{"id":124,"date":"2005-06-14T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-14T16:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=124"},"modified":"2008-02-20T09:49:28","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T14:49:28","slug":"the-idiocy-of-intelligent-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2005\/06\/14\/the-idiocy-of-intelligent-design\/","title":{"rendered":"The idiocy of intelligent design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago, I posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/momm-eh.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/call-me-steve.html\">rant <\/a>about creationism versus evolution and the brilliant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncseweb.org\/article.asp?category=18\">Project Steve<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I was on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badastronomy.com\/bablog\/?p=67\">favourite astronomy blog<\/a> reading Phil Plait&#8217;s most recent tirade on the same subject, and I think it&#8217;s important reading for anybody concerned about critical thinking and what we are teaching our kids. He says, &#8220;[Creationists] want to turn our classrooms in a theocratically-controlled anti-science breeding ground, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not going to sit by and watch it happen.&#8221; There are a lot of comments on the post, but they are worth skimming through. Trust me on this one.<\/p>\n<p>I read on the weekend that a stunning 55 per cent of Americans believe in creationism over evolution, a statistic stuns me and frankly makes me want to weep.<\/p>\n<p>Please, take a minute to inform yourself about this, and do what you can to support the cause. Speak up, the time is now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago, I posted a rant about creationism versus evolution and the brilliant Project Steve. Today, I was on my favourite astronomy blog reading Phil Plait&#8217;s most recent tirade on the same subject, and I think it&#8217;s important reading for anybody concerned about critical thinking and what we are teaching our kids. He says, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2005\/06\/14\/the-idiocy-of-intelligent-design\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The idiocy of intelligent design&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-inner-geek","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}