{"id":1136,"date":"2009-11-05T22:28:45","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T02:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2009-11-05T22:30:16","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T02:30:16","slug":"comforts-trash-is-in-floridas-yard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1136","title":{"rendered":"Comfort’s trash is in Florida’s yard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Creationist loon Ray Comfort is shipping out his own special edition of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species. If you don’t already know about it, you can read a debate<\/a> Comfort had with National Center for Science Education’s Genie Scott recently online sparked by this book.<\/p>\n

Wouldn’t you know it, but the book has Florida ties. It’s being published by a company in Alachua<\/a>. (News story published last month.) It warms my heart, though, to know that not everyone buys this trash being pushed by Comfort and his buddy Kirk Cameron.<\/p>\n

Todd LeVasseur, a third-year doctoral student in the University of Florida Department of Religion, said that trying to refute 150 years\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 worth of research is energy that could be directed towards solving issues such as poverty and global warming.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like arguing the earth is still flat,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

[Betty Smocovitis, a UF professor of history and zoology] encourages students to read the last paragraph of Darwin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Darwin never said God does not exist,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

She said Cameron isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a credible source on evolution, but he is free to share his opinion.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a free country,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He can do what he wants, and I am free to say he is out of his mind.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Creationist loon Ray Comfort is shipping out his own special edition of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species. If you don’t already know about it, you can read a debate Comfort had with National Center for Science Education’s Genie Scott recently … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-ik","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1137,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1137","url_meta":{"origin":1136,"position":0},"title":"Cleaning up Comfort’s trash","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"November 6, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"In my previous post I noted that Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron are handing out free copies of On the Origins of Species, which features an introduction filled with creationist trash, and that the book is published right here in Florida. 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