{"id":8730,"date":"2010-09-14T21:00:21","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T21:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/09\/14\/texas-governor-evolution-vs-cr\/"},"modified":"2010-09-14T21:00:21","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T21:00:21","slug":"texas-governor-evolution-vs-cr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/14\/texas-governor-evolution-vs-cr\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Governor: Evolution vs Creationism in Texas Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Rick Perry&#8217;s position is that he believes in &#8220;Intelligent Design&#8221; as a matter of faith and intellect.  Well, his faith is out of place (did he not swear to protect and defend the US constitution? On a bible?) and his intellect is clearly damaged by exposure to those wide open Texas spaces.  Between his ears.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ketknbc.com\/news\/evolution-in-school-gov-perry-and-bill-white-disagree\"><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s the story, where you can see the news bit and if you like leave a comment!<\/a>  (I did.)<\/p>\n<p>Notice the major blunder the reporter in this video makes:  Explicitly distinguishing between creationism and intelligent design.  Also, of course, the unquestioning assumption that public opinion is the arbiter of what is valid scientifically.<\/p>\n<p>Texas.  <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/about.php#YourState\">Jeesh<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Rick Perry&#8217;s position is that he believes in &#8220;Intelligent Design&#8221; as a matter of faith and intellect. Well, his faith is out of place (did he not swear to protect and defend the US constitution? On a bible?) and his intellect is clearly damaged by exposure to those wide open Texas spaces. Between his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/14\/texas-governor-evolution-vs-cr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Texas Governor: Evolution vs Creationism in Texas Schools<\/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\/p5fhV1-2gO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8730"}],"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=8730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}