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That's what hundreds of college students learned after receiving free copies of Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” as they walked across campus.

When they opened the book, they discovered it contained a 50-page foreword by a Christian minister questioning, you guessed it, the validity of Darwin’s theories.

About 17,000 such books are reported to have been given away by 1,200 volunteers at 100 U.S. universities, including Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, according to the Christian Science Monitor.

The book is advertised as a new edition of the 150th anniversary of the 1859 publication of Darwin’s book.

It was created by Ray Comfort, a Christian evangelical minister who stresses Americans need to be made to understand that evolution is only a theory.

College students who received the books had mixed reactions, according to the Christian Science Monitor.

Aside from whether this tactic is going to affect anyone's views on evolution or religion (that's a whole other topic altogether), is this just a harmless promotion or something more? It's not that college students were sold a bill of goods. The book is free.