{"id":1193,"date":"2010-06-09T17:56:19","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T21:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2010-06-09T17:56:19","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T21:56:19","slug":"age-of-the-earth-debate-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1193","title":{"rendered":"Age of the Earth Debate Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brandon had previously posted a letter to the editor disputing the age of the earth and advocating a young earth: here<\/span><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and two responses trash him. Good stuff: here.<\/span><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 In a follow up letter <\/a>to the Lakeland Ledger, the original writer is complaining of his treatment. He also\u00c2\u00a0trots out the same old canards that evolution causes a lack of morality and is responsible for racism in the US. How many times have we heard these arguments?\u00c2\u00a0 I have already sent a rebuttal, but feel free to let your thoughts be known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brandon had previously posted a letter to the editor disputing the age of the earth and advocating a young earth: here\u00c2\u00a0and two responses trash him. Good stuff: here.\u00c2\u00a0 In a follow up letter to the Lakeland Ledger, the original writer … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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-jf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1190,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1190","url_meta":{"origin":1193,"position":0},"title":"Age of earth debate","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"May 17, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I can't find the original article online at the Lakeland Ledger site, but there was a letter to the editor recently disputing the age of the earth and advocating a young earth: here. 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Whether the Earth was created in 7 days, or 7 actual eras, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 16 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 16 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1771#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":97,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=97","url_meta":{"origin":1193,"position":2},"title":"Letter to the editor about science FCAT","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"November 15, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is an interesting letter to the editor about the science FCAT: As a science graduate and education specialist teaching science in high school, I find myself along with other teachers arresting our science curriculum in anatomy and physiology, physics, zoology, environmental science and chemistry to help our students either\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Analysis\/Commentary"","block_context":{"text":"Analysis\/Commentary","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=4"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1591,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1591","url_meta":{"origin":1193,"position":3},"title":"COPE … not much there","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"June 13, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"My previous post asked y'all to see what you can dig up about Citizens for Objective Public Education, Inc. The group apparently has roots in Florida as well as Kansas and I wanted to make sure we found out all we could to better prepare ourselves for whatever may hit\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 11 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 11 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1591#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":34,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=34","url_meta":{"origin":1193,"position":4},"title":"Sigh … Hovind gets free press","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"September 10, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Kent Hovind got some free press for his fantasy park. I don't quite grasp the reason for the story in the first place. True science gets a one-sentence, weak refutation in the story, which shows a certain bias or laziness on the part of the reporter. What a crock! Hovind,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "In the News"","block_context":{"text":"In the News","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1235,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1235","url_meta":{"origin":1193,"position":5},"title":"Debating the age of the earth","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"October 20, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, your calendar still says 2010. But you are probably going to think you're in a time warp, though, as you read this article in the Florida Baptist Witness: HOW OLD? Age of Earth debated among SBC scholars. Why do I care about what these folks think? 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