The Dishonest Creationist Tactic of 'Quote Mining'

[abu afak]

Used hourly here mainly by Political Sheik.
Indeed it is her Main and Bogus line of attack.

Quote mining

Quote mining (also contextomy) is the fallacious tactic of taking quotes out of context in order to make them seemingly agree with the quote miner's viewpoint, to make the comments of an opponent seem more extreme, or to make it seem that the opponent holds positions they don't in order to make...

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Quote mining (also contextomy) is the Fallacious tactic of taking quotes out of context in order to make them seemingly agree with the quote miner's viewpoint or to make the comments of an opponent seem more extreme or to make it seem that the opponent holds positions they don't in order to make their positions easier to refute or demonize.[note 1] It's a way of Lying. This tactic is widely used among Young Earth Creationists (YEC) in an attempt to discredit evolution.

Quote mining is an informal fallacy and a fallacy of ambiguity, in that it removes context that is necessary to understand the mined quote.
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Examples

Darwin
A famous example, possibly one of the most famous examples of quote mining, is the following misquotation of Charles Darwin, where the bold section is often presented without including the rest of the quote.

“”To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. Yet reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a perfect and complex eye to one very imperfect and simple, each grade being useful to its possessor, can be shown to exist; if further, the eye does vary ever so slightly, and the variations be inherited, which is certainly the case; and if any variation or modification in the organ be ever useful to an animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, can hardly be considered real. How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself first originated; but I may remark that several facts make me suspect that any sensitive nerve may be rendered sensitive to light, and likewise to those coarser vibrations of the air which produce sound.

—Charles Darwin[5]

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[Fort Fun Indiana]

Educated? You mean indoctrinated and only capable of parroting the Talking Points.

Yes, that's what aggressively ignorant people like you HAVE to say about knowledge and education. Your only alternative is to admit you are an uneducated slob that has no idea what he is talking about.

 

[Orangecat]

Used hourly here mainly by Political Sheik.
Indeed it is her Main and Bogus line of attack.

Quote mining

Quote mining (also contextomy) is the fallacious tactic of taking quotes out of context in order to make them seemingly agree with the quote miner's viewpoint, to make the comments of an opponent seem more extreme, or to make it seem that the opponent holds positions they don't in order to make...

rationalwiki.org

Quote mining (also contextomy) is the Fallacious tactic of taking quotes out of context in order to make them seemingly agree with the quote miner's viewpoint or to make the comments of an opponent seem more extreme or to make it seem that the opponent holds positions they don't in order to make their positions easier to refute or demonize.[note 1] It's a way of Lying. This tactic is widely used among Young Earth Creationists (YEC) in an attempt to discredit evolution.

Quote mining is an informal fallacy and a fallacy of ambiguity, in that it removes context that is necessary to understand the mined quote.
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Examples

Darwin
A famous example, possibly one of the most famous examples of quote mining, is the following misquotation of Charles Darwin, where the bold section is often presented without including the rest of the quote.

“”To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. Yet reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a perfect and complex eye to one very imperfect and simple, each grade being useful to its possessor, can be shown to exist; if further, the eye does vary ever so slightly, and the variations be inherited, which is certainly the case; and if any variation or modification in the organ be ever useful to an animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, can hardly be considered real. How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself first originated; but I may remark that several facts make me suspect that any sensitive nerve may be rendered sensitive to light, and likewise to those coarser vibrations of the air which produce sound.

—Charles Darwin[5]

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Quote mining is exactly what the leftist MSM has been doing to Trump for years.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Quote mining is exactly what the leftist MSM has been doing to Trump for years.

Wrong section, crybaby. Bye.

 

[Orangecat]

Wrong section, crybaby. Bye.

Seeya later, Karen.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Yes, that's what aggressively ignorant people like you HAVE to say about knowledge and education. Your only alternative is to admit you are an uneducated slob that has no idea what he is talking about.

Who or what does the selecting in “natural selection”?

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Who or what does the selecting in “natural selection

Don't feed the sea lions

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Don't feed the sea lions

Not surprising.

You never thought to ask.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Not surprising.

You never thought to ask.

Actually, I have directly answered that question to you many times. So you apparently forgot the numerous times you trolled with that question.

You do a lot of drugs, don't you,?

 

[ding]

Actually, I have directly answered that question to you many times. So you apparently forgot the numerous times you trolled with that question.

You do a lot of drugs, don't you,?

Would the answer be logic?

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Would the answer be logic?

No, the answer would be a statement. Logic operates on statements.

 

[ding]

No, the answer would be a statement. Logic operates on statements.

Logic is a system of principles that uses reason to determine if a conclusion is true or untrue.

Natural selection is logical.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Logic is a system of principles that uses reason to determine if a conclusion is true or untrue.

Natural selection is logical.

Neat.