Tim Hague
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Joined: Nov. 2005
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From that article about fisking:
| Quote | | Irish journalist Eoghan Harris had earlier used the term "fisking" with a different meaning - "To fisk is not to face the facts for as long as possible and, when found out, to divert the public from your mistake by spinning shiny stories in the air." (Sunday Times, June 13, 1999). No-one else appears to have used the term in this sense, and Harris later remarked that he had "lost a coinage". |
Although Harris lost out in calling his concept 'fisking' I do think the phenomenon: "...not to face the facts for as long as possible and, when found out, to divert the public from your mistake by spinning shiny stories in the air." is particularly relevent to the anti-evoluton debate as it appear to describe the likes of Behe and Dembski to a tee.
Shall we come up with another term for it?
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