{"id":7998,"date":"2012-11-20T21:31:05","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T21:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=7998"},"modified":"2012-11-20T21:31:05","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T21:31:05","slug":"dumb-sentence-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/dumb-sentence-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Dumb sentence of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redstate.com\/2012\/11\/20\/i-believe-and-am-thankful\/\">I Believe and Am Thankful<\/a>: &#8220;Believing what was believed to be literally true for a few thousand years is now nutty.&#8221; Yes, that&#8217;s how it goes in <b>science<\/b>. Aristotle&#8217;s ethics may be relevant for moderns, but his physics most certainly is not. I tire of the attempt to portray Creationists as the only sinners against the truth, when the reality is that some of the most vociferous mockers of Creationists are the most strident <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2012\/05\/h-allen-orr-most-influential-evolutionary-biologist-of-all-time\/\">evolution rejectionists<\/a> in any pragmatic sense. <b>But any conservative take on these issues has to admit that the scientific consensus is what it is, and scientific consensus of this magnitude is not to be taken lightly as a &#8216;theory&#8217; or &#8216;opinion.&#8217;<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Believe and Am Thankful: &#8220;Believing what was believed to be literally true for a few thousand years is now nutty.&#8221; Yes, that&#8217;s how it goes in science. Aristotle&#8217;s ethics may be relevant for moderns, but his physics most certainly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/dumb-sentence-of-the-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7998"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7999,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7998\/revisions\/7999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}