<\/strong>ananas<\/strong> were introduced into the Atlantis debate by Ignatius Donnelly<\/a>, who adapted the views of Otto Kuntze<\/a> and questioned[021<\/a>.57]<\/sup> whether “it was more reasonable to suppose that the plantain or banana was cultivated by the people of Atlantis and carried by their civilised agricultural colonies to the east and the west?” <\/em>Over a century later, it was still being suggested that only the existence of Atlantis could explain the global spread of the seedless, sexless fruit that we enjoy today(a)<\/span><\/sup>. David Hatcher Childress<\/a>, in his Lost Cities of Ancient Lemuria and the Pacific<\/em>[1229<\/a>]<\/sup> suggested that ancient genetic engineering led to the banana we have today. Theosophical belief is that “the banana was developed from a melon on the lost continent of Atlantis.”<\/em>(d)<\/span><\/sup> Not to be outdone, Erich von D\u00e4niken<\/a> claimed[<\/sup>0272<\/sup><\/a>.202]<\/sup> that the banana has been brought to Earth by extraterrestrials(e)<\/span><\/sup>!<\/p>\n

At the other end of the belief spectrum, Ray Comfort, a Christian creationist and televangelist, used the banana to demolish the theory of evolution. In a 2006 video clip(f) he offered up the ‘ironclad argument’ that bananas are proof of God’s intelligent design of the natural world because “the banana and the hand are perfectly made, one for the other.”<\/p>\n

“Behold, the atheists’ nightmare!” declares Comfort, before detailing the many user-friendly features of bananas, which include their “non-slip surface,” “tab at the top” for easy opening, and convenient shape, which is “even curved toward the face to make the whole process so much easier.”(f)<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n

I can only say that with such an idiotic statement, Mr. Comfort himself cannot claim to be the result of intelligent design.<\/p>\n

A more sober view of the diffusion of the banana from southeast Asia is to be found on the academia.edu<\/em> website(b)<\/span><\/sup>. The BBC also offers an article on the cultural importance of the fruit in the region(g)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

(a) <\/span><\/sup>https:\/\/thebiggestsecretsoftheworld.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/banana-fruit-that-really-should-not.html<\/a>\u00a0 https:\/\/frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.ie\/search\/label\/Bananas (link broken July 2018)<\/p>\n

(b) <\/span><\/sup>https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/26533307\/Bananas_The_Spread_of_a_Tropical_Forest_Fruit_as_an_Agricultural_Staple_The_Oxford_Handbook_of_the_Archaeology_of_Diet<\/a><\/p>\n

(c) <\/span><\/sup>http:\/\/www.mondoernesto.com\/2010\/06\/who-genetically-engineered-banana.html<\/a><\/p>\n

(d)<\/span><\/sup> https:\/\/in5d.com\/plants-trees-and-foods-brought-to-earth-by-alien-gods\/<\/a><\/p>\n

(e)<\/span><\/sup> forgetomori \u00bb Erich von Daniken: Fraud, Lies and Bananas (archive.org)<\/a><\/p>\n

(f)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/02\/24\/ray-comforts-banana-argument_n_4847082.html<\/a><\/p>\n

(g)<\/span><\/sup> (BBC<\/em> Nov 19, 2020) http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/travel\/story\/20201118-where-bananas-are-considered-sacred?referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bananas were introduced into the Atlantis debate by Ignatius Donnelly, who adapted the views of Otto Kuntze and questioned[021.57] whether “it was more reasonable to suppose that the plantain or banana was cultivated by the people of Atlantis and carried by their civilised agricultural colonies to the east and the west?” Over a century later, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4752,4754,4753,215,108,1164,7579],"class_list":["post-30667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bananas","tag-creationists","tag-daviv-hatcher-childress","tag-erich-von-daniken","tag-ignatius-donnelly","tag-otto-kuntze","tag-ray-comfort"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30667"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65646,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30667\/revisions\/65646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}