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To: Heartlander; doc30
"Creationsist quote mining is so disengenuous."

Yet quote mining from the ACLU is totally acceptable according to ‘your’ philosophy and you accept this as ‘fact‘ due to a ‘quote mining’ ruling?

I'm sorry, you don't seem to understand what "quote mining" is.

Quote mining is taking bits and pieces of a quote out of context to change the meaning. Obviously the judge did not do that with the opinion.

Quote mining is quite commonly done with Darwin's own writings, because he set out possible objections to his work and then demolished them. By only printing the objections, one can advance the fraudulent impression that Darwin felt his Theory to be weak, flawed or unsupported.

Let’s try this again - How do you separate Social-Darwinism from evolution and philosophy?

Social Darwinism has absolutely nothing to do with the ToE.

145 posted on 12/13/2006 7:06:41 AM PST by highball ("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
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To: highball

Creationists are proficient quote miners. It's a skill they developed in their Bible studies - selective verse readings, etc.


149 posted on 12/13/2006 7:32:48 AM PST by doc30 (Democrats are to morals what an Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
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