Hello everyone - the name's Jim, although I respond to "Zhimbo" just
fine.

The recent discussion on misquoting touches upon a particular
question I've asked in the past, with little respone, in other
groups.

In "What is Creation Science?", by Henry Morris and Gary Parker, we
can read the following:

quote:
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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.



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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.

Ironically, there are more than "two or three" serious misquotes in
the same book as the above quote - but I don't recall ever having a
specific discussion of any single "flagrant" misquote by an anti-
creationist writer.

So...does anyone know of any? Have any creationists made a point of
documenting these "frequent" and "flagrant" misquotes and out-of-
context quotes?

Are there really so many "flagrant" misquotes from 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?