{"id":858,"date":"2009-01-10T20:34:27","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T01:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=858"},"modified":"2009-02-28T14:23:55","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T19:23:55","slug":"naples-daily-news-guest-commentary-on-darwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=858","title":{"rendered":"Naples Daily News: guest commentary on Darwin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is a nice guest commentary published in the Naples Daily News: The bicentennial of 2 great men: the emancipator and the evolutionist<\/a>. Expect some online comments at the newspaper’s site, and future letters to the editor in response, though.<\/p>\n

To date, despite the incredible lobbying and legal challenging of those creationists who have pushed for the teaching of some alternative to biologic evolution in public schools, no evidence has been uncovered that indicates the basics of Darwin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s theory are not factual. Quite the contrary, even the believers in so-called creation science or intelligent design have yet to come up with any significant evidence of a supernatural cause for the origin of species that can stand up to the standards of the scientific method, allowing the results to be published in established peer-reviewed scientific journals. All they continue to do is claim since everything about biologic evolution is not completely understood, the only alternative is some type of supernatural process must have done it.<\/p>\n

Misrepresentation of biologic evolution denies science students the basic level of scientific literacy necessary for them and our country to be able to compete in a more competitive world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is a nice guest commentary published in the Naples Daily News: The bicentennial of 2 great men: the emancipator and the evolutionist. Expect some online comments at the newspaper’s site, and future letters to the editor in response, though. … 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-dQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":251,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=251","url_meta":{"origin":858,"position":0},"title":"How can evolutionary cousins be so different?","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"July 22, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a good little essay on the relationship between humans and chimps in the Naples Daily News. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been known for more than 30 years that human beings and chimpanzees have more than 98 percent of their genes in common. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s right. As far as our genes are concerned,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Analysis\/Commentary"","block_context":{"text":"Analysis\/Commentary","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=4"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":22,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=22","url_meta":{"origin":858,"position":1},"title":"Interesting opinion column","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"August 30, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's an interesting opinion piece that ran in a Naples paper. It mentions some other article supposedly published in the same paper about an opposing view, but I couldn't find that other piece.","rel":"","context":"In "Analysis\/Commentary"","block_context":{"text":"Analysis\/Commentary","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=4"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2684,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2684","url_meta":{"origin":858,"position":2},"title":"“The truth is going to be different based on your own experience and your own bias”","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"April 17, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"An article in today's Naples Daily News reports on the textbook selection process going on right now in Collier County:\u00c2\u00a0Committee presents new textbooks, Collier school board to vote next month. 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