{"id":1895,"date":"2008-04-03T11:39:04","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T18:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1895"},"modified":"2008-04-03T11:39:04","modified_gmt":"2008-04-03T18:39:04","slug":"lets-make-them-fight-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/04\/03\/lets-make-them-fight-each-other\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#039;s Make Them Fight Each Other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh no: do the Christian creationists know that by taking down Darwin they might inadvertently aid Eastern religions?  Witness: the <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceandscientist.org\/current.php\">Bhaktivedanta Institute Newsletter<\/a>.  Personally I want a grunge match between the Discovery Institute and the Bhaktivedanta Institute to see who can out pseudoscience each other.  &#8220;No my psychogenetic fallacy definitely trumps your silly fallacy of division!&#8221;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAmong many gems in this newsletter, I particularly like their statement of purpose:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Modern science has generally been directed toward investigating the material world, excluding consideration of the conscious scientist who is essential to the whole process, since, of course, the nature of the scientific endeavor itself depends upon consciousness.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anyone who thinks that science depends on consciousness hasn&#8217;t witnessed sleep deprived graduate students in the lab \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nOh, and as an added bonus, here is a video for those who want to see genetic arguments used to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldviewweekend.com\/tube\">reason about Noah&#8217;s ark<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh no: do the Christian creationists know that by taking down Darwin they might inadvertently aid Eastern religions? Witness: the Bhaktivedanta Institute Newsletter. Personally I want a grunge match between the Discovery Institute and the Bhaktivedanta Institute to see who can out pseudoscience each other. &#8220;No my psychogenetic fallacy definitely trumps your silly fallacy of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/04\/03\/lets-make-them-fight-each-other\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Let&#039;s Make Them Fight Each Other&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[23,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creationism","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895","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=1895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}