{"id":949,"date":"2009-03-14T11:56:36","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T15:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=949"},"modified":"2009-04-30T19:52:10","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T23:52:10","slug":"tallahassee-democrat-is-on-the-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=949","title":{"rendered":"Tallahassee Democrat is on the ball"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Hohmeister at the Tallahassee Democrat treats Wise’s antievolution bill in the state senate as the garbage it truly is<\/a>. He then promotes the Origins ’09 event<\/a> that’s about to kick off in Tallahassee. And it also looks like a feature article on Origins ’09 will be in tomorrow’s paper. Awesome stuff!<\/p>\n

I’ll give them credit, the creationists are persistent.<\/p>\n

Oh, I’m sorry, I guess they aren’t creationists anymore. I meant to say proponents of a critical analysis of the scientific theory of evolution.<\/p>\n

Call them what you will, 200 years after the birth of Charles Darwin and 150 years after the publication of his “On the Origin of Species,” they’re still trying to use tax dollars to teach a Bible-based science that was left in the dust, well, at least 150 years ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mark Hohmeister at the Tallahassee Democrat treats Wise’s antievolution bill in the state senate as the garbage it truly is. He then promotes the Origins ’09 event that’s about to kick off in Tallahassee. 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