{"id":10042,"date":"2011-08-11T11:57:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T11:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/08\/11\/elevators-and-privilege-a-lett-1\/"},"modified":"2011-08-11T11:57:58","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T11:57:58","slug":"elevators-and-privilege-a-lett-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/11\/elevators-and-privilege-a-lett-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a person be scientifically literate without accepting the concepts of evolution and the big bang?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Can a person be scientifically literate without accepting the concepts of evolution and the big bang? To many scientists and educators, the answer to that question is an unqualified &#8220;no.&#8221; But the National Science Board&#8211;the governing body of the National Science Foundation (NSF)&#8211;isn&#8217;t sure that rejecting evolution for religious reasons automatically undermines a person&#8217;s scientific literacy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>yes it does<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/333\/6041\/394.short\">paper in question<\/a> is behind a firewall, but I may be discussing it later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can a person be scientifically literate without accepting the concepts of evolution and the big bang? To many scientists and educators, the answer to that question is an unqualified &#8220;no.&#8221; But the National Science Board&#8211;the governing body of the National Science Foundation (NSF)&#8211;isn&#8217;t sure that rejecting evolution for religious reasons automatically undermines a person&#8217;s scientific &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/11\/elevators-and-privilege-a-lett-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Can a person be scientifically literate without accepting the concepts of evolution and the big bang?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2BY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}