Quote mining means fudging facts or leaving out crucial details that misrepresent the meaning of the quote.
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[__ Science __ ] What Are the Dangers of Quote Mining?
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To put it bluntly, quote mining is a version of lying. It occurs far too often in theology, politics, and even the debate about evolution.
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Jonathan Sarfati, another frequent contributor to your creationist perspective website, is no better. In his article “Exploding Stars Point to a Young Universe: Where Are All The Supernova Remnants?” first published in Creation Ex Nihilo 19:46-48 and later online at http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v19/i3/stars.asp, Sarfati tries to claim that the absence of Type III supernovas suggests that the universe is young, perhaps a few thousand years old, not billions of years as evolutionary scientists claim. He offers the following quote from Clark and Caswell in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1976, 174:267:
"As the evolutionist astronomers Clark and Caswell say, ‘Why have the large number of expected remnants not been detected?’ and these authors refer to ‘The mystery of the missing remnants’."
Sarfati conveniently forgot to finish the last sentence, which actually appears on page 301. In its entirety, it reads
"…and the mystery of the missing remnants is also solved."
aigbusted.blogspot.com
This deception has apparently been removed from the Answers in Genesis website.
To put it bluntly, quote mining is a version of lying. It occurs far too often in theology, politics, and even the debate about evolution.
Yep:
Jonathan Sarfati, another frequent contributor to your creationist perspective website, is no better. In his article “Exploding Stars Point to a Young Universe: Where Are All The Supernova Remnants?” first published in Creation Ex Nihilo 19:46-48 and later online at http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v19/i3/stars.asp, Sarfati tries to claim that the absence of Type III supernovas suggests that the universe is young, perhaps a few thousand years old, not billions of years as evolutionary scientists claim. He offers the following quote from Clark and Caswell in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1976, 174:267:
"As the evolutionist astronomers Clark and Caswell say, ‘Why have the large number of expected remnants not been detected?’ and these authors refer to ‘The mystery of the missing remnants’."
Sarfati conveniently forgot to finish the last sentence, which actually appears on page 301. In its entirety, it reads
"…and the mystery of the missing remnants is also solved."
The Deception of True.Origin
The following is an email correspondence between a fellow blog reader and the owner of the creationist site True Origin, Tim Wallace. If you...
aigbusted.blogspot.com
This deception has apparently been removed from the Answers in Genesis website.