{"id":162,"date":"2007-02-22T17:48:30","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T21:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=162"},"modified":"2008-08-05T12:08:32","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T16:08:32","slug":"npr-science-friday-evolution-creationism-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"NPR Science Friday: evolution, creationism, education"},"content":{"rendered":"

NPR Science Friday will tackle the subjects of evolution, creationism and education<\/a>. One guest is Edward Humes, who wrote the book “Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America’s Soul.” The book is about the Dover, Penn. trial. I recently finished reading the book and can vouch for how good and thorough it is. If I ever get some extra time, I’ll try to do a book review.<\/p>\n

Anyway, listen to the NPR show if you get the chance. It should be good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NPR Science Friday will tackle the subjects of evolution, creationism and education. One guest is Edward Humes, who wrote the book “Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America’s Soul.” The book is about the Dover, Penn. trial. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-2C","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2208,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2208","url_meta":{"origin":162,"position":0},"title":"Creationism in Pinellas County school board race","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"August 7, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"NOTE: See update at the end of this post. 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