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Quote of the day: Stan Guffey

"I am party to a scam," Guffey says. "The introduction begins with a nice, sweet little biography, then degenerates into intellectually lame, lazy distortions, selective reading of the literature, picking and choosing of facts, and misreadings of the historical record." He says Comfort "gently moves folks into the notion that they don’t want to read what comes after the introduction. He just wants his 50 pages read, 47 of which are anti-intellectual, dishonest drivel, the first three of which are pretty good because I wrote them."

-- Stan Guffey, quoted in "UT Professor Considers Legal Action Over Use Of Charles Darwin Bio" in the Knoxville Metro Pulse. Creationist Ray Comfort plagiarized a short biography of Darwin written by Guffy. (Referenced by Steve Mirsky in Scientific American.

Another good quotation from the same article:

"I would like to engage him in intellectual combat, but it wouldn’t be fair," Guffey says. "If he were to play by the rules of reason and logic, I would whoop his ass, but he’s not constrained by those rules, so it wouldn’t be fair to me."

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