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CHYUII said:
6 A series of quotes arguing evolution does not make an argument. Especially when half of them are taken terribly out of context.
Do you mean by “out of context” that, all of the people who are being quoted did not intend by their quotes to support Intelligent Design. Is that what you mean?
 In court, that is what is called a hostile witness. If the Scientist where being tortured by a small village of I.D.s the quotes would not have weight, but the men spoke these things with out duress.
In research, one man’s theory is another mans breakthrough. One man may reach a result and his peer may find that he reached that result falsely. Researchers are encouraged all of the time to add notes to their work that list details as to why things failed or why there positive outcome maybe flawed.
  String Theory is the result of an Equation created and passed up in the time of the author, it took some many people to come along and get the theory noticed by the scientific community. With that said Darwin’s Theory came from other people’s work too.

No, I think that he means "out of context" as in the person is not actually meaning to say what it seems like they are saying in the quote.  For instance: 

Charles Darwin:
  "To suppose that the eye [...] could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree."
versus
Charles Darwin:  "To suppose that the eye [...] could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.  When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei, as every philosopher knows, cannot be trusted in science. Reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a simple and imperfect eye to one complex and perfect can be shown to exist, each grade being useful to its possessor, as is certainly the case; if further, the eye ever varies and the variations be inherited, as is likewise certainly the case and if such variations should be useful to any animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory."

You can still have that quote, but you cannot count on the authority of the people you are quoting to support it.  You might as well be saying "coolgurl79, whom I met on AIM yesterday, said this (or made this claim)" and it would have the same meaning as an out of context quote. 

Keep in mind that I'm not actually bothering to find out which quotes were allegedly out of context or judging whether they actually were. 



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