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:::Actually, what triggered my comment was that I was ''planning'' to find or concoct an example that did not involve either evolution or creationism, but if I'm correct that the phrase is used only in the evolution/creationism dispute—and, as [[User:Rich P|Dr. Richard Paley]] notes, only in one direction—such an example would be misleading, because it wouldn't be illustrating the actual way the term is used. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 08:35, 8 March 2007 (EST)
:::Actually, what triggered my comment was that I was ''planning'' to find or concoct an example that did not involve either evolution or creationism, but if I'm correct that the phrase is used only in the evolution/creationism dispute—and, as [[User:Rich P|Dr. Richard Paley]] notes, only in one direction—such an example would be misleading, because it wouldn't be illustrating the actual way the term is used. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 08:35, 8 March 2007 (EST)
:::(MAD Magazine once had a very funny article about the way in which movie advertising takes reviewers' quotes out of context.) [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 08:37, 8 March 2007 (EST)