{"id":13406,"date":"2008-12-29T13:19:49","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T20:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/12\/29\/creation-science-for-dummies.html"},"modified":"2008-12-29T13:19:49","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T20:19:49","slug":"creation_science_for_dumm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/29\/creation_science_for_dumm.html","title":{"rendered":"Creation Science for Dummies"},"content":{"rendered":"

A visit to The Creation Museum and the wonders seen there<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Um … yeah, don’t think I’m going to go out of my way to visit.<\/p>\n

Creation science does a disservice to both science and religion, by teaching that it’s okay to not use your God-given brain except to perform intellectual backflips and cognitive legerdemain in trying to demonstrate the literal truth of Genesis. It’s a battle that cannot, in the long run, be won, and by tying Christian faith to that anchor, it only puts their religion into further ill repute.<\/p>\n

UPDATED: Another fine post<\/a> on a related subject. No, it’s not just a matter of differing axioms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A visit to The Creation Museum and the wonders seen there.  Um … yeah, don’t think I’m going to go out of my way to visit. Creation science does a disservice…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6899,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/06\/you_will_respec.html","url_meta":{"origin":13406,"position":0},"title":"You will respect my authoritay!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 6-Dec-04 10:25am","format":false,"excerpt":"You only have to go to one room in this particular museum in order to get the gist of what's going to be said in all the other rooms. 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