{"id":26102,"date":"2009-03-04T19:46:41","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T19:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/03\/04\/christians-split-on-evoluion\/"},"modified":"2009-03-04T19:46:41","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T19:46:41","slug":"christians-split-on-evoluion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/04\/christians-split-on-evoluion\/","title":{"rendered":"Christians Split on Evoluion"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p> A Texas-sized battle over scrapping a longtime requirement that Lone Star State students be taught weaknesses in the theory of evolution has split politicians, parents, and professors who teach biology at the state&#8217;s Christian universities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope to reach others on the weightier matters of the Resurrection, hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven while I work out how evolution does not have to conflict with Christianity,&#8221; said Daniel Brannan, a biology professor at Abilene Christian University.<\/p>\n<p>Brannan joined hundreds of scientists in signing a 21st Century Science Coalition petition that supports new curriculum standards for the state&#8217;s 4.7 million public-school students. The petition states that Evolution is an easily observable phenomenon that has been documented &#8220;beyond any reasonable doubt?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2009\/april\/1.18.html\"><br \/>\ndetails here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Texas-sized battle over scrapping a longtime requirement that Lone Star State students be taught weaknesses in the theory of evolution has split politicians, parents, and professors who teach biology at the state&#8217;s Christian universities. &#8220;I hope to reach others on the weightier matters of the Resurrection, hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/04\/christians-split-on-evoluion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christians Split on Evoluion<\/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":[207,55,156,2486,87],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6N0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26102"}],"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=26102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}