{"id":2476,"date":"2008-01-04T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/01\/04\/the-cats-out-of-the-bag\/"},"modified":"2008-01-04T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T16:30:00","slug":"the-cats-out-of-the-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/04\/the-cats-out-of-the-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"The cat&#8217;s out of the bag&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent release of the NAS tome on evolution, and how evolution is good and creationist is bad, has been picked up by the religious community.  It was only a matter of time before they noticed.<!--more-->From the Ecumenical News International:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The US scientific community has begun 2008 with a strong offensive on evolution in the educational system, which often evokes the ire of advocates of creationism, a belief that humanity, life and the universe were created in their original form by a deity.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eni.ch\/news\/item.php?id=1510\">[source]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There isn&#8217;t much else.  They don&#8217;t seem to have much to say yet, other than the idea that somehow promoting excellent science education is an &#8220;offensive.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent release of the NAS tome on evolution, and how evolution is good and creationist is bad, has been picked up by the religious community. It was only a matter of time before they noticed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[55],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-DW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476"}],"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=2476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}