{"id":49,"date":"2006-09-29T07:24:11","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T11:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=49"},"modified":"2008-08-05T10:26:23","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T14:26:23","slug":"article-about-sun-dome-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"Article about Sun Dome event"},"content":{"rendered":"

Skeptics Will Debate Darwin At Sun Dome<\/a><\/p>\n

Skip Pierce, a professor of biology and former chairman of the University of South Florida biology department, says intelligent design is a religious doctrine that has no place in the science curriculums of public schools and universities because it has no basis in science.<\/p>\n

“You can believe whatever religion you want,” he said. “Just don’t do science from it.”<\/p>\n

Pierce also challenged the premise of those behind tonight’s forum.<\/p>\n

“It’s a special interest group,” he said. “They have only one thing in mind: to prove that intelligent design has credibility.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Skeptics Will Debate Darwin At Sun Dome Skip Pierce, a professor of biology and former chairman of the University of South Florida biology department, says intelligent design is a religious doctrine that has no place in the science curriculums of … 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":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-N","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":730,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=730","url_meta":{"origin":49,"position":0},"title":"Pinellas textbooks won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mention intelligent design","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"February 9, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Pinellas textbooks won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mention intelligent design Pinellas County biology students will find no mention of intelligent design in their new science textbooks next fall. 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