{"id":253,"date":"2003-10-27T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-27T10:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m3ntalcontraband.com\/?p=253"},"modified":"2020-11-15T16:12:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T21:12:20","slug":"darwinism_on_trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/?p=253","title":{"rendered":"darwinism on trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-paragraph\"><b>current selection<\/b> | dusted \u2013 <i>deeper river<\/i><br><b>feelin\u2019<\/b> | <i>wide awake<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\">i watched movies yesterday. and then i ate food. yeah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\">quite the exciting sunday. anyhoo\u2026statistics still show many americans are stupid creationism believers. i was kinda miffed that i didnt see (m)any scientific evolutionists retort with their own articles just railing them in response. well, til today\u2026<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">scientific american<\/a> highlighted an article from their july issue with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?chanID=sa008&amp;articleID=000D4FEC-7D5B-1D07-8E49809EC588EEDF&amp;pageNumber=1&amp;catID=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">15 reasons why creationists can eat shit<\/a>. ok, their own title wasnt nearly as colorfully metaphorical, but it shouldve been. theres far too many bible-humping neo-creationists out there talking too much and convincing the general populace (who are dumb enough to believe their errored \u201cfacts\u201d) that evolution is in doubt. the article seems a bit more staid than i liked it to have been. while you get the impression that the writer occasionally fashioned the letter \u201cL\u201d on their forehead as they wrote the article, they seemed quite intent on keeping a straight face while discrediting many creationists\u2019 arguments. i think it wouldve been more interesting it they had sprinkled it with the occasional tirade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\"><b>if humans descended from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?<\/b><br><i>you are a fucking idiot. why don\u2019t you ask <a href=\"http:\/\/www.m3ntalcontraband.com\/journal\/archives\/000123.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">uncle steve?<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\">juvenile, yes. who cares?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\">on the other spectrum today, scientists have actually suggested that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&amp;articleID=0000E0A0-4928-1F98-892883414B7F0000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">life couldve risen from clay<\/a>! albeit not so much in a biblical \u201c<i>god molded man from play-doh<\/i>\u201c- type way, but more in the way that clay could in fact catalyze reactions to help in the formation of rna from nucleotides. its still enough however, to make religious butt holes say, \u201c<i>ha\u2026see!?<\/i>\u201d well shuck my corn and call me jebediah\u2026who wouldve guessed?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/evo2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/evo2.jpg 480w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/evo2-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/evo2-250x94.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\"><b>addendum<\/b><br>since mentioning the adventures of uncle steve\u2026i got curious again and did a bit of a google search on the crazy <a href=\"http:\/\/objective.jesussave.us\/creationsciencefair.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">baptist creation science fair<\/a>. all it took was one site stating that it was a parody to convince me. it was just too stupid\u2026even for creationists. the same site however pointed to an all too real site for the science of creationism\u2026the almighty <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">institute for creation research<\/a>. the acronym <b>icr<\/b> can also be used for other fun abbreviations such as <i>idiot creationists rock!<\/i>, <i>indignant cornish rugby<\/i>, and <i>instant castration, run!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>current selection | dusted \u2013 deeper riverfeelin\u2019 | wide awake i watched movies yesterday. and then i ate food. yeah. quite the exciting sunday. anyhoo\u2026statistics still show many americans are stupid creationism believers. i was kinda miffed that i didnt see (m)any scientific evolutionists retort with their own articles just railing them in response. well, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-r3ligion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8647,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/8647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}