re kind loving merciful and forgiving god m mwunix mitre org james meritt writes joslin pogo isp pitt edu david joslin writes m mwunix mitre org james meritt writes a out of context must have missed when you said this about these other promises of god that we keep getting subjected to could you please explain why i am wrong and they are ok or an acknowledgement of public hypocrisy both or neither so according to you jim the only way to criticize one person for taking a quote out of context without being a hypocrite is to post a response to every person on t r m who takes a quote out of context did i either ask or assert that or is this your misaimed telepathy at work again stephen said you took a quote out of context you noted that stephen had not replied to some other t r m article call it a that took a quote out of context but the lack of evidence for x does not constitute evidence for the lack of x a common creationist error so the fact that stephen did not reply to a does not justify the conclusion that stephen condoned taking quotes out of context in a you asked stephen to explain why you were wrong and they were ok or to acknowledge that he was being a hypocrite both of the choices you give stephen assume that he condoned taking quotes out of context in a i assumed you were being logical and that the sentence that begins could you please explain was not a nonsequitur but was intended to follow from the sentence that preceded it therefore i concluded that you believed that implied that stephen condoned taking quotes out of context in a but we ve already seen that does not imply this therefore you were incorrect to believe that implied that stephen thought it was okay to take quotes out of context in a and were making an error of a kind that is frequently made by creationists is that better jim it s called an argument if you disagree with it explain why the argument is not sound i admit that my assumption in may have been a bit hasty if you agree with it just say yup dj yup jim s e mailed response when i pointed out in a posted article that one of his arguments was a straw man argument reminiscent of a frequent creationist ploy
