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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-18-09 12:26 PM
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Ray Comfort is dropping his ID-ified Origin of Species bomb a day early
To counter the counterattack planned for tomorrow, his original ID-Day. Are there any DUers at universities where the Comfortites are out in force?

From Pharyngula:

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/scienceblogs/pharyngula/~3/nlRM0tofkuA/ray_has_a_change_in_plans.php

Apparently, because people had plans to counter some of Ray Comfort's Origin giveaway — which was announced to occur on the 19th — Comfort is giving them away today. I've been getting reports from various universities that his minions are at work right now, as in this photo from Oxford.



Get out and grab yours now!
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-18-09 12:27 PM
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1. If he's giving them out for free
You can use them as door stops or kindling.
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-18-09 12:29 PM
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2. After you rip out the first 19 pages or so it's the regular book.
So you can fix their little jaggoff easily.
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Vincardog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-18-09 12:29 PM
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3. There is nothing wrong with the book. Just remove the propaganda attached.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-18-09 12:35 PM
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5. I don't know if the book is any good. I've heard it's abridged or otherwise flawed.
It doesn't include Darwin's introduction, for example. One early version of it was at least two chapters short and was missing Darwin's famous branch drawing:
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Vincardog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-18-09 12:42 PM
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9. Why not scamper on over and grab a few? That Way we can see if it only needs a flawed "introduction
removed or if they have committed real copyright infringement.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-18-09 12:45 PM
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10. The beauty of their plan is there is no copyright infringement on a work in the public domain.
Of course the idiocy of their plan is the plan itself.
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anigbrowl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-18-09 05:39 PM
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17. Nobody owns copyright on 'The Origin of Species'. It's way too old for that.
Anything published before 1923 is in the public domain, and cannot be copyrighted.
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EOTE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-18-09 12:33 PM
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4. I want one so badly.
You never know, they may be worth a mint some day. Perhaps after Mr. Comfort has an epiphany and realizes his entire life's work has been a joke. I wonder how many people will be picking these up with the sole intention of skipping the fictional preface.
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Quantess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-18-09 05:10 PM
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16. I know, it sounds like a fountain of ironic humor.
It'll probably be a kitschy collectors item in 20 years.
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enlightenment Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-18-09 12:35 PM
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6. Perhaps Dr. Dawkins (or Chris Hutchins) should
publish a copy of the Bible with a forward . . .
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-18-09 12:37 PM
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7. Ever read the Jefferson Bible?
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-18-09 12:48 PM
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11. But the Jefferson Bible is worth reading
and makes some type of rhetorical sense, even if you don't agree with it.

Darwin, OTOH, must be spinning in his grave to have his magnum opus destroyed so.
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enlightenment Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-18-09 04:49 PM
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13. Yep.
An interesting take (as is the "Woman's Bible" written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton).

I think a Dawkins or Hutchins foreword would be a hoot, though!
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Lucy Goosey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-18-09 12:38 PM
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8. This is just so strange to me...
If someone handed me one of those, I'd thank them, then rip out the propaganda pages right there and hand them back.
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-18-09 12:49 PM
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12. I'm almost curious
not curious enough to buy it mind you, but I'm almost curious about what they thought they should change.
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immoderate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-18-09 04:55 PM
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14. No change, AFAIK, just a preface by Ray "Banana Man" Comfort
I would love to have one, asuming it's an unadulterated Origin.

--imm
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-18-09 05:02 PM
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15. I will be forever grateful to General J.C. Christian
...for creating this animated gif:
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