re: #1035 Charles

These people are so dishonest that they make me feel icky.

The miner even chopped occurred and changed lower case w to W.

montersj have you actually read the original, ‘The Origin of Species, chap 6, “Difficulties of the Theory,” 158.’?

If you did read it then you are as dishonest as the original miner.

If you haven’t read it then you are a lazy git and only fractionally less dishonest.

Were you unaware that Creationist quote mines were dishonest? Did you care?

Or can’t you tell the difference between the meanings of the two sets of text?

Long before having arrived at this part of my work, a crowd of difficulties will have occurred to the reader. Some of them are so grave that to this day I can never reflect on them without being staggered; but, to the best of my judgment, the greater number are only apparent, and those that are real are not, I think, fatal to my theory.

These difficulties and objections may be classed under the following heads:-Firstly, wWhy, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms? Why is not all nature in confusion instead of the species being, as we see them, well defined?

There is a tacit, symbiotic, relationship between the knowingly dishonest and the willfully-ignorant dishonest.