{"id":12425,"date":"2012-06-20T11:18:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T16:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=12425"},"modified":"2012-06-20T11:18:35","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T16:18:35","slug":"creationism-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/20\/creationism-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Creationism News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cringing in Kansas<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The renewed complaints of a few members of the Kansas state board of education about evolution is making Kansans cringe, according to the editorial board of the Lawrence Journal-World (June 15, 2012). As NCSE previously reported, when the board heard a presentation about the current status of the Next Generation Science Standards on June 12, 2012, Ken Willard, a member of the board, distributed a letter arguing that the draft standards &#8221; ignore evidence against evolution, don&#8217;t respect religious diversity, and promote secular humanism.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ncse.com\/news\/2012\/06\/cringing-kansas-007454\">Read the rest here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>NCSE&#8217;s Newton on creationism and climate change denial<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;What do creationists and climate change deniers have in common?&#8221; asks NCSE&#8217;s Steven Newton, writing in the May 2012 issue of the American Geoscience Institute&#8217;s magazine, Earth. &#8220;The answer to the riddle is that creationists and climate change deniers have a lot in common \u2014 most especially..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ncse.com\/news\/2012\/06\/ncses-newton-creationism-climate-change-denial-007457\">Read the rest here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cringing in Kansas The renewed complaints of a few members of the Kansas state board of education about evolution is making Kansans cringe, according to the editorial board of the Lawrence Journal-World (June 15, 2012). As NCSE previously reported, when the board heard a presentation about the current status of the Next Generation Science Standards &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/20\/creationism-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Creationism News<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-3ep","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12425"}],"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=12425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}