[Dimensio]

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?

[Junior]

Nearly all those out-of-context quotes originated on a small handful of websites; they've been copied by other creationists (one can literally trace the copies by the presence of typographical errors). None of the fools who post them on these threads has ever actually read the original works; he or she is simply copying and pasting from one of the sites hosting them.