Wow. What a day. We were part of the team that put 2000 books into the hands of college students at CSUN. All over the country (and the world) over 170.000 books were passed out. The whole time Twitter has been abuzz with mixed reactions. Search Twitter for “Darwin” or “Origin of Species” and you’ll see what everybody is saying.

Well, looks like we have a topic for this Saturday’s show. If you got a book, or you passed out a book, or you just want to give us a piece of your mind, tune in this Saturday (9PM PST) and give us a call. We’ll try to get to as many people as we can as we spend the hour debriefing this mission.

Tony Miano, the key organizer of this event will be in studio and if you have something to say, make sure you keep it clean, and give us a call. ;) 888-995-KKLA

Also, I see so much misinformation spread on Twitter. It’s OK to disagree, but disagree with what ACTUALLY happened, not a straw-man. Here is a poignant segment of the official FAQ.

Are you defacing Darwin’s work?

Not at all. We have published his entire book. Nothing has been removed. The book that we will be giving to students is the complete edition. Charles Darwin said that both perspectives should be given, and we are giving both in a 50-page Introduction. Like Darwin, we want people to read the two points of view and make up their own minds.

Please Note: When laying out the book for the first print (30,000 copies), we found that it was over 400 pages and was too expensive to be a free book. We therefore randomly removed four chapters and Darwin's Introduction, saying within the book that they could be freely downloaded at www.originextra.com But for the second print (175,000 copies) we dropped the text-size, and that reduced the entire book to 304 pages, making it affordable as a giveaway.