{"id":4457,"date":"2017-02-13T20:56:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T20:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=4457"},"modified":"2017-02-13T20:56:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T20:56:34","slug":"evolution-vs-intelligent-design-creationism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=4457","title":{"rendered":"Evolution vs. Intelligent Design (Creationism)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As an atheist, I find it difficult to be polite and not fall about laughing at things like &#8220;Intelligent Design&#8221;, but for the duration of this blog posting, I&#8217;ll try.<\/p>\n<p>On one side are the scientists who spend their working lives investigating biological processes who have their theory of evolution. Now that word &#8220;theory&#8221; needs a bit of explanation; it does not mean that evolution hasn&#8217;t been accepted as fact by scientists. Evolution is one of those rare scientific theories that has never been disproved; merely refined. Essentially the word &#8220;theory&#8221; here is a challenge to disprove evolution and come up with a better theory &#8211; if you think you&#8217;re hard enough!<\/p>\n<p>On the other side are a collection of religious leaders (admittedly <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Thaxton\">Charles Thaxton<\/a>\u00a0trained as a chemist) who have spent their working lives telling people about god; and coming up with the theory of &#8220;Intelligent Design&#8221; in their spare time. The suspicion is that these people are letting their religious beliefs influence their &#8220;scientific&#8221; thinking.<\/p>\n<p>When I want to know about plumbing, I ask a plumber. When I want to know about welding, I ask a boiler-maker. And when I want to know about biology, I ask a biologist.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4458\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/charles-darwin-as-an-ape-small.jpeg?resize=695%2C935&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"695\" height=\"935\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/charles-darwin-as-an-ape-small.jpeg?resize=761%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 761w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/charles-darwin-as-an-ape-small.jpeg?resize=223%2C300&amp;ssl=1 223w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/charles-darwin-as-an-ape-small.jpeg?resize=768%2C1034&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/charles-darwin-as-an-ape-small.jpeg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an atheist, I find it difficult to be polite and not fall about laughing at things like &#8220;Intelligent Design&#8221;, but for the duration of this blog posting, I&#8217;ll try. On one side are the scientists who spend their working lives investigating biological processes who have their theory of evolution. Now that word &#8220;theory&#8221; needs <a href='https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=4457' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[1495,515,1494],"class_list":["post-4457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","category-science","tag-creationalism","tag-evolution","tag-intelligent-design","category-10-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1f2KI-19T","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4459,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457\/revisions\/4459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}