Kirk Cameron's 'Origin Of Species' Plan: Ex-Actor To Distribute 50,000 Altered Darwin Books Read m

Kirk Cameron, best known for his role in the 1980s sitcom Growing Pains, now spends much of his time advocating for far-right Christian evangelical causes.

In a video posted recently to YouTube, Cameron lays out a plan to subvert 'Darwin Day' on November 22, 2009 -- a date marking the 150th anniversary of the publishing of Charles Darwin's "Origin of Species." Cameron says that he and like-minded activists plan to deliver 50,000 copies of an altered version of Darwin's book to students at dozens of U.S. universities.

Cameron explains that this "very special" edition of the "Origin of Species" will include an introduction explaining "Adolf Hitler's undeniable connection" to the theory of evolution, and highlighting "Darwin's racism" and "his disdain for women." Cameron's edition also exposes the "many hoaxes" of evolutionary theory, while presenting a "balanced view of Creationism."


Here: <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/22/kirk-camerons-origin-of-s_n_294349.html>

ZOMGitsCriss response is pretty funny too. :rofl:

of that family I would hoist his butt.

My bio-egineering friend has the copy of the creationist Textbook they sent to the John Hopkins PHD class.

Each year they get a new book filled with nonsense.

Just look up "atheist banana" or "ray comfort banana" on youtube.

:rofl:

Edited to add link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z-OLG0KyR4

:rofl:

lol keyboard spraying funny.

I don't want to tell you how to do your job, but I had a very hard time opening a cow for my dinner last night.

Signed,

A dissatisfied customer

Have evolved with human assistance to be better food products. The bananas at a Chiquita plantation are not the same as bananas found in the wild 6000 years ago.

It is shaped like a banana and also easy to hold. God wants me to play with myself because he made my pecker in the shape of a banana. Behold God's beautiful creation!!

all those people who lived so long in the bible. Dontcha know that if you live for hundreds of years your bones get thick and your eyebrow ridges become prominent because the bones continue to grow? There you have it.

Was it beyond what was normal for a Victorian male of his social status and education? 'Cause other than her Maj., disdain for women was a pretty normal thing in that time and place.

:sarcasm:

I don't think she was either displaying idiocy or suggesting it was scandalous, she did appear to be laying a little blame at religions doorstep for it though.

We are all products of our time and environment. Attitudes and opinions of Darwin--as well as anyone in the past--must be viewed in the context of their times and the knowledge and information that would have been available to the person.

I'm reading the PDF of the new introduction. Only about 8 pages in, and its hinting that 3 of Darwin's kids were cut down young by God to punish him.

organized religions have historically set the rules and a case could be made in I think that they have prevented more intelligent social norms from developing sooner.

I disagreed with some criticism here of the video reply to Cameron posted at the article. If you watch that video I think you would get it. I think the person that did the video reply did a fine job at it.

speed misreading.

In the '80s, no less.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0462809/

The actor, Andrew Koenig, is the son of Walter Koenig, who played Chekov.

No?

If religion makes you a more spiritually aware and fulfilled person, do what you like, be what you want to be and all that.

Uh, but leave science and evolution the hell out of that party . . . savvy? The two have ZILCH to do with each other, Mike Seaver.

That explains rain to a creationist!! Oh sorry, you said "tinkering"!

The Supply-Side Jesus, that is.



http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/09/17_franken.html

are you saying Darwin's book has evolved over the last 150 years to the version you are handing out? :evilgrin:

loved it.

Hope it goes totally viral.

so threatened.

Try saying, "Gosh, all the people in my Bible study would love one of these. Could I have ten? or more?" Thank them profusely and then proceed directly to the nearest recycle bin.

Just rip out the 50 pages and then give them away to friends and family. :D

Just think how many food banks could be stocked with the money it takes to print those books. How wasteful.

pun intended.

Sid

highlighting the parts used by hitler, racists, and misogynists.


I'm serious, don't do that.

Really, don't.

certainly mind altering with pervasive long term effects.

It's the DEADLIEST drug.

Fundamentalism is like an infectious disease..... :crazy:

Guys, don't you get it? Cameron has already proven that evolution is false, because there has never been a crocoduck! What an elegant refutation of a century of evolutionary science!

http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Crocoduck






(Do I really need to label this as sarcasm? Okay, then: :sarcasm:

so we are just going to crayon the pages."

"Adolf Hitler's undeniable connection" to the theory of evolution"...:eyes: The Origin Of Species was written long before Hitler showed up and his view on Evolution was fucked up.

Kirk Cameron is an annoying hack.

PS: Dawkins new book is out "The Greatest Show on Earth"..get a copy!!

whether Cameron and his friends like it or not.


Tikki

It has to be that, because American evangelicals hardly have room to complain about someone else being sexist. They've been trying to subtly plant the Darwin Was Gay seed for a looooong time now. As if being gay would somehow make him less credible as a thinker and a scientist.

Fundies, meet Alan Turing--a gay scientist and thinker who saved ALL of our asses once upon a time.

This isn't hot guys.com? :blush:

Wow, TV show kids have really done well for themselves.

:eyes:

:rofl:

... Creationists are fond of laying the blame for Nazi eugenics on Charles Darwin ... The main connections that all three authors make between Darwinism and eugenics is that Francis Galton, an early proponent of eugenics, was Darwin's cousin and that Ernst Haeckel, a German biologist who championed evolution and maintained a long correspondence with the English naturalist, was a primary source for Nazi eugenic policies ... The Galton connection is quite obviously baseless, for surely no one can be held responsible for something their cousin promotes ... The second claim, about Haeckel's foundation for Nazi race biology, is simply wrong ... The reality is that, while one German academic named Heinz Brücher did argue that Haeckel's Darwinism meshed with Hitler's racial attitudes, this view was immediately quashed by the guardians of party doctrine. Günther Hecht, official representative for the National Socialist Party's Department of Race-Politics (Rassenpolitischen Amt der NSDAP), insisted in the Reich's official scientific journal: The party and its representatives must not only reject a part of the Haeckelian conception--other parts of it have occasionally been advanced--but, more generally, every internal party dispute that involves the particulars of research and the teachings of Haeckel must cease. The reason for this rejection may have been the fact that Haeckel stood out among his contemporaries for his expression of Judenfreundschaft (friendliness toward Jews) or because of his criticisms of the military during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871. A more important reason is probably the fact that Nazi racial views had no connection with specific evolutionary concepts like transmutation of species or the animal origins of human beings ...

http://scienceblogs.com/primatediaries/2009/07/darwins_connection_to_nazi_eug.php

Amazing how those who supposedly revere the Bible can't seem to follow it's simplest concepts. Hypocrites.

It's that new kind of Xianity and the ends justify the means.

It is well known that Darwin would be considered a racist by today's standards. It wasn't considered racist back then, they were just trying to figure out how people got to be the way they were.

... is a better actor, and got the role of Marty McFly.

I can just imagine him in bed at night... "God! I hate Michael J Fox!"

But I'm the type who invites Jehovas Witnesses into my home for a nice long talk about conversion... Of them.. ;)