Dear Editor,
Many organizations around the world have been holding various activities throughout this year to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s book The Origin of Species.
The activities of a certain organization give me reasons for concern. Living Waters, an evangelical Creationist ministry, plans to celebrate the occasion in late November by handing out 100,000 free copies of Darwin’s book to college students across America and Canada, complete with an introduction by Ray Comfort, the staunch defender of Creationism.
I see problems with these books. The deceptive introduction supposedly “exposes atheistic evolution’s many hoaxes and the unscientific belief that nothing created everything,” and links Darwin's ideas to Hitler. The books themselves make no indication on their covers that they contain such an introduction. I cannot help but think that Comfort is deceiving students about what he is offering.
The University of New Brunswick is one of the universities in Canada that Living Waters intends to target. My group, the Fredericton Freethinkers is planning to counter the Living Waters outreach by offering material that disputes the claims that Comfort makes in his introduction. We encourage any help and support.
Sincerely,
Ian Andreas Miller
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