{"id":6007,"date":"2009-08-04T15:55:54","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T15:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/08\/04\/creationist-novel-linked-to-ex\/"},"modified":"2009-08-04T15:55:54","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T15:55:54","slug":"creationist-novel-linked-to-ex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/04\/creationist-novel-linked-to-ex\/","title":{"rendered":"Creationist Novel linked to Expelled! to be released shortly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strike>The &#8216;documentary&#8217; (or, actually, &#8220;stupidumentary&#8221;) Expelled! No intelligence allowed &#8230; bla bla bla &#8230; coordinated with this release will be a novel called Fossil Hunter, by John Olson (obviously a made up name) &#8230; bla bla bla &#8230; which is about a scientist who is maligned and harassed by the rest of the scientific community because she questions evolutionary dogma.<\/strike><\/p>\n<p>Never mind that. This is a link to a recently released review of a book from last year.  You can go comment on the review, if you like!<\/p>\n<p>Here, you read about it, I&#8217;m going to take a nap:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Dr. James leads an expedition into the arid Iraqi desert to find the rest of the ancient whale fossil a shepherd had found, she couldn&#8217;t know her results would threaten the current theory of evolution, her employment, and prestige, and call her faith into question. She couldn&#8217;t know that circumstances would bring her adversary and competitor, Dr. Murad, to Iraq when she discovers an ancient human fossil so controversial it puts her entire expedition in danger.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The book is reviewed by The Examiner, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-15805-Seattle-Christian-Book-Review-Examiner~y2009m8d3-Fossil-Hunter-by-John-B-Olson\">here<\/a>.  I warn you:  The reviewer is the &#8220;Seattle Christian Book Review Examiner, so&#8230; well, whatever.<\/p>\n<p>Hat tip Virgil Samms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8216;documentary&#8217; (or, actually, &#8220;stupidumentary&#8221;) Expelled! No intelligence allowed &#8230; bla bla bla &#8230; coordinated with this release will be a novel called Fossil Hunter, by John Olson (obviously a made up name) &#8230; bla bla bla &#8230; which is about a scientist who is maligned and harassed by the rest of the scientific community &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/04\/creationist-novel-linked-to-ex\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Creationist Novel linked to Expelled! to be released shortly<\/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\/p5fhV1-1yT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6007"}],"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=6007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}