{"id":69,"date":"2008-07-31T09:22:02","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T13:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/?p=69"},"modified":"2022-04-11T23:51:33","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T03:51:33","slug":"can-creationism-go-on-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/2008\/07\/can-creationism-go-on-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Creationism Go on Forever?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright alignnone size-medium wp-image-70\" style=\"margin: 10px; float: right;\" title=\"The Devil in Dover\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/1693cover.jpg\" alt=\"The Devil in Dover\" width=\"152\" height=\"231\" \/><em>AlterNet<\/em> has just posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/rights\/93188\/despite_overwhelming_evidence%2C_creationists_cling_to_unreality\/?page=entire\">a review I did<\/a> of Lauri Lebo&#8217;s <em>The Devil in Dover<\/em>, an account of the 2005 evolution trial in Dover, Pennsylvania. It was a real treat to do the article, since I wrote <a href=\"\/papers\/CosmogonicTheater.pdf\">my college thesis<\/a> on the Dover trial while it was going on.<\/p>\n<p>As another round of my usual spats with editors about titles, I&#8217;m not at all comfortable with the title <em>AlterNet<\/em> used, &#8220;Despite Overwhelming Evidence, Creationists Cling to Unreality.&#8221; In my thesis and in my review, I have tried to operate under the assumption that creationism <em>feels<\/em> like a reality, replete with evidence, to those who adhere to it. I only feel silly claiming that my reality, which they have yet to accede to, is the one with a capital R. All I claim in the article is that the scientific consensus is evolutionist, and that&#8217;s what we should teach in science classrooms. Making metaphysical claims isn&#8217;t the point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright alignnone size-medium wp-image-70\" style=\"margin: 10px; float: right;\" title=\"The Devil in Dover\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/1693cover.jpg\" alt=\"The Devil in Dover\" width=\"152\" height=\"231\" \/><em>AlterNet<\/em> has just posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/rights\/93188\/despite_overwhelming_evidence%2C_creationists_cling_to_unreality\/?page=entire\">a review I did<\/a> of Lauri Lebo&#8217;s <em>The Devil in Dover<\/em>, an account of the 2005 evolution trial in Dover, Pennsylvania. It was a real treat to do the article, since I wrote <a href=\"\/papers\/CosmogonicTheater.pdf\">my college thesis<\/a> on the Dover trial while it was going on.<\/p>\n<p>As another round of my usual spats with editors about titles, I&#8217;m not at all comfortable with the title <em>AlterNet<\/em> used, &#8220;Despite Overwhelming Evidence, Creationists Cling to Unreality.&#8221; In my thesis and in my review, I have tried to operate under the assumption that creationism <em>feels<\/em> like a reality, replete with evidence, to those who adhere to it. I only feel silly claiming that my reality, which they have yet to accede to, is the one with a capital R. All I claim in the article is that the scientific consensus is evolutionist, and that&#8217;s what we should teach in science classrooms. I have no intention of preaching metaphysics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[38,52,55,16],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-books","tag-evolution","tag-language","tag-religion-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5803,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/5803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}