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Why do creationist posters quote so?

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Message 14 of 45 (75056)
12-24-2003 8:58 PM 		Reply to: Message 12 by DNAunion
12-24-2003 7:17 PM

Authorities - good and bad
Thank you DNA, I agree with you. However, even knowledgable appropriate authority is trumped by facts and sound thinking. But when you have not other basis then a consensus of qualified experts does make sense.
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12-27-2003 1:46 PM 		Reply to: Message 21 by DNAunion
12-27-2003 12:58 PM

Agreement
I agree with what you are saying DNA. The tricky part is when someone tries to mess with a quote from someone else to make it appear to say something that the "quotee" disagrees with (that is quote mining).
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You do have to have your last point though:
Second, it shows the exact wording that the person's argument is based on, allowing the other side to scrutinize the support and point out potential problems that arose when going from scientist->argument.
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The closer one gets to the original research the better. But only up to a point. Obviously if we always went that far a lot of us would be unable to understand the supplied material anyway.
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12-30-2003 7:58 PM 		Reply to: Message 37 by Percy
12-30-2003 7:05 PM

But an evolutionist might not know how life came into existance, Percy. He might be completely happy with the ToE but not be comfortable with what ideas we do have about abiogenesis. Right?
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Common sense isn't
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