Why do some christians quote their "evidence against evolution" out of context?

Question

I posted a question earlier regarding evolution. One of the answers I got, that read like a book, featured a few dozen little grabs that have obviously been carefully collected to use to try and discredit the truth of evolution.

One of these included a quote from New Scientist, a magazine that I know well and enjoy reading on a regular basis.

New scientist regularly has featured articles on the fight by the scientific community to keep creationism and "intelligent design" out of high schools.

They also cover claims made against evolution.

It is very clear to anyone who reads New Scientist that it is a journal that sees evolution as proven beyond doubt and creationism as a dangerous scourge that must be kept out of the classroom.

They do include quotes from the supporters of creationism and intelligent design. They also systematicly debunk these claims.

Isn't it wrong & decietful to use these quotes as if they represent the view of New Scientist magazine?

Answer 1

I have found that those mose vehement voices suppoting Creationism have no idea the dynamics and complexity of evolution. I have asked Creationists to tell me what Evolution is, and always they say "Darwin" and say "survival of the fittest."

As a student with a degree in anthropology (and in school completing her degree in biology), I laugh at them and they have absolutely no clue, and I tell them so, and they get upset.

I find that it is the uneducated that are most stout in following their beliefs. They don't know, and don't care to know.

PS James B, what about your little dogs? Kittens? Cows? That is human-influenced genetic selection that has taken place over thousands of years. Bird flu? The Pandemic of 1918? Bubonic Plague? Or most common and horrific--the streptococcus superbug found inhospitals and other sterile envifonments, which now is immune even to bleach.

Evolution isn't just about apes and bones, buddy-boy. How about you actually educate yourself--or are you content in ignorance??

Answer 2

Man from dust, woman from bones of man. Doesn't that sound like an evolutionary process?

Daniel 12:4 "Knowledge will be increased"
How did Daniel know the human mind would become smarter within time? Once again, that is another evolutionaty process.

Answer 3

in the beginning there is death. all joshua kane's meet at birth. Joshua kane 1, never forgets the encounter. With very few exceptions, most other humans always forget. This situation is never conducted with the brain or the heart (as one might expect) but with the genitals. The tinglings we feel between our legs are not always caused by desire or fear. Mostly, it documents our negotiations with the Clattering Skeleton.

Answer 4

Hey, Songbird, if someone with as much education as you have can't give a better response than that, you'd better get your money back. Though I'm a Philosophy major and try to be open-minded to others views, I can't stand incoherent and rambling psychobabble either written, or spoken.

Answer 5

Probably for the same reason evolutionists quote evidence out of context, or isolated from contrary evidence.

Answer 6

do you really think by discrediting christian belief that they will go wow - what was i thinking -they have a closed mind
preach to me baby -
Why change perfection - paganism - myths & fables - the christians will never get it

Answer 7

Creationists lie all the time. They seem to think that by lying for their god, they will go to heaven.

Answer 8

I don't know, but I have yet to see proof of evolution. Where is the proof please show me.

Answer 9

They must be stupid, HUH?