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[[Roy Speckhardt]], executive director of the [[American Humanist Association]] wrote a [[letter to the editor]] of the ''[[New York Times]]'', complaining about the deception. Speckhardt wrote, "If one needs to believe in a god to be moral, why are we seeing yet another case of dishonesty by the devout? Why were leading scientists deceived as to the intentions of a religious group of filmmakers?"<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE2DC123EF937A35753C1A9619C8B63 ''Humanists vs. Evangelicals''], [[Roy Speckhardt]], [[New York Times]], [[September 27]], [[2007]], Published: [[October 4]], [[2007]].</ref>

==SelectiveMisquotation quoting offrom Charles Darwin==

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In support of his claim that the theory of evolution inspired [[Nazism]], Ben Stein attributes the following statement to [[Charles Darwin]]'s book ''[[The Descent of Man]]'':<ref name=6things>[http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=six-things-ben-stein-doesnt-want-you-to-know Six Things in Expelled That Ben Stein Doesn't Want You to Know...], John Rennie and Steve Mirsky, [[Scientific American]], April 16, 2008</ref>

{{cquote|With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination. We build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed and the sick. Thus the weak members of civilized societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. Hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.}}