{"id":152,"date":"2005-01-06T14:30:32","date_gmt":"2005-01-06T19:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/archives\/2005\/01\/06\/intelligent-design\/"},"modified":"2012-04-28T18:42:39","modified_gmt":"2012-04-28T22:42:39","slug":"intelligent-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/2005\/01\/06\/intelligent-design\/","title":{"rendered":"intelligent design"},"content":{"rendered":"

~ there ain’t too much grand about leaving behind the quiet of georgia<\/a> for the wilds of philadelphia<\/a>, but at least it seems that our fellow pennsylvanians are trying to make us feel at home by demonstrating that they are no less ignorant than our cousins in cobb county: <\/p>\n

“A Pennsylvania school district on Wednesday rejected charges that plans to include references to an alternative to Darwin’s theory of evolution in high school biology classes would be illegal.<\/p>\n

The Dover Area School District near Harrisburg is the first in the United States to introduce “Intelligent Design,” a theory that the natural world is so complex it must have been made by an intelligent being, rather than occurring by chance, as held by Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution…-reuters<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

readers should note the framing technique of referring to plain creationism as ‘intelligent design’ – a rebranding of old school religion with a nomenclature that hopes to make it seem more credible by sounding vaguely scientific; the truth is the name hides just as much bullshit as orwellian named ‘defense of marriage act’ or ‘blue skies initiative’.<\/p>\n

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~ to whom was it that we were ranting that digital cameras should operate on the same level as cellphones or wireless laptops – you take a picture and it is saved to your desktop across town or across the country, instead of on a tiny flash or smart media card? billy in nyc or beth in wdc? regardless, one of you must have sold the idea, because slashdot [w<\/a>] is now reporting its fruition without me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

~ there ain’t too much grand about leaving behind the quiet of georgia for the wilds of philadelphia, but at least it seems that our fellow pennsylvanians are trying to make us feel at home by demonstrating that they are no less ignorant than our cousins in cobb county: “A Pennsylvania school district on Wednesday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,22],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-assholes","tag-objects"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2196,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/2196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}