Quotes

https://barryhisblog.blogspot.com/p/quotes.html

I got fed up with creoids posting lies on the Facebook groups I frequent, the groups that deal with evolution and creationism/ID, so I posted the "memes" below, to get my own back on them.

The original meaning of "meme", BTW, a term coined by Richard Dawkins, was of an idea that replicated itself going from mind to mind, as an analogy to "gene". He pointed out that a meme that spread was not necessarily good or true, it was just good at getting replicated.  

Lies, you say? Yes. I'm talking about quote-mining (again) - the practise of selecting a quote to deliberately give the impression that someone thinks something which is the complete opposite of what that actually do think. The most infamous case of which is where Darwin is writing about the eye and it is claimed that he thought that the eye forming by natural selection was absurd. See https://barryhisblog.blogspot.com/p/quote-mining.html

Typically, the text of a meme is rendered in graphic form to make googling for it tedious. The meme, of course, never includes any details of the source. 

Here are my memes. I have added the text in machine-readable form together with links.

The major difference between what I have done and what the quote-miners do is that I have quoted exactly what these people meant, and meant to say.

"Let’s be clear where our argument is headed. We are not here challenging common descent, the claim that all organisms trace their lineage to a universal common ancestor. Nor are we challenging evolutionary gradualism, that organisms have evolved gradually over time. Nor are we even challenging that natural selection may be the principal mechanism by which organisms have evolved" - William Dembski. From https://evoinfo.org/papers/ConsInfo_NoN.pdf

Dembski thinks that an unidentifiable flying intelligent designer designed the world to enable evolution to work. OK for a medoicre sci-fi story, but of no interest to real science.

"I have been labeled as an Intelligent Design (sometimes called “ID”) proponent. I am not" - James Tour. From https://www.jmtour.com/personal-topics/evolution-creation/

Like all of us, Tour doesn't know how life began. He just makes a lot of noise noise about it to milk the gullible creoid-ists.

"I think common descent is the best explanation of this evidence" - Jonathan Mclatchie. From https://barryhisblog.blogspot.com/p/from-jonathan-mclatchie-search-for-adam.html

McLatchie wrote an article on his younger days, for "Evolution News", an article sceptical of what he saying now. Neither he nor the "Discovery" "Institute" have the integrity to take it down. https://barryhisblog.blogspot.com/p/do-shared-ervs-support-common-ancestry.html  

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