tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post8950895665540211292..comments2024-02-26T21:27:17.091+13:00Comments on The Fundy Post: The strangeness of ComfortPaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08024440694895271805noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post-14045328508112973432010-03-14T14:37:30.320+13:002010-03-14T14:37:30.320+13:00Don't encourage the little prat. He was an old...Don't encourage the little prat. He was an old sparring partner in my Christchurch days, until he recognised that rather than impersonating a fake Yank surfie, he could actually be one, so he loaded up and moved to Beverly. Hills, that is. With ghastly parvenu Pasadena beauty queens. And he's a rabid phobe and anti-abortionist to boot...<br /><br />Craig Y<br /> WellywoodAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post-50315018394537133952010-03-10T15:04:40.263+13:002010-03-10T15:04:40.263+13:00I'm taking a banana tonight to Dawkins talk - ...I'm taking a banana tonight to Dawkins talk - just to give to Comfort if he is handing out free books.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post-36620763739045874042010-03-10T10:21:44.040+13:002010-03-10T10:21:44.040+13:00It was an extraordinary book, the work of Ray Comf...It was an extraordinary book, the work of Ray Comfort's evil twin - Alex. They published a revised edition in the 90s, in which the participants had more tidy hair.<br /><br />One could make a thesis from Comfort's excisions from Darwin, asking which parts do not meet Comfort's academic standards and what these standards might be.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07698462817285436315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post-50019252698380583532010-03-10T02:37:40.980+13:002010-03-10T02:37:40.980+13:00It's not just his introduction. The version of...It's not just his introduction. The version of The Origin he is distributing is edited with various bits especially anathema or just plain inconvenient to Comfort removed completely and without notice or explanation.<br /><br />So better not let him at any other cherished tomes, goodness knows what he would do to The Joy of Sex and what would be left at the end. That book is apparently solely responsible for encouraging bearded men.<br /><br />I couldn't say myself, having stopped at a moustache and a soul patch (or so I am informed that the patch of hair under the centre of my bottom lip is called).<br /><br />If in your capacity of an erstwhile student you should attend one of his talks perhaps you could raise the issue of the excisions?Peter in Dundeenoreply@blogger.com