{"id":32,"date":"2006-04-07T09:26:55","date_gmt":"2006-04-07T13:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=32"},"modified":"2006-04-07T09:26:55","modified_gmt":"2006-04-07T13:26:55","slug":"the-sight-of-creationist-arses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"The sight of creationist arses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had not realised the aggression of modern creationists. They are all over <em>Nature&#8217;s<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/news\/blog\/2006\/04\/the_fish_that_crawled_out_of_t.html#comment-7176\">newsblog report<\/a> on <em>Tiktaalik.<\/em> One of them drew a really awe-inspiring smackdown from Henry Gee. This gained its effectiveness becasue it was theological &#8212; a rebuke from someone who can actually read the bible in the original. There is a sense in which American protestantism has grown much more blindly authoritarian since the nineteenth century, when educated people could actually read Greek, Latin and Hebrew. But of course this isn&#8217;t really an argument about facts. It consists almost entirely of young men coming in and showing their arses to the enemy. I don&#8217;t know what can cure this, so long as they stay at a safe distance.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had not realised the aggression of modern creationists. They are all over Nature&#8217;s newsblog report on Tiktaalik. One of them drew a really awe-inspiring smackdown from Henry Gee. This gained its effectiveness becasue it was theological &#8212; a rebuke &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=32\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=32\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}