{"id":8594,"date":"2010-08-25T21:10:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T21:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/08\/25\/a-new-theory-of-evolution-prov\/"},"modified":"2010-08-25T21:10:21","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T21:10:21","slug":"a-new-theory-of-evolution-prov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/25\/a-new-theory-of-evolution-prov\/","title":{"rendered":"“A new theory of evolution proves what Sarah Palin has always known: Darwin was a retard”"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I predicted earlier today<\/a>, various journalists are taking up the theme that “Darwin was wrong” because he did not predict that niches into which organisms evolved would be a major controlling feature in the overall pattern of evolution.<\/p>\n

But of course, he did, and the new research being referred to does not “disprove darwin.”<\/p>\n

At least the piece I’m referring to here<\/a> takes a somewhat tongue in cheek attitude towards the story.<\/p>\n

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“Survival of the fittest,” the Darwinian theory that has been absorbed as scientific fact for the last 150 years, has finally been disproven. A new study published in the highly respected journal “Biology Letters” has proved that creationism and immaculate conception as not only scientifically valid, but true beyond any reasonable doubt.<\/p>\n

Just kidding…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, it seems to be a joke, but this particular writeup by Carmel Lobello still mindlessly reports that the new research “contradicts Darwin’s most important work.”<\/p>\n

No it doesn’t.<\/p>\n

I think the root of this problem may be in the press office linked to the paper itself, or may be the authors. Nimrods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I predicted earlier today, various journalists are taking up the theme that “Darwin was wrong” because he did not predict that niches into which organisms evolved would be a major controlling feature in the overall pattern of evolution. But of course, he did, and the new research being referred to does not “disprove darwin.” … Continue reading “A new theory of evolution proves what Sarah Palin has always known: Darwin was a retard”<\/span> →<\/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":[180],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2eC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8594"}],"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=8594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}