{"id":1716,"date":"2012-10-18T06:32:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T10:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1716"},"modified":"2012-10-18T06:32:09","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T10:32:09","slug":"darwin-a-write-in-candidate-in-ga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1716","title":{"rendered":"Darwin a write-in candidate in GA"},"content":{"rendered":"

ATLANTA \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Having denounced evolution as a lie “straight from the pit of hell,” Republican Rep. Paul Broun has won himself a new political opponent: Charles Darwin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now scientists are questioning whether Broun, a medical doctor and Baptist from Athens, should serve on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee if he rejects widely accepted scientific ideas. And a talk radio host in nearby Atlanta is trying to rally voters to cast write-in votes for Darwin, the English naturalist who first published his theory of evolution in 1859. …<\/p>\n

A Facebook page titled “Darwin for Congress” went up Oct. 8 urging supporters to take a stand against Broun. As of Tuesday it had just 45 “likes” \u00e2\u20ac\u201d less than half the membership of a similar Facebook group calling for Broun’s ouster from the House science committee.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As of this post, the likes are up to 614. Here’s the Facebook page<\/a>. What a catchy campaign slogan: Evolve!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ATLANTA \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Having denounced evolution as a lie “straight from the pit of hell,” Republican Rep. Paul Broun has won himself a new political opponent: Charles Darwin. 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U.S. Representative from Georgia Paul Broun is on a science committee and yet denies basic science: \"All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the Big Bang Theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell,\" he said. But did you\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":45,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=45","url_meta":{"origin":1716,"position":1},"title":"Darwin and the Racing Asparagus","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"September 20, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a great NPR story on Charles Darwin. FlCfS president Joe Wolf told me when he brought this story to my attention that, \"It is told as a story but it is really teaching about science and evolution. 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Humanists of Sarasota Bay will host a Darwin Day event: Nancy Howell, professor emerita of sociology at the University of Toronto, will be speaking on \"Human Evolution: A Kalahari Perspective\" at 11:30 a.m. on February 7,\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 1 comment","block_context":{"text":"With 1 comment","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2264#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":466,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=466","url_meta":{"origin":1716,"position":4},"title":"continued","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"February 19, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"david bracken--teacher 23 years. concern with evolution standarrrds. 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