Evolutionist Fundies and Darwin in the public domain
A smart strategy, relayed by Alisa Harris in World...
And funny, given Richard Dawkins and Evolutionist fundies playing the part of book-burner!
Richard Dawkins is suggesting that students rip out part of the latest edition of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species—the Christian introduction challenging Darwin's theories.
Frustrated that students are getting a "lopsided view of their origins," author and evangelist Ray Comfort realized that On the Origin of Species was in the public domain, which meant he could publish his own edition with his own introduction and distribute it across college and university campuses. He wrote a 54-page introduction challenging Darwin's views and with the help of evangelism organization Living Waters, recruited 1,200 volunteers to distribute 170,000 books at 100 universities....
Because of Dawkins' suggestion and other talk of book burnings and protests, Living Waters decided to move up the date of distribution—from publicly announced Nov. 19 to Nov. 18. Comfort said a UCLA student protester told him, "You're not supposed to be here today. We're not ready."...Living Waters will continue to print and distribute its edition across college campuses, but the when and where is secret, Comfort said: "Atheists will be trying to find out what universities we're going to visit and when we're going to visit them, but they have more chance of flossing the teeth of a lion at the L.A. zoo at feeding time than they have of getting that information."
posted by Eric Schansberg @ 11:13 PM
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4 Comments:
Perhaps secularists should take a public domain Bible translation and distribute it with an introduction explaining why belief in the Bible is untenable. Certainly, that would be much better than book-burning.
By the way, the Wikipedia article on Ray Comfort includes two interesting links, one to an article about a University of Tennessee biology lecturer who says Comfort plagiarized him in his Darwin introduction; and the other to a column by Eugenie Scott, who says the Comfort edition of Darwin she received to review happened to omit four of the most convincing chapters of Origin of Species.
Leaving out chapters would be ironic and unfortunate...
Darwinian Zealots -- now they're destroying books!
Quite Amusing
Regarding William's comment:
"Perhaps secularists should take a public domain Bible translation and distribute it with an introduction explaining why belief in the Bible is untenable. Certainly, that would be much better than book-burning."
...Not a bad idea. This would probably prompt some otherwise uninterested people to actually research the credibility of the Scriptures and would no doubt make believers out of more than a few.
So, what is Dawkins afraid of?
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