marc9000 writes:
The term "quote mine" not being formally defined is significant however.
It's not a problem because if you don't know what it means you can ask, and people will explain what it means. "Quote mining" is a lot easier to write than "pulling a quote out of context to twist its meaning into something it was not meant to say". It is just short hand.
Of course, we are all laughing at creationists because they say stupid things like "quote mining isn't in the dictionary, so creationists can't be doing it". It is a level of denial that even an ostrich with its head in the sand can see.
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