Your average creationist hasn't got the brains God gave small rodents. He or she cannot understand enough of what an author is saying to paraphrase that author, so instead he or she steals the words of those smarter than him or her and hopes no one will find out. But, this is the Age of Google, and it is relatively simple to find the source of the passage.
Plagiarism should be a bannable offense. It subjects Free Republic to possible legal action. And the bad part is, if the idiot in question had just attributed the passage, none of this would be a big deal; he knows enough HTML to format a post, he should know enough to include a link to the original.
I agree that plagiarism should be bannable, particularly when the offender refuses to request removal of the post, but I think that by standing unopposed, it shines a light into the rathole of the anti-evolutionists. Not one of them has the integrity to call the offender out.
Some witness to religion, huh?
Sticks and stones, gentlemen; sticks and stones. Sounds like none of you have grown up quite yet. Or perhaps your advanced degrees have caused you to de-evolutionize.
Or the moral character of the medium sized ones.