Great work. I couldn't manage to find the source for that quote. Just goes to show that they really did learn the true lesson behind the exposure of the misquotes in the creation book: Don't cite your sources.
Awake January 2015: How did life begin? - More misquotes
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Brainfloss
marked
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EndofMysteries
marked to check for response
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AnnOMaly
Interested in response.
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rocketman
I'm marking this too. I'd love to see Dr. Singh's response.
As of now, it looks like more quote cherry-picking by the Society.
When I first started reading it, I immediately knew that the Society's writer(s) would pounce on the "educated sections of the population" and asked myself, 'which section, those with a high school education?' Because those are basically the only people, outside fundamentalists and others with a strong belief in God that view evolutionary theory as a threat, that question evolution as an established fact, and the full quote Dr. Singh basically states the same.
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Pistoff
The quote is found at the bottom of page 870; it was abridged by the WT writers.
The full sentence reads:
"The opposition to evolution goes beyond religious fundamentalism and includes a great many people from educated
sections of the population, including biologists, nonbiologists, and the lay public."The full quote weakens the WT's point, that EDUCATED sections also oppose evolution, when it includes nonbiologists and the lay public.
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wifibandit
We have started compilation of the out-of-context quotes in this AWAKE! here : http://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/2k50ih/how_did_life_begin/
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AnnOMaly
Rama Singh, professor of biology at Canada’s McMaster University, says: “The opposition to evolution goes beyond religious fundamentalism and includes a great many people from educated sections of the population.”[/quote]
end-of-quote in Awake
Actual Rama quote however continues:
[quote]...who may not be logically opposed to evolution nevertheless do not accept it. This is because the process of and the evidence for evolution are invisible to a nonspecialist, or the theory may look too simple to explain complex traits to some, or because people compare evolution against God and find evolutionary explanations threatening to their beliefs. Considering how evolution affects our lives, including health and the environment to give just two examples, a basic course in evolution should become a required component of all our college and university educational systems.[/quote]
sir82 gave a link to the article. In this article the two quotes do not join up (Pistoff gives the full sentence). DS, were you using a different source to sir82's?
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cofty
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sir82
sir82 gave a link to the article. In this article the two quotes do not join up (Pistoff gives the full sentence). DS, were you using a different source to sir82's?
The Awake quote comes from the bottom of page 870.
The 2nd quote in the OP comes from the article's abstract on page 868.
I wonder just how evil the Awake editor is? Did he (or a minion) actually read the article from its original source, or did they pull the misleading partial quotation from some fundy creationis website?