{"id":1218,"date":"2010-08-19T14:13:52","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T18:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2010-08-19T14:13:52","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T18:13:52","slug":"gainesville-sun-opinion-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1218","title":{"rendered":"Gainesville Sun opinion series"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Gainesville Sun has been running a series of guest opinion pieces concerning the evolution\/creationism controversy. This one by Amanda McIntosh<\/a> is a garbled mess of reasoning. On the other hand, the one by Gregory Mead<\/a> had me cheering.<\/p>\n

In contrast, supporters of creationism want special treatment. Creationists and IDers do no research, generate no data, publish no papers in peer reviewed journals, never defend their ideas at conferences before other scientists. Instead, by twisting what scientists say, by misinterpreting actual scientific research, they try to throw doubt on evolutionary science done by real scientists. Creationists want their ideas placed before our school children without actual research. Is this \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fair\u00e2\u20ac\u009d?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Gainesville Sun has been running a series of guest opinion pieces concerning the evolution\/creationism controversy. This one by Amanda McIntosh is a garbled mess of reasoning. On the other hand, the one by Gregory Mead had me cheering. 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