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To: Ol' Sparky
You said:

*Harold Glum, Time's Arrow and Evolution (1962), p. 119.
That's a typo in your uncredited source. It's Blum.

A Yahoo! on "Time's Arrow and Evolution".

Your source uses the correct spelling in most of its other quotes of Blum, various editions of the same book. And why various editions? Observe the wandering years:

*H.F. Blum, Time's Arrow and Evolution, (1982), p. v., 16.

*Harold F. Blum, Time's Arrow and Evolution, (1982), p. 14.

*Harold F. Blum, Time's Arrow and Evolution, (1962), p. 15.

*Harold F. Blum, Time's Arrow and Evolution (1951), p. 87.

Not to mention your "Harold Glum," same book, back to 1962.

What's going on here?

What makes this problem worse in creationist literature is that many creationist writers do not actually read what they are quoting in the original but copy it from another writer, usually (but not necessarily) another creationist who himself might have copied it from yet another creationist. This is often revealed by multiple creationists having the same error in the quote or citation. Thus if a single creationist is dishonest, sloppy, or incompetent in his quotation the error becomes widespread.

From ThinkPlease's Quote-Mining Reference.

Why all those edition numbers? The author of the web page probably hasn't read even one edition of Blum's book. He just picked up a bunch of quotes already extracted by other ingenious idiots and slammed them together. He probably hasn't read Asimov or any of his mainstream victims sources either. And you, Sparky, are just parroting this clown, claiming his mangled "quote plagiarism" as your own.

597 posted on 02/05/2002 6:38:19 AM PST by VadeRetro
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To: VadeRetro
Placemarker.
598 posted on 02/05/2002 8:13:11 AM PST by PatrickHenry
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