Everybody point and laugh at Ray Comfort

[charlie]

The best value in creationist cartoonery just got better. He's made an ass of himself again.

UT Professor Considers Legal Action Over Use Of Charles Darwin Bio

...“Would you like me to autograph this?” Guffey asked the distributors, telling them he is one of the authors, albeit unacknowledged. Since spring, e-mails had been trickling in alerting him to extensive similarities between the first three pages of the edition’s introduction and “A Brief History of Charles Darwin,” which Guffey wrote in 1997 for UT’s first Darwin Day event. He wrote the biography, handed out on campus each February and available through the Darwin Day website, “to make Darwin accessible to people who thought Darwin was a devil, to make him human.”

It seems to have appealed to New Zealand-born evangelist Ray Comfort, who wrote a 50-page introduction for Florida publisher Bridge-Logos’ reissue of Darwin’s treatise on evolution. Bridge-Logos lists dozens of titles by Comfort in its catalog, including some co-authored by actor Kirk Cameron, who also co-hosts a television series with Comfort. Guffey is not acknowledged in the book, but the introduction begins with his biography of Darwin. A few sentences were chopped or shortened, and a paragraph on Darwin’s youth was rearranged and reworded, but most of the passage appears taken directly from Guffey.
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“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.”
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“I would like to engage him in intellectual combat, but it wouldn’t be fair,” Guffey says. “If he were to play by the rules of reason and logic, I would whoop his ass, but he’s not constrained by those rules, so it wouldn’t be fair to me.” Guffey is preparing a cease-and-desist letter through an attorney to prevent further distribution of the book and is contemplating further legal action.

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

Edit: Wait, there's more...

Origin of Species' campaign enrages atheists

An angry backlash from atheists has prompted best-selling author Ray Comfort to stop answering questions about a special edition of Charles Darwin's "Origin of the Species" he plans to give away on university campuses this fall.

"From now on I will refuse to answer questions about the book or its contents," Comfort said, "because there is such a deep-rooted anger in the atheist world about this publication."

"They desperately want to stop us," he said, "and I don't want to give away any further details regarding the campaign."...

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=111563

Thou shalt not steal, Ray.

What, you can't hear me because there's a banana in your ear?

[DeSwiss]

1. Oh noes.....

...I've got something way better than just laughing at silly 'Ol Ray. "Here Ray, have a piece of fruit. The way god intended."



- "But watch the seeds though, cause I hear that they're hell to get out from in-between your teeth."

K&R

[progressoid]

2. Too bad people actually take him seriously.

[trotsky]

3. Lying for Jesus is good! n/t

[pokerfan]

4. Then you'll enjoy this...

The Origin of Stupidity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmHN3JtyUXg