{"id":156,"date":"2007-03-31T21:22:02","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T05:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/31\/are-we-evolving\/"},"modified":"2007-04-03T18:42:51","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T02:42:51","slug":"are-we-evolving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/misc\/politics\/are-we-evolving\/","title":{"rendered":"Are We Evolving?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog-images-07\/mikes-ceiling.jpg\" title=\"the divine touch\" alt=\"the divine touch\" height=\"259\" width=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not much sign of it in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/17875540\/site\/newsweek\/\" title=\"newsweek poll\" target=\"_blank\"><em>this Newsweek poll<\/em><\/a>. Among its findings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nearly half of all Americans believe that evolution is not well supported by evidence and is not widely accepted within the scientific community (despite <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Level_of_support_for_evolution#Voting.2C_resolutions_and_statements_of_scientists_before_1985\" title=\"scientific support\" target=\"_blank\">numerous expressions of scientific support<\/a> from Nobel Prize winners, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the United States National Academy of Science, the American Geological Institute, and many others)<\/li>\n<li>The same percentage (and nearly three-quarters of evangelical protestants) believe God created humans in their present form within the past 10,000 years (in other words, they were created more recently than many known human artifacts &#8212; I mean, even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,243607,00.html?sPage=fnc.science\/archaeology\" title=\"archaeology story\" target=\"_blank\">freaking Fox News acknowledges that<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To accommodate this kind of information I&#8217;ve added the a new blog category called &#8220;sigh.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/strangemaps.wordpress.com\/2007\/04\/03\/97-%e2%80%93-where-and-how-evolution-is-taught-in-the-us\/\" title=\"how evolution taught\" target=\"_blank\">Where (and How) Evolution is Taught in the U.S.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not much sign of it in this Newsweek poll. Among its findings: Nearly half of all Americans believe that evolution is not well supported by evidence and is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[9,39,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}