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Ray Comfort, plagiarist and creationist evangelist, is currently (9:30AM) distributing a modified version of The Origin of the Species at the University of Regina campus (and many other North American colleges and universities). I spoke with a man who handed me a copy, and a copy to a professor on his way to a class. We both asked the man which organization was distributing the book, and he evaded the question, telling us to “read the first 50 pages”, and we’d figure it out. (The men at the UofR all looked a lot like the guy in the photo, maybe they’re clones.)

I did even better than that, I flipped through the first 50, and on my way back to the library I heard a student telling his friend that the book is a fake — missing portions of The Origin of the Species. I returned with my camera, and further questioned the 4 men (minus the original) as to their intentions. Security had since asked them to stop distributing the books, but they were letting students grab them unassisted. They told me that there were 1000 copies to distribute, and over 120,000 everywhere in North America being given out. The price on the back of the book is $4.99 (no indication of US or C$). Bridge Logos Foundation is the publisher.

Would you trust a book from a plagiarist author like Comfort? Comfort’s book would get him kicked out of university if he turned it in as an assignment. There’s no easy way to tell if the book I have in my hands is the “2nd printing” which supposedly is complete. If I have the first printing, I know it would not be complete. If you’re going to read The Origin, get it for free at the library instead and recycle Comfort’s junk.