{"id":1181,"date":"2006-04-13T21:11:01","date_gmt":"2006-04-13T21:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2006-04-13T21:11:01","modified_gmt":"2006-04-13T21:11:01","slug":"head_in_the_san","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1181","title":{"rendered":"Head In The Sand"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are times when I feel sorry for creationists and their incrementally better-dressed cousins, intelligent design advocates.  It must take a tremendous act of willful ignorance to maintain blind adherence to an archaic worldview that is crumbling under the weight of an ever-growing mountain of scientific evidence.  Every week brings news of the unearthing of yet another<\/A> marker<\/A> on evolution’s long and winding road.  Why, it’s enough to make the average creationist want to cancel his\/her newspaper subscription.  The effort to tune out the media’s coverage of discoveries of new fossils must be exhausting.  I wonder if they get migraines from the strain.  I’m offering an aspirin to the next creationist I meet, right before I start making denigrating remarks about their intelligence.<\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are times when I feel sorry for creationists and their incrementally better-dressed cousins, intelligent design advocates.  It must take a tremendous act of willful ignorance to maintain blind adherence to an archaic worldview that is crumbling under the weight of an ever-growing mountain of scientific evidence.  Every week brings news of the unearthing of […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-j3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}