{"id":6325,"date":"2017-06-26T12:27:36","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T16:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=6325"},"modified":"2017-06-26T12:27:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T16:27:36","slug":"upholding-creationism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=6325","title":{"rendered":"Upholding Creationism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.renewamerica.com\/columns\/castellitto\/170626\" target=\"_blank\">yahoo at <i>Renew America<\/i><\/a> exemplifies the resolute ignorance that genuinely devout Christianity demands.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The problem for biblically centered Christians is that the Bible, right in the very beginning, tells us clearly that God created all life forms with a simple &#8216;Let there be &#8230;&#8217; No common descent, natural selection, or billions of years required. So if Darwin was right, the Bible was wrong.'&#8221; &#8212; Peter Enns<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[ &#8230; ]<\/p>\n<p>What degree of arrogance must have this man, his supporters, and his enablers maintained to attempt such an assault on our religious foundations?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Right.  Tens of thousands of discrete observations, made by tens of thousands of discrete individuals, over the course of more than 150-years, at tens of thousands of discrete locations all over the earth, literally millions of fossils &#8230; all wrong, evidence of arrogance &#8212; that is, a character failure inhering in science.<\/p>\n<p>This man is never going to be brought into the light of reason.  He, and people like him, must be exposed for the morons that they are, and defeated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A yahoo at Renew America exemplifies the resolute ignorance that genuinely devout Christianity demands. &#8220;The problem for biblically centered Christians is that the Bible, right in the very beginning, tells us clearly that God created all life forms with a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=6325\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6325"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6329,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325\/revisions\/6329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}