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Permalink Reply by Galen on October 23, 2009 at 10:06pm

That'd be awesome if only I could afford to take off work. I think maybe they chose a Thursday intentionally. All of us who actually have lives and jobs would find it harder to go confront them. Hard to believe that this bullshit IS their job!

Permalink Reply by Ashli Axtell on October 23, 2009 at 10:14pm

And there are some benefits to a well-paid retail job, one of which is days off during the week.

Permalink Reply by Galen on October 26, 2009 at 3:02am

*sigh* This is what I get for working for the gub'ment as a low paid public servant. Ah well. I hope you get volunteers and take plenty of video for youtube!

Permalink Reply by Ashli Axtell on October 26, 2009 at 1:48pm

Aww. My roommate works for the DoD, but as a very well-paid engineer. I'm so envious sometimes. All that money and all those government holidays!

Permalink Reply by Dave G on November 4, 2009 at 9:57am

They've hidden the itinerary, specifically in order to prevent those 'horrible atheist people' from getting ahold of their books. Odd, you'd think they didn't want to try to convince us or something.

I wouldn't mind picking up a few copies down at Tech myself, even if Emory would be closer. It's been a while since I was last at my alma mater.

Permalink Reply by Dave G on November 4, 2009 at 12:33pm

And if you read Ray's version, you still won't have read Origins. Not all of it, anyway.

The original printing had 4 chapters left out. Oddly enough, these were the chapters describing the best evidence for evolution.

After he got called on that by Eugenie Scott (Yay Genie!), Ray announced that the new, second printing would contain those 4 chapters. But then Eugenie pointed out that there was still parts of the book missing. Several images, graphs, etc. And I think that Darwin's introduction is still missing, too.

Permalink Reply by Dave G on December 11, 2009 at 11:59am

Ray may be in trouble over the plagiarism after all. It seems that the original author is considering legal action.

Permalink Reply by Dave G on November 4, 2009 at 1:22pm

Oh, and if you want a free copy of Origin...

http://darwin-online.org.uk/contents.html#origin

Permalink Reply by Dave G on November 4, 2009 at 5:44pm

I don't blame you, I bought one myself.

Permalink Reply by Aric on November 5, 2009 at 2:06am

"Were people really that stupid?" And I can say, "Yes."

That is possibly the greatest quote ever. Also, I unfortunately will not be able to make it to either Emory or GT on the 19th.