In "What is Creation Science?", by Henry Morris and Gary Parker, we can read the following:
quote:
Question: "Isn't it unethical for creationists, in order to support their arguments, to quote evolutionists out of context?"
Answer: [...]With only rare exceptions, however, creationists always are meticulously careful to quote accurately and in context. Evolutionists have apparently searched creationist writings looking for such exceptions and, out of hundreds or thousands of quotes which have been used, have been able to find only two or three which they have been able to interpret as misleading. Even these, if carefully studied, in full light of their own contexts, will be found to be quite fair and accurate in their representation of the situation under discussion. On the other hand, evolutionists frequently quote creationist writings badly out of context. [...]In any case, evolutionists much more frequently and more flagrantly quote creationists out of context than creationists do evolutionists.
In one of my [...]'s, Morris/Parker handwave a couple of examples of the "types" of misquotes that supposedly appear "frequently" in anti-creationist writings -
but give no specific citations.
I know of too many creationist misquotes already - ironically, more than a few from Morris and Parker themselves, even more ironically, in the same book as the above quote - but don't recall ever having a specific discussion of any single "flagrant" misquote by an anti-creationist writer.
So...anyone know of any? Have any creationists made a point of documenting these "frequent" and "flagrant" misquotes and out-of-context quotes?
I don't much care about random internet posters who misquote. Off-the-cuff misquotes by the general public aren't interesting from either side. I mean the evolutionary analogs of Morris and Parker and Gish, et al. You know: Dawkins? Gould? Eldridge? Futuyama? Ruse? People who make it a point to write books about evolution and/or against creationism; people who are recognized leaders or experts among mainstream science folks. Heck, I'll even be interested in Talk Origins articles (note, NOT Talk Origins
posts).
C'mon creationists, "Bring 'em on". I know there must be something out there, and if they are "frequent" and "flagrant" as Morris and Parker claim, they should be pretty easy to find.
[This message has been edited by Zhimbo, 09-22-2003]