{"id":1835,"date":"2009-12-15T13:36:56","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T18:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/15\/pz-myers-re-the-science-of-evolution\/"},"modified":"2009-12-15T13:36:56","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T18:36:56","slug":"pz-myers-re-the-science-of-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/15\/pz-myers-re-the-science-of-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"PZ Myers re: The science of evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PZ Myers <a title=\"Pharyngula - I get email - PZ Myers\" href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2009\/12\/i_get_email_51.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">responded to another absurdist email<\/a> that chastised him about promoting the theory of evolution. The emailer says &quot;to have a degree or degrees in biology and to still believe in Darwinian theory, shows ignorance in the worst degree.&quot; PZ&#8217;s response was spot on and included this beautiful bit&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The science points ineluctably to evolution as a fact, as the mechanism for biological change over time. The only people who argue otherwise, and that includes those &#8216;sciences&#8217; [sic] you claim have concluded that the theory is false, are ideologues who have had their brains addled by non-scientific presuppositions, and who have decided that their fallacious traditional myths must supersede observation and evidence.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Perfect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PZ Myers responded to another absurdist email that chastised him about promoting the theory of evolution. The emailer says &quot;to have a degree or degrees in biology and to still believe in Darwinian theory, shows ignorance in the worst degree.&quot; PZ&#8217;s response was spot on and included this beautiful bit&#8230; The science points ineluctably to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/15\/pz-myers-re-the-science-of-evolution\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;PZ Myers re: The science of evolution&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[226,311,623,650,721],"class_list":["post-1835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","tag-creationism","tag-evolution","tag-pharyngula","tag-pz-myers","tag-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}