{"id":951,"date":"2016-02-01T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2016\/02\/why-i-love-john-c-wright.html"},"modified":"2016-02-01T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T06:00:00","slug":"why-i-love-john-c-wright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2016\/02\/why-i-love-john-c-wright.html","title":{"rendered":"Why I love John C. Wright"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Because he says what I think, but better.\u00a0 In one of the churches I pastored, there was a fellow who taught college Calculus and Physics.\u00a0 He once said that it\u2019s the height of arrogance to assume there will only be one scientific revolution.\u00a0 Assuming Christ doesn\u2019t return in the next thousand years or so, there is no reason to think we won\u2019t have future revolutions that show\u00a090% of everything we think is scientific fact will turn out to be wrong.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifiwright.com\/2016\/01\/darwin-and-genesis\/#comments\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">In this piece<\/a>, Mr. Wright says the same thing, but with panache.\u00a0 Read it and enjoy!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because he says what I think, but better.\u00a0 In one of the churches I pastored, there was a fellow who taught college Calculus and Physics.\u00a0 He once said that it\u2019s the height of arrogance to assume there will only be one scientific revolution.\u00a0 Assuming Christ doesn\u2019t return in the next thousand years or so, there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why I love John C. 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