{"id":246,"date":"2007-07-14T15:03:39","date_gmt":"2007-07-14T19:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=246"},"modified":"2008-08-05T13:48:09","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T17:48:09","slug":"dont-be-afraid-of-question-marks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=246","title":{"rendered":"Don’t be afraid of question marks"},"content":{"rendered":"

This\u00c2\u00a0opinion piece<\/a> concerning faith and science makes some very good points well worth considering:<\/p>\n

A religious body or faith community that speaks only with exclamation points but no question marks misses the complexity of creation and the beauty of evolution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This\u00c2\u00a0opinion piece concerning faith and science makes some very good points well worth considering: A religious body or faith community that speaks only with exclamation points but no question marks misses the complexity of creation and the beauty of evolution.<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-3Y","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2021,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2021","url_meta":{"origin":246,"position":0},"title":"Surprising survey results","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"February 14, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The Orlando Sentinel has a \"Friday Back Talk\" section on the opinion page. 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