{"id":2146,"date":"2009-06-10T11:22:12","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T19:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=2146"},"modified":"2009-06-10T11:22:12","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T19:22:12","slug":"angels-demons-science-and-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/angels-demons-science-and-meaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels, Demons, Science, and Meaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times science columnist Dennis Overbye has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/02\/science\/02essay.html?_r=1&amp;scp=4&amp;sq=dennis%20overbye%20tom%20hanks&amp;st=cse\">nuanced column <\/a>on the semi-condescending attitude towards science as a potential source of wisdom in Angels and Demons, the new Tom Hanks movie\u00a0(which I haven&#8217;t seen).\u00a0 I think that Overbye actually concedes too much to the religious view that meaning comes from belief in a transcendental reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times science columnist Dennis Overbye has a nuanced column on the semi-condescending attitude towards science as a potential source of wisdom in Angels and Demons, the new Tom Hanks movie\u00a0(which I haven&#8217;t seen).\u00a0 I think that Overbye actually &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/angels-demons-science-and-meaning\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[72],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2147,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions\/2147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}