{"id":7463,"date":"2012-09-09T07:47:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T12:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=7463"},"modified":"2017-02-27T19:32:45","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T00:32:45","slug":"one-aspect-of-creationism-has-actually-enhanced-our-scientific-understanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=7463","title":{"rendered":"One aspect of Creationism has actually enhanced our scientific understanding&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/books\/science\/6301\/\">geology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/images\/managed\/montgomerybook_302.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Question:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You have this great phrase, you say that creationists are &#8220;one of the most recently evolved species&#8221; of Christian. What do you mean by this?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Answer: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Well the creationists have chosen to go back to a literal interpretation of the flood story, using arguments that were recognized and rejected in the 1780s. Throughout that time, there was a whole other tradition of faith in the world around us, a belief that God didn&#8217;t create an incomprehensible universe. And they&#8217;ve just walked away from that. It&#8217;s bad theology dressed as science. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;of geology. Question: You have this great phrase, you say that creationists are &#8220;one of the most recently evolved species&#8221; of Christian. What do&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7463"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20156,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463\/revisions\/20156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}