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If you were walking through Upper Sproul Plaza last Wednesday and confusedly took a copy of “On the Origin of Species,” you’re not alone.
The handouts were the culmination of a couple months’ worth of planning by Ray Comfort and others (in conjunction with the 150th anniversary of the book’s original publication and Darwin’s 200th birthday this year) to give away copies at college campuses across America—but with a twist.
As the book cover notes, there’s a “Special Introduction by Ray Comfort,” which was kind of shot down and debunked by various groups of people. Further, the original plan was to give away copies on Nov. 19 (Thursday), but that was changed to Nov. 18 in a way that wasn’t publicized until the last minute.
And if you took a copy of Origin, odds are you were also handed a bookmark and flyer addressing the 49-page-long introduction by student group SANE, which were taken from “The Don’t Diss Darwin Institute.”
But last week might not have been the best time to bring attention to Origin for any UC campus as the UCLA vice president of the Bruin Alliance of Skeptics and Secularists puts it:
They showed up at UCLA today, the Banana Man himself. I am vice president of the Bruin Alliance of Skeptics and Secularists. They definitely caught our club off balance. Comfort chose a bad time to show up though, as the UC Regents are holding a high tension conference, deciding whether to increase fees for all of UC for everyone. So emotions were a bit taut already.
Image Source: Anne Marie Schuler
Ray has a change in plans [Pharyngula]
Tags:Darwin Year 2009, On the Origin of Species, Ray Comfort, SANE
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Nov 22, 2009 at 10:15 pm
At one point of the introduction, Comfort writes “…put on the Lord Jesus Christ as you would put on a parachute — trusting in Him alone for your salvation.”
I’ve actually done that before, and I can testify that people make awful parachutes. At least he broke my fall. Poor chap, he’s the one who should have been given the Darwin award.