{"id":939,"date":"2009-03-08T09:19:49","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T14:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=939"},"modified":"2009-04-30T20:05:10","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T00:05:10","slug":"one-mangled-letter-prompts-flood-of-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=939","title":{"rendered":"One mangled letter prompts flood of response"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in Febraury in the Palm Beach Post a professor of sociology wrote a letter to the editor: “Darwin’s theory, though valid, takes faith, too<\/a>.” It was a mangled mess of a letter that demonstrated just how ignorant the writer was concerning biology and evolution. Several other folks thought the same thing and decided to write their own letters to set the record straight. Those letters, along with a couple of other Darwin-related ones, are in today’s paper<\/a>. Take a moment to read through them; it’s a great smack-down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in Febraury in the Palm Beach Post a professor of sociology wrote a letter to the editor: “Darwin’s theory, though valid, takes faith, too.” It was a mangled mess of a letter that demonstrated just how ignorant the writer … 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-f9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":639,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=639","url_meta":{"origin":939,"position":0},"title":"Please correct the record","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"July 5, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"A persistent letter writer to the TCPalm looks to be having his way with his creationist fantasies in the newspaper. Have a look (bold highlight mine): Roger Hule recently wrote in answering mine and several other letters objecting to his support of evolution. The letter was long on rhetoric and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Antiscience nonsense"","block_context":{"text":"Antiscience nonsense","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=21"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":306,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=306","url_meta":{"origin":939,"position":1},"title":"Dueling letters on evolution","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"October 29, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Two letters to the Orlando Sentinel cover opposing viewpoints concerning evolution education. The first letter\u00c2\u00a0takes some previous letter writers to task for their misconceptions and convoluted reasoning: Please remember that gravity is \"just a theory,\" too, but I have not heard of any Christians protesting its place in science classes,\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":1521,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1521","url_meta":{"origin":939,"position":2},"title":"Dueling letters","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"April 22, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"There's been an interesting series of letters in the Naples Daily News these past few weeks about evolution and creationism. It started with Dr. Malnak's letter April 11 in which he promotes evolution and dismisses creationism. 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The creationist and climate change denying group Florida Citizens' Alliance has been encouraging their members to respond to the Associated Press article that they don't like:\u00c2\u00a0New Florida law expected to increase\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 3 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 3 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=3013#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":728,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=728","url_meta":{"origin":939,"position":4},"title":"Textbooks changed under pressure","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"March 14, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Florida Citizens for Science was under a time crunch to get a letter out to the Brevard County school board about science textbook selections. 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