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*** The immediately following context, "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." |
*** The immediately following context, "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." |
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** In fact, quote mining scientists is such a popular tactic of creationists that many prominent biologists deliberately word their lectures and publications in ways to make quote mining more difficult. Also, given that the people who initially carry out the quote mining know what they're saying is a deliberate misrepresentation it's given rise to the Liars for Jesus meme. |
** In fact, quote mining scientists is such a popular tactic of creationists that many prominent biologists deliberately word their lectures and publications in ways to make quote mining more difficult. Also, given that the people who initially carry out the quote mining know what they're saying is a deliberate misrepresentation it's given rise to the Liars for Jesus meme. |
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* Anti-religious critics, skeptics [[The Fundamentalist|atheist fundamentalists]] occasionally quote-mine Scriptures of the religions they're criticizing (the most popular targets are the Bible and the Qu'ran). |
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* Opponents of abortion and birth control sometimes combine a Quote Mine with a [[Hitler Ate Sugar]], attempting to "prove" that Planned Parenthood is racist because Margaret Sanger once said "We do not want word to get out that we are trying to exterminate the Negro population." The reason she didn't want that word to get out is that, well, that ''wasn't'' what she was trying to do in the first place. The quote was from a conversation with a popular minister in a black community and was about finding ways to extend her services to black women who needed them ''without'' being suspected of specifically targeting a group of people for elimination. The quote is used to accuse her of exactly what she was trying to ''avoid'' being accused of. |
* Opponents of abortion and birth control sometimes combine a Quote Mine with a [[Hitler Ate Sugar]], attempting to "prove" that Planned Parenthood is racist because Margaret Sanger once said "We do not want word to get out that we are trying to exterminate the Negro population." The reason she didn't want that word to get out is that, well, that ''wasn't'' what she was trying to do in the first place. The quote was from a conversation with a popular minister in a black community and was about finding ways to extend her services to black women who needed them ''without'' being suspected of specifically targeting a group of people for elimination. The quote is used to accuse her of exactly what she was trying to ''avoid'' being accused of. |
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** It's worth noting that no denomination of Christianity believed that any form of artificial birth control was permissible until 1930, and they likened the use of contraceptives by married couples to fornication or sodomy. |
** It's worth noting that no denomination of Christianity as a whole believed that any form of artificial birth control was permissible until 1930, and they likened the use of contraceptives by married couples to fornication or sodomy. |
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*** Except that that assertion is complete pants. [[Asbestos-Free Cereal|No Christian denomination had anything to say on the subject before 1930.]] |
*** Except that that assertion is complete pants. [[Asbestos-Free Cereal|No Christian denomination had anything to say on the subject before 1930.]] |
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