jaf writes:
I typed it word for word one finger at a time On my ipad I will have you know. I did clean the screen afterwards.
Oh, well, there's no need for that. Just highlight your quote-mine, carefully avoiding any context that conflicts with your intended distortion, then copy, then click to your target and paste.
If your method requires no thought, why waste any energy, either?
I feel an itch of curiosity when I see creationists use the kind of methods you employ--e.g., defaming an intellectual opponent with distorted quote mines irrelevant to the intellectual conflict itself. Why do you expect that to work?
What would it working even mean? Say you persuade me that Darwin was a racist (he wasn't, not in the sense we use the word). Do you suppose I'll repudiate ideas my power of reason evaluates and accepts due to evidence?
Most of all, though, I wonder at a state of belief that combines the notion that one's kind was created supernaturally by a God, in His image, with the idea that what is required of them is to lie, defame and distort in His service.
You probably can't help me with that.
"If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you can collect a lot of heads."