{"id":921,"date":"2005-08-03T22:00:27","date_gmt":"2005-08-03T22:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=921"},"modified":"2005-08-03T22:00:27","modified_gmt":"2005-08-03T22:00:27","slug":"junk_science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=921","title":{"rendered":"Junk Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Bush thinks that intelligent design and evolution <a href=\"http:\/\/pharyngula.org\/index\/weblog\/comments\/bush_endorses_intelligent_design_creationism\/\">should be taught side-by-side<\/a> in our nation&#8217;s science classrooms.  I&#8217;m surprised he didn&#8217;t also advocate teaching that thunder is the result of God bowling.  Because, hey, you can&#8217;t prove that God isn&#8217;t bowling.  I love how ID advocates love to call their fantasy a theory, as if that makes their assertions any more credible.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s what I don&#8217;t get about fundamentalist Christians.  They claim to detest everything Darwin&#8217;s theory implies about the origins of human life.  But many of them seem to practice a vigorous form of social Darwinism, i.e. if you&#8217;re poor, it&#8217;s most likely your fault.  Or you&#8217;re poor because you&#8217;re supposed to be poor.  At least, that&#8217;s what I hear from the mouths of many conservative Christian leaders.  Granted, it&#8217;s not exactly the same as saying we&#8217;re descended from monkeys, but it is definitely a variation on the theory of natural selection.<br \/>\nBut if we&#8217;re gonna teach ID in biology classes, then I totally think we should give equal time to the-world-is-carried-on-the-back-of-a-giant-turtle theory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bush thinks that intelligent design and evolution should be taught side-by-side in our nation&#8217;s science classrooms. I&#8217;m surprised he didn&#8217;t also advocate teaching that thunder is the result of God bowling. Because, hey, you can&#8217;t prove that God isn&#8217;t bowling. I love how ID advocates love to call their fantasy a theory, as if <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=921' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/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-921","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-eR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","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=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}