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Ray Comfort plagiarised his creationist introduction to ‘On the Origin of species’ from ‘A Brief History of Charles Darwin’ by Dr. Stan Guffey

Posted by Jim Gardner on November 4, 2009

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Kirk Cameron, Ken Ham & Ray Comfort

Ray Comfort and his side-kick Kirk Cameron recently published a heavily edited version of Charles Darwin’s ‘On the origin of species’ which contained an introduction that accused Darwin of fathering Naziism.

AIGBusted has done some digging into Comfort and Cameron’s creationist screed and discovered some considerable evidence of plagiarism.

Read more: aigbusted.blogspot.com

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7 Responses to “Ray Comfort plagiarised his creationist introduction to ‘On the Origin of species’ from ‘A Brief History of Charles Darwin’ by Dr. Stan Guffey”

  1. Nicholas Covington said

    November 4, 2009 at 12:28 PM

    Thanks for the mention!

  2. Kaybee322 said

    November 11, 2009 at 7:37 AM

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN9zpf5cT0M

    Here’s an saucy reply to Kirk’s goofball hope that people will read the Origin of Species and become converted to “Intelligent Design”.

    I think its rather funny how the fundies are trying to undermine Darwin’s theory of evolution by inserting a 50 page ‘ introduction’. Dude, everyone skips the introduction on books. Secondly, THANKS FOR THE FREE COPIES! If I come across a LivingWatersBullshit Rep passing these out, I’ll be taking a whole bunch of them, ripping the introduction out, and THEN giving it to friends and family. Ooh, there are cafes around here that have a ‘book basket’, where you can donate a book to the basket and ANYONE who wants to read one can take it with them… as long as they return it (or another book) at some point. Maybe I’ll do that!?

  3. Mike Carey said

    November 21, 2009 at 8:59 AM

    Why rip out pages? Is there any falsehood that has stood firm in the gale force of truth? Is there any truth that has been weakened by exposure to a lie? Indeed, when all ideas are on the table, those which prove themselves to be unworthy wither while truth rises.

  4. cooliocooliest said

    November 27, 2009 at 5:33 PM

    Actually, it’s a bad idea to read them as the entire thing. Four chapters showing strong evidence for evolution were actually removed from the book. =/

  5. Mike Wagner said

    December 9, 2009 at 8:06 AM

    Jim, is that your own pic of the Three Stooges?
    I’m looking for a pic of them that I can use without any copyright issues to make a humorous educational video for YouTube.
    Credit to photographer and blog can be given :)

  6. Jim Gardner said

    December 9, 2009 at 11:22 PM

    If I remember rightly, Mike, that was taken from scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/ but I’m not certain.

    PLEASE keep me informed when the video is done. :) Also, feel free to use any of my writing from here.

    Good luck.

  7. Jim Gardner said

    December 12, 2009 at 1:48 AM

    UT Professor Stan Guffey Considers Legal Action Over Use Of Charles Darwin Bio:

    “I am party to a scam,” Guffey says. “The introduction begins with a nice, sweet little biography, then degenerates into intellectually lame, lazy distortions, selective reading of the literature, picking and choosing of facts, and misreadings of the historical record.” He says Comfort “gently moves folks into the notion that they don’t want to read what comes after the introduction. He just wants his 50 pages read, 47 of which are anti-intellectual, dishonest drivel, the first three of which are pretty good because I wrote them.”

    http://www.metropulse.com/news/2009/dec/02/ut-professor-considers-legal-action-over-use-charl/

    http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/adoti/ut_professor_considers_legal_action_over_ray/

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