{"id":1089,"date":"2009-07-13T07:01:44","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T11:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2009-07-13T10:22:59","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T14:22:59","slug":"attacking-straw-men-and-mocked-creationists%e2%80%99-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1089","title":{"rendered":"“attacking straw men, and mocked creationists\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 intelligence”"},"content":{"rendered":"

A website for Creation Ministries took notice of our recent Stick Science contest. It got under a grumpy someone’s skin, apparently. Despite calling the contest “a fizzer”, it was nonetheless important enough for the writer to spend time picking apart each and every one of the top ten entries<\/a>. It looks like reader comments on the article\u00c2\u00a0can be submitted, but apparently they must be screened first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A website for Creation Ministries took notice of our recent Stick Science contest. It got under a grumpy someone’s skin, apparently. Despite calling the contest “a fizzer”, it was nonetheless important enough for the writer to spend time picking apart … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-hz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":992,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=992","url_meta":{"origin":1089,"position":0},"title":"Clarification of Stick Science contest rules","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"April 7, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been getting some entries in our Stick Science Cartoon contest that are, unfortunately, not touching on the reason for the contest: science education. 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