{"id":386,"date":"2007-07-26T10:53:26","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T16:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=386"},"modified":"2007-07-26T10:53:26","modified_gmt":"2007-07-26T16:53:26","slug":"the-creationists-strike-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"The Creationists Strike Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badastronomy.com\/bablog\/2007\/07\/25\/texas-doomed\/#more-1584\">proud<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Via the DefCon blog comes that news that Texas governor Rick Perry has appointed a creationist to head the Texas State Board of Education.<\/p>\n<p>..<\/p>\n<p>Here is a letter McLeroy sent out to his fellow State Board of Education members:<\/p>\n<p>My Personal Confession<\/p>\n<p>Given all the time in the world, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think I could make a spider out of a rock. However, most of the books we are considering adopting, claim that Nothing made a spider out of a rock.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think I share a common ancestor with a tree. However, most of the books we are considering adopting, claim as a fact that we all share a common ancestor with a tree.<\/p>\n<p>Brilliant! This guy doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t understand the most basic principles of biology, and he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to chair the State Board of Education. And hey, if he doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t understand something, why should it be taught at all?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Time to homeschool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m so proud: Via the DefCon blog comes that news that Texas governor Rick Perry has appointed a creationist to head the Texas State Board of Education. .. Here is a letter McLeroy sent out to his fellow State Board of Education members: My Personal Confession Given all the time in the world, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=386\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Creationists Strike Again<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-6e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}