Instead of coming back for a genuine discussion in the interests of discovering truth, you have sidestepped these issues and are moving into a totally unrelated area. You are even free to write to the authors yourself, since most would be still alive. Some of these turned out to have been simply written down on a card after listening to a creationist speaker at a lecture. . . Yet any scientist who published a work of such appalling scholarship would probably lose his or her job and certainly would never be taken seriously by the scientific community again. Many of the quotations are clearly out of context.
Secondary quotes are a convenient way to misrepresent.
Interestingly, Dr. Colin Patterson is quoted five times. Every single one is from a source uncheckable in a library. Hence the onus was clearly on the CSF to prove its own ' bona fide ' intentions and allow its references to be checked. I wrote back to Carl Wieland and explained that the quote I was interested in was from a personal letter, and as such could hardly be referenced in a library. He was unsympathetic and so as a last resort I took Wieland's own advice and set about contacting Dr. Patterson personally.