{"id":1189,"date":"2010-05-15T10:39:39","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T14:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2010-05-15T10:39:39","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T14:39:39","slug":"another-dentist-blows-off-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1189","title":{"rendered":"Another dentist blows off evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a story about an evolution denier in the St. Petersburg Times<\/a>. Just gotta love some of his quotes:<\/p>\n

“Their absolute complexity, the order, the regularity, the predictability, the symmetry, the beauty \u00e2\u20ac\u201d an explosion, such as in the big bang theory, does not produce those kinds of things,” [dentist Jobe Martin] said.<\/p>\n

“Because we live in Satan’s world system, it’s based on deception and so we’re not allowed to hear about things that can’t be explained using evolution, so they just don’t put them in the textbooks,”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a story about an evolution denier in the St. Petersburg Times. Just gotta love some of his quotes: “Their absolute complexity, the order, the regularity, the predictability, the symmetry, the beauty \u00e2\u20ac\u201d an explosion, such as in the big … 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-jb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":597,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=597","url_meta":{"origin":1189,"position":0},"title":"Flossing leads to cavities, right?","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"June 2, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"When confronted by someone who loudly criticizes evolution and yet obviously has no actual knowledge of the subject, I try to demonstrate for the person how foolish he or she is looking. I typically use an example of a patient loudly criticizing his dentist. He rattles on and on about\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Antiscience nonsense"","block_context":{"text":"Antiscience nonsense","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=21"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":666,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=666","url_meta":{"origin":1189,"position":1},"title":"Tomfoolery in Texas","author":"Jonathan Smith","date":"July 26, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Dentist\" Don McLeroy, and the Texas Board of Education is gearing up to return science education in Texas back to the 19th century.This is the latest efforts by religious conservatives to discredit TOE after efforts to incorporate\u00c2\u00a0creationism into the science standards have repeatedly failed. 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