{"id":371,"date":"2005-05-25T15:13:20","date_gmt":"2005-05-25T20:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=371"},"modified":"2007-11-09T10:23:07","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T15:23:07","slug":"snarky-evolutionist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=371","title":{"rendered":"Snarky evolutionist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientist and populizer of evolutionary theory Richard Dawkins has a delightfully snarky take on &#8220;intelligent design&#8221; in the London Times for May 21, 2005.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a way to refute your creationist friends, Dawkins points out a common logical fallacy used by creationists:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If the scientist fails to give an immediate and comprehensive answer, a default conclusion is drawn: &#8220;Right, then, the alternative theory; &#8216;intelligent design&#8217; wins by default.&#8221; Notice the biased logic: if theory A fails in some particular, theory B must be right.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientist and populizer of evolutionary theory Richard Dawkins has a delightfully snarky take on &#8220;intelligent design&#8221; in the London Times for May 21, 2005. If you&#8217;re looking for a way to refute your creationist friends, Dawkins points out a common logical fallacy used by creationists: If the scientist fails to give an immediate and comprehensive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[146,210],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-culture","tag-evolution","tag-richard-dawkins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}