{"id":298,"date":"2006-02-15T22:58:48","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T03:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2006\/02\/15\/dar-whinnies-vs-moonbats\/"},"modified":"2006-02-15T22:58:48","modified_gmt":"2006-02-16T03:58:48","slug":"dar-whinnies-vs-moonbats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/298","title":{"rendered":"Dar-whinnies vs Moonbats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday&#8217;s gathering at Mack&#8217;s cabin was cancelled due to weather, so we didn&#8217;t get to hear the invited speaker&#8212;an evolutionist who is also a devout Catholic. Indirectly related to that, I discovered that Deepak Chopra <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intentblog.com\/archives\/2005\/08\/intelligent_des_1.html\">posted his views<\/a> on the debate between Intelligent Design and Evolution at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intentblog.com\/\">intentBlog<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>The responses to his opinion are not surprising. <a href=\"http:\/\/words.haddons.net\/archives\/000048.html\">For some<\/a>, it solidifies their regard for his keen ability to articulate emerging concepts that integrate science and religion. <a href=\"http:\/\/pharyngula.org\/index\/weblog\/comments\/moonbat_anti_evolutionist_deepak_chopra\/\">For others<\/a>, it just reinforces their attitude that he&#8217;s one of the more popular con artists on the new-age scene.\n<\/p>\n<p>This subject holds some interest for me, but, like the debate over abortion, the endless argumentation rarely moves beyond tedium. The fixed mindsets of the energetic allow little room for <a href=\"http:\/\/gruntledcenter.blogspot.com\/2006\/02\/sociobiology-3-evolution-and.html\">moderate viewpoints<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday&#8217;s gathering at Mack&#8217;s cabin was cancelled due to weather, so we didn&#8217;t get to hear the invited speaker&#8212;an evolutionist who is also a devout Catholic. Indirectly related to that, I discovered that Deepak Chopra posted his views on the debate between Intelligent Design and Evolution at intentBlog. The responses to his opinion are not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,16,56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}