I am fuming!

I picked up a copy of The Origin of Species 150th Anniversary Edition with Special Introduction by Ray Comfort today after reading online about the planned book release.  The introduction disturbs me greatly.  His arguments are laughable at best and pale in comparison with the scientific rigor that Darwin's theory has endured.  Mostly his addition personally attacks Darwin's character.  Typical of the circa 1800s ignorance he so graciously included and cited!  My only objection to the book is its deceitful nature.  Comfort could have easily handed out copies of his own book, as his introduction is just a series of quick summaries of his past work.  However, he hid them in a great work of scientific discovery.  Evolution Theory has come a long way since Darwin.  It would have been nice to see him argue against one of the newer comprehensive works out there.  A good look through his citations at the end of the introduction shows that very few works on evolution were cited; the ones that were cited were obviously limited in depth and breadth.  At least, very few in contrast to the many citations comparable to "Christian arguments against evolution" and "The Scientific Method for Dummies."

Religion is a memetic virus.  It's only purpose is to reproduce.  Look at these people's tenacity.  It an inherent property of these viral dogmatic ideas.  The problem with it is that it reduces people to replicators of an idea, rather than creators. 

Some of Darwin's opinions expressed in The Origin of Species should be taken as that - opinions.  Opinions stemming from 1800s level scientific ignorance.  And these opinions have no relationship with his scientific theory.

Whether accepted or not by the reader, Comfort's information should not be published within the covers of this book.  Too many readers are not educated enough to realize that reason, not only that but scientifically rigorous reason, is required when comparing the two ideas - and sadly most will not read past the first 60 pages (the intro).

I believe very strongly that Darwin's theory, as it is improved on in time with parallel ideas such as complexity, non-linear systems, chaos and self-organizing systems, will prove to be an epiphenomenon of an underlying principle law of nature.

"A deceitful witness speaketh lies" Proverbs 14:25