Originally by barehl on the JREF Forum.
Let's try applying Kent Hovind's logic and speaking style to coffee.
Have you ever thought about where coffee came from? I don't mean the bean which obviously comes from a tree. But, where did the idea come from to make a drink from it? I'm going to show you that it wasn't possible for this to happen and therefore coffee must have a supernatural origin.
Raw coffee beans are inside of fruit on coffee trees. That's the first odd thing. Can you name any other time where we throw away the fruit and keep the seeds? Imagine if you had a cherry tree or a peach tree and you threw away the fruit and kept the seeds. Everyone would think you were crazy. And you can't even use these seeds in raw form; they have to be roasted first. So, now we have two levels of crazy: I'm keeping the seeds and then I decide to roast them until they turn dark like burnt toast...and we all know how good burnt toast is.
But we still aren't there yet because you can't make coffee with coffee beans even after you roast them; you need a coffee grinder. So now imagine that some craftsman or tinkerer hears that some crazy guy is keeping seeds and roasting them and so he decides to make a contraption that will grind them up even though there is still nothing you can do with them.
We need a coffee pot. Now coffee pots are complex devices. They require a basket with holes of just the right size. If the holes are too small the water won't run out fast enough and the basket will overflow and get grounds in the coffee. But if the holes are too big then the grounds will fall through anyway. Can you imagine how much time it would take just to get the basket and holes the right size? Then on the bottom of the coffee pot there is a chamber that gets very hot which causes the water to boil. This water then shoots up a tube and falls down into the basket. To keep the water moving in one direction you have to have a valve to let more water in after the first quantity gets pushed up the tube. If you don't have this valve then the bottom chamber will just boil dry and the coffee won't percolate. The tube also has to be the right size. If it is too big then the boiling water won't reach the top. If it's too small then the pressure will build up and the chamber will explode. This is very complicated; you would need an engineer.
So imagine that you find an engineer to to design your burnt seed percolating device and he is going to spend time experimenting while risking being injured by an explosion to make a machine that has no value without the seeds that some crazy guy roasted and a coffee grinder that someone else built based on the idea that it might make a drink that no one has ever tasted? Coffee is obviously irreducibly complex and clearly, this never happened. The idea of coffee along with the devices and procedures to make coffee must have had a supernatural origin.
