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To: Ichneumon; Pete from Shawnee Mission; Just mythoughts; Dimensio; SalukiLawyer; Thatcherite; ...
Damn. I wonder what would happen if anti-evos ever figured out how to do text searches on on-line documents. For instance, one need only go to Project Gutenberg to find a copy of Darwin's works. Sorta like this:

The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection; or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

(Note, I skipped all the intro pieces dealing with copyright and all that)

Once in, it takes a whole lot of effort to hold down the CTRL key and hit "F" -- after which a search box will pop up.

Nosirree Bob. I'm telling you it'll be a dark day indeed when anti-evos actually understand how to utilize the internet for research.

157 posted on 11/10/2005 11:32:29 AM PST by Junior (From now on, I'll stick to science, and leave the hunting alien mutants to the experts!)
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To: Junior
Damn. I wonder what would happen if anti-evos ever figured out how to do text searches on on-line documents.

I thought that many already posessed this knowledge. How else do they dig up quotes that seem to be "damning" for the case of evolution but, when examined in context, pose no problems with the theory whatsoever? I assumed that they did a search on a text string, found something that looked promising and cut and pasted the sentence without reading further.

If they didn't do it that way, it would suggest that creationists actually do read the sources that they quote, and their out-of-context quoting is a practice of dishonesty rather than haste and laziness. And a creationist wouldn't be dishonest, right?
160 posted on 11/10/2005 11:36:37 AM PST by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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