{"id":1186,"date":"2005-05-10T11:15:39","date_gmt":"2005-05-10T15:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nateptest\/2005\/05\/10\/battle-of-origins-in-kansas\/"},"modified":"2005-05-10T11:15:39","modified_gmt":"2005-05-10T15:15:39","slug":"battle-of-origins-in-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/2005\/05\/10\/battle-of-origins-in-kansas\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle of Origins in Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1029'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanskritboy.net\">Ryan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/redstaterabble.blogspot.com\/\">Red State Rabble<\/a><br \/>\nnotes the following about the &#8220;intelligent design&#8221; battle going on in<br \/>\nKansas (BTW, &#8220;intelligent design&#8221; is the most intelligence-insulting<br \/>\ncover for creationism on the market):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Red State Rabble finds it highly ironic that the battle line between<br \/>\nscience and reason on the one hand, and zealotry and ignorance on the<br \/>\nother, have been drawn in a state that is so extraordinarily rich in<br \/>\nthe fossil evidence of our evolutionary past.<\/p>\n<p>RSR has seen the<br \/>\nexcitement and curiosity in our daughter&#8217;s eyes at the sight of marine<br \/>\nfossils so far from the sea. The worst thing about intelligent design,<br \/>\nand its country cousin, creationism, is that it seeks, quite openly, to<br \/>\ndeny our children a chance to experience for themselves that sense of<br \/>\nwonder and to replace it with some stern, all-knowing, Old Testament<br \/>\nGod.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t hear much about the &#8220;Sermon on the Mount&#8221; here in Kansas anymore.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah.&nbsp; Because these Christians don&#8217;t really believe in Jesus.&nbsp; They believe in power and authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Ryan, Red State Rabble notes the following about the &#8220;intelligent design&#8221; battle going on in Kansas (BTW, &#8220;intelligent design&#8221; is the most intelligence-insulting cover for creationism on the market): Red State Rabble finds it highly ironic that the battle line between science and reason on the one hand, and zealotry and ignorance on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politicks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5G3PH-j8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}