Darwinists want to burn anniversary book
A group of atheists/evolutionists are hopping mad about the distribution of a copy of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species to more than 170,000 college students on campuses across the nation right before Thanksgiving.
Author Ray Comfort discovered that the book was in public domain and published an edition with a 50-page introduction with a full explanation of the Creationist view, as taught in the Bible.
Radical atheist/evolutionist Richard Dawkins of England told one group of students to accept the book but tear out the first 50 pages because he disagrees with the introduction.
“It seems very strange that Professor Dawkins would say that my Introduction didn’t worry him at all, and in the next breath tell university students to rip it out,” Comfort said. “If, I am, as he says, an ‘ignorant fool,’ then what I have written will be nothing but ignorance and foolishness. So why is he so concerned? I think the man protesteth too much.
“There have been more than 140 different editions of On the Origin of Species and many have had Introductions. Mine simply gives an alternative. So, why the call for censorship? Why the anger? Everything I have written can be substantiated. What are atheists afraid of? The exchange of ideas is healthy.”
Atheist forums on the Internet are saying:
“Perhaps we should just call for a book burning!”
“In this instance, I would advocate book-burning.”
“I’m not into burning books, but this one deserves to be.”
Greg Laden wrote, “Start collecting those bogus-ized copies of Darwin ’s Origin being distributed by Ray Comfort. We’re low on firewood up at the cabin. It’s not that I like burning books. But this is not burning books.”
“It’s ironic that those who cry against censorship when it comes to pornography and other vices, want censorship when it comes to this one introduction,” Comfort said. “There have been 140 different editions of On the Origin of Species, and many have had introductions. So, why would they want to burn this one? There have been plans for atheists to pose as students to get a copy, to stop students from reading it. Why would they want to do that? This is America, and the free exchange of ideas is healthy.”
Comfort is the co-host of an award-winning television program (with actor Kirk Cameron), blogs daily to hundreds of atheists at “Atheist Central,” has debated atheistic evolution on ABC’s Nightline and on the BBC, and was a platform speaker at American Atheists, Inc. at their annual convention in 2001.
“It would seem that atheists see themselves as the intellectual saviors of those who haven’t the brainpower to think for themselves,” Comfort said. “It was Irish playwright and atheist, George Bernard Shaw, who rightly warned, ‘All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.’”
Comfort is the best-selling author of more than 60 books, including You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence But You Can’t Make Him Think, Nothing Created Everything (with special cover-condemnation by Dawkins), How to Know God Exists: Scientific Proof of God, God Doesn’t Believe in Atheists, and Evolution - the Fairy Tale For Grownups. His booklet The Atheist Test has sold more than a million copies.
The book is being freely given in honor of its 150th anniversary. More than 1,200 people across the country will be handing the landmark publication to future doctors, lawyers and politicians.
Comfort has not altered the original book.
“We have published his entire book,” Comfort said. “Nothing has been removed. The book that we will be giving to students is the complete edition. Charles Darwin said that both perspectives should be given, and we are giving both in a 50-page introduction. Like Darwin, we want people to read the two points of view and make up their own minds.”
The book is available to anyone.
“We didn’t plan to make the book available to the public, but there’s been so much interest, we put it on Amazon,” Comfort said. “When my last book (You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence But You Can’t Make Him Think) went on Amazon, hundreds of atheists swooped in it and gave it the lowest rating possible to stop people from buying it. They have already done the same with this book. I think it will backfire on them. People don’t like being told what not to read.”
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