{"id":1004,"date":"2005-08-09T14:28:22","date_gmt":"2005-08-09T21:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2005-08-09T14:28:22","modified_gmt":"2005-08-09T21:28:22","slug":"why-do-we-tolerate-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2005\/08\/09\/why-do-we-tolerate-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do We Tolerate This?:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(OK, I promised no more.  But this time, I can&#8217;t constrain the rant.  Warning evolution RANT ahead.)<br \/>\nThis,<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-content\/2003Dist10.jpg?w=525&#038;ssl=1\" alt='D. Chris Buttars'  \/><br \/>\nmy friends, is Utah state senator D. Chris Buttars.  State senator Buttars <a href=\"http:\/\/usatoday30.usatoday.com\/news\/opinion\/editorials\/2005-08-08-oppose_x.htm\">opinions<\/a> in today&#8217;s USA today, that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe trouble with the &#8220;missing link&#8221; is that it is still missing! In fact, the whole fossil chain that could link apes to man is also missing!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To which I can only respond with &#8220;The world is flat!  The world is flat!  The world is flat!&#8221;  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkorigins.org\/faqs\/homs\/species.html\">Nothing to see here<\/a>.  Or here (a picture I call&#8230;Earthdisk.)<br \/>\nWhy, oh why, should anything a scientist do benefit this man?  If he wants to be so anti-scientific as to believe that every single scientist is just spouting a bunch of bull, in effect insulting every single one of us, why should I (we) do anything to help improve his world?  If he wants to go back to before the enlightenment, he&#8217;s welcome to take that step.  All he needs to do is give up every single modern convenience which science led to.<br \/>\nOh, and why does there have to be such great skiing in Utah?<br \/>\n(Update: After calming down, no I don&#8217;t advoate withholding medicine etc. from this kind Senator.  But &#8220;When in the course of human events&#8221;&#8230;and I must say that my bond with him is pretty much ziltch.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(OK, I promised no more. But this time, I can&#8217;t constrain the rant. Warning evolution RANT ahead.) This, my friends, is Utah state senator D. Chris Buttars. State senator Buttars opinions in today&#8217;s USA today, that The trouble with the &#8220;missing link&#8221; is that it is still missing! In fact, the whole fossil chain that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2005\/08\/09\/why-do-we-tolerate-this\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why Do We Tolerate This?:&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[56,69,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion","category-society"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}