{"id":1221,"date":"2010-08-30T06:55:56","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T10:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2010-08-30T06:55:56","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T10:55:56","slug":"gainesville-sun-opinion-series-cont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1221","title":{"rendered":"Gainesville Sun opinion series cont."},"content":{"rendered":"

The Gainesville Sun has been running a series of guest opinion pieces concerning the evolution\/creationism controversy. The newest one<\/a> isn’t reasoned out too well.<\/p>\n

I was thinking about the controversy of whether or not the theory of intelligent creation should be taught in our schools, and realized that the main charge in our schools is to impart knowledge. Whether or not I believe in the theory of creationism, there are well over a billion people on this planets that do. Therefore this must be included with any other major theories.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Gainesville Sun has been running a series of guest opinion pieces concerning the evolution\/creationism controversy. The newest one isn’t reasoned out too well. I was thinking about the controversy of whether or not the theory of intelligent creation should … 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-jH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1218,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1218","url_meta":{"origin":1221,"position":0},"title":"Gainesville Sun opinion series","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"August 19, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The Gainesville Sun has been running a series of guest opinion pieces concerning the evolution\/creationism controversy. 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