{"id":1799,"date":"2008-03-17T09:07:34","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T09:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/03\/17\/the-discovery-institute-is-bea\/"},"modified":"2008-03-17T09:07:34","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T09:07:34","slug":"the-discovery-institute-is-bea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/17\/the-discovery-institute-is-bea\/","title":{"rendered":"The Discovery Institute is Beating Up Larry Moran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, Larry said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;the right people hate Idiots&#8230;Wells makes a virtue out of lying for Jesus&#8230;He should be an embarrassment to the intelligent design creationist cult except that the members of that cult are all incapable of separating fact from fiction when it comes to science&#8230;When I first saw the Wells article I seriously wondered whether Jonathan Wells was mentally stable&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more-->Then, Michael Egnor said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dr. Moran has a low view of people who question his evolutionary views from the perspective of design.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Larry had previously said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Flunk the IDiots&#8230;40% of the freshman class [at UCSD] reject Darwinism&#8230; the university has become alarmed at the stupidity of its freshman class and has offered remedial instruction for those who believe in Intelligent Design Creationism&#8230;UCSD should not have required their uneducated students to attend remedial classes. Instead, they should never have admitted them in the first place&#8230;[T]he University should just flunk the lot of them and make room for smart students who have a chance of benefiting from a high quality education.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And so on and so forth.There is a developing tradition of evolutionary biologists not linking to the Discovery Institute site (for ethical reasons) and I&#8217;m going along with that, so you&#8217;ll have to find the link to the DI site on  your own.  I suggest looking up &#8220;Michael Egnor&#8221; on Google.In fact, I&#8217;ll save you the trouble.  Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22michael+egnor%22&#038;ie=utf-8&#038;oe=utf-8&#038;aq=t&#038;rls=Swiftfox:en-US:unofficial&#038;client=firefox-a\">Google Search<\/a> for &#8220;Michael Engore.&#8221;Here&#8217;s a link to Larry&#8217;s site, <a href=\"http:\/\/sandwalk.blogspot.com\/\">Sandwalk.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, Larry said: &#8230;the right people hate Idiots&#8230;Wells makes a virtue out of lying for Jesus&#8230;He should be an embarrassment to the intelligent design creationist cult except that the members of that cult are all incapable of separating fact from fiction when it comes to science&#8230;When I first saw the Wells article I seriously wondered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/17\/the-discovery-institute-is-bea\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Discovery Institute is Beating Up Larry Moran<\/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":[],"tags":[207,55,151,156],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-t1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799"}],"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=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}