{"id":830,"date":"2008-09-17T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2008\/09\/if-only-the-dumb-were-dumb.html"},"modified":"2008-09-17T11:06:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T16:06:00","slug":"if-only-dumb-were-dumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2008\/09\/if-only-dumb-were-dumb.html","title":{"rendered":"If Only the Dumb Were Dumb&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But they aren&#8217;t dumb.  They have voices, and they take them to school board meetings.  The residents of Brunswick County, North Carolina must be so proud that their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starnewsonline.com\/article\/20080916\/ARTICLES\/809160338\/1004&amp;title=Brunswick_school_board_to_consider_creationism_teaching\">school board is investigating whether or not to teach Creationism<\/a> as an alternative to evolution.  It&#8217;s tempting to yet again eviscerate the underlying case for Creationism as a scientific theory like a disoriented moose wandering through the Palin&#8217;s backyard, but the scary part of this story goes beyond the narrow scope of teaching mythology as science.<\/p>\n<p>Key quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-style: italic;\"><p>&#8220;I wasn&#8217;t here 2 million years ago,&#8221; Fanti said. &#8220;If evolution is so slow, why don&#8217;t we see anything evolving now?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is this really the bar to set for appropriate educational topics?  Let&#8217;s not teach anything the community hasn&#8217;t observed first hand.  After all, I can&#8217;t count to a billion.  How do we really know numbers go that high?<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Fanti also wasn&#8217;t here 2 thousand years ago.  If Christian mythology is so real, why don&#8217;t we see any miracles happening now?<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But they aren&#8217;t dumb. They have voices, and they take them to school board meetings. The residents of Brunswick County,<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2008\/09\/if-only-dumb-were-dumb.html\" title=\"Read If Only the Dumb Were Dumb&#8230;\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/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":[],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}