{"id":4485,"date":"2009-02-09T10:17:02","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T10:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/02\/09\/fact-vs-theory\/"},"modified":"2009-02-09T10:17:02","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T10:17:02","slug":"fact-vs-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/09\/fact-vs-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact vs. Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Genie Scott&#8217;s new edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0313344272?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0313344272\">Evolution vs. Creationism<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0313344272\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> is especially useful for people in the trenches in this so called &#8216;debate&#8217; because Scott manages to touch on virtually every point of argument you will run into if you are, say, a life science teacher. For instance, the role of &#8216;theory&#8217; vs. &#8216;fact&#8217; and &#8216;hypothesis&#8217; and so on is generally misunderstood by students and the general public &#8230; and this misunderstanding then exploited by the creationists.  So, this issue is dealt with clearly.  Have a look.  The top list is how many people rank these terms in importance, and here Scott contrasts the popular view with what scientists would generally do.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-9e75174cec54b0e151acb193e140cb92-just_the_facts_mam_.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-9e75174cec54b0e151acb193e140cb92-just_the_facts_mam_.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genie Scott&#8217;s new edition of Evolution vs. Creationism is especially useful for people in the trenches in this so called &#8216;debate&#8217; because Scott manages to touch on virtually every point of argument you will run into if you are, say, a life science teacher. For instance, the role of &#8216;theory&#8217; vs. &#8216;fact&#8217; and &#8216;hypothesis&#8217; and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/09\/fact-vs-theory\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fact vs. Theory<\/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],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1al","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485"}],"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=4485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}