{"id":681,"date":"2008-08-11T10:24:02","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T14:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=681"},"modified":"2008-09-29T14:42:53","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T18:42:53","slug":"medved-opens-mouth-inserts-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=681","title":{"rendered":"Medved Opens Mouth Inserts Foot"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>Those who feel Creationism (Intelligent Design) needs to be taught along side Evolution as a valid opposing scientific theory, often site \u00e2\u20ac\u0153evidence\u00e2\u20ac\u009d from the Discovery Institute.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Well Michael Medved, newly named Discovery Institute fellow, “opens mouth and inserts foot” with a\u00c2\u00a0gem of a statement in this interview<\/span><\/a> with the Jerusalem Post:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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“The important thing about Intelligent Design is that it is not a theory – which is something I think they need to make more clear. Nor is Intelligent Design an explanation. Intelligent Design is a challenge. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a challenge to evolution. It does not replace evolution with something else.”<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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I wholeheartedly agree with that statement, ID is little more than a “smoke and mirrors” campaign to discredit Evolution, complete with horse trader slogans and pseudo scientific hogwash..<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00c2\u00a0Those who feel Creationism (Intelligent Design) needs to be taught along side Evolution as a valid opposing scientific theory, often site \u00e2\u20ac\u0153evidence\u00e2\u20ac\u009d from the Discovery Institute. Well Michael Medved, newly named Discovery Institute fellow, “opens mouth and inserts foot” with … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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-aZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":687,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=687","url_meta":{"origin":681,"position":0},"title":"Discovery Institute Opens A Second Front With “Supernatural Cosmology”","author":"Jonathan Smith","date":"August 14, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I recived this e-mail today from Dr Paul D Cottle, a noted\u00c2\u00a0Professor of nuclear physics at FSU and a member of the Florida Citizens for Science. http:\/\/www.physics.fsu.edu\/Faculty\/CottlePaul.htm.\u00c2\u00a0He raises many interesting and valid points,so I have posted the letter in its entirety. \u00c2\u00a0It appears the Discovery Institute folks are opening a\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 5 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 5 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=687#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":612,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=612","url_meta":{"origin":681,"position":1},"title":"Why does a Louisiana issue matter in Florida?","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"June 18, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"We here in Florida endured a lengthy public debate concerning the teaching of evolution in our public schools. 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