Richard Dawkins on The Art of Quote Mining - Part 1

Richard Dawkins provides a couple of examples of popular quote mines in the Evolution/Creation/ID debate. One is a popular one from Charles Darwin on the eye. The other is from professor Dawkins himself on the Cambrian Explosion.

Quote mining is a deeply dishonest practice leading, as it does, to the repetition of the lie by the unwitting lay-person.

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[AdventNoOmega1]

I am the only one who find Richard Dawkins' voice so damn dull? He sounds like a robot. Put him and Spock together and you'll fall asleep in no time. ^_^

[dj2baduk]

@AdventNoOmega1 no you're not alone. He does sound a bit like an elderly English lady

[bobbaz2401]

Who the fuck uses yahoo?

[ErSchTsp]

I love how Dawkins sincerely calls himself 'young and foolish in those days' when he wrote The Blind Watchmaker, when it's actually a brilliant book.

[AdventNoOmega1]

@hznfrst No, I just find his voice really really boring that's all.

[hznfrst]

@AdventNoOmega1 That's the first time I ever heard anyone complain about Dawkins' voice - I and everyone I know find him soothing, eloquent and sincere. Are you complaining because he rarely resorts to ranting?

[OrthodoxDarwinist]

I love Dawkins, he has a great sense of humour.

I have many times been told on my profile: well you say you're a darwinist, but I bet you haven't heard of this quote: (insert Darwin quote mine)

After I have gotten over my fury at their stupidity, I have quite a fun time informing them of the stupidity in copying and pasting from creatard websites...

[1amsm1th]

Gotta love him rocking the Hawaiian shirt.

[Entropy56]

I searched on, Dawkins is a chronic masturbator, and got some hits. It was like magic...

[anonymous3526q3q2623]

@ErSchTsp Yeah, it is, but he meant he didn't know about the potential for quote mining, he was "careless" in that sense.