[LibertarianSchmoe]

You're avoiding the issue. Namely, that quote-mining is a deceitful, yet oft-used tactic of the anti-science crowd. It's bad enough when you do it to the words of scientists, but you've shown that even the words of the Founders are not off-limits to this despicable practice.

I haven't messed with the sense of what they wrote at all. You have.

That's a lie. I haven't "messed with" any of their words. I'm trying to defend them from your twisting influence. It's okay. It's the least I can do for them.

[EternalVigilance]

If the vast majority of the founders were here, and you told them that man and ape share a common ancestor, they would laugh in your face.

Then, when they figured out that you were serious, and that your views had gained the supremacy in American public life, they would be very concerned.

[EternalVigilance]

Why do you hate it so much when I simply print the simple words that lay the premise for our nation's founding?

You accuse my of "quote-mining." Zippety-do. I accuse you of undermining the basis of our free republic.