Italian cardinal upholds science<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Science c. 1988 that is. I remember the date, because that is when I was in college at the Ohio State University main campus. And I remember\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2016\/01\/italian-cardinal-upholds-science.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Italian cardinal upholds science\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Science c. 1988 that is. I remember the date, because that is when I was in college at the Ohio State University main campus. And I remember\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2016\/01\/italian-cardinal-upholds-science.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Daffey Thoughts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-01-28T08:51:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Dave Griffey\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Dave Griffey\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2016\/01\/italian-cardinal-upholds-science.html\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2016\/01\/italian-cardinal-upholds-science.html\",\"name\":\"Italian cardinal upholds science\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2016-01-28T08:51:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-01-28T08:51:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/#\/schema\/person\/9de3f33a0818ebc53727444b649c82a7\"},\"description\":\"Science c. 1988 that is. I remember the date, because that is when I was in college at the Ohio State University main campus. And I remember\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2016\/01\/italian-cardinal-upholds-science.html#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2016\/01\/italian-cardinal-upholds-science.html\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2016\/01\/italian-cardinal-upholds-science.html#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Italian cardinal upholds science\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/\",\"name\":\"Daffey Thoughts\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/#\/schema\/person\/9de3f33a0818ebc53727444b649c82a7\",\"name\":\"Dave Griffey\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/546cf1ab64797c201cc8ad19185f2e57?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/546cf1ab64797c201cc8ad19185f2e57?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Dave Griffey\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/author\/dgriffey\"}]}<\/script>\n","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Italian cardinal upholds science","description":"Science c. 1988 that is. I remember the date, because that is when I was in college at the Ohio State University main campus. And I remember","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2016\/01\/italian-cardinal-upholds-science.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Italian cardinal upholds science","og_description":"Science c. 1988 that is. I remember the date, because that is when I was in college at the Ohio State University main campus. And I remember","og_url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2016\/01\/italian-cardinal-upholds-science.html","og_site_name":"Daffey Thoughts","article_published_time":"2016-01-28T08:51:00+00:00","author":"Dave Griffey","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Dave Griffey","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2016\/01\/italian-cardinal-upholds-science.html","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2016\/01\/italian-cardinal-upholds-science.html","name":"Italian cardinal upholds science","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/#website"},"datePublished":"2016-01-28T08:51:00+00:00","dateModified":"2016-01-28T08:51:00+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/#\/schema\/person\/9de3f33a0818ebc53727444b649c82a7"},"description":"Science c. 1988 that is. I remember the date, because that is when I was in college at the Ohio State University main campus. And I remember","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2016\/01\/italian-cardinal-upholds-science.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2016\/01\/italian-cardinal-upholds-science.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2016\/01\/italian-cardinal-upholds-science.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Italian cardinal upholds science"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/","name":"Daffey Thoughts","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/#\/schema\/person\/9de3f33a0818ebc53727444b649c82a7","name":"Dave Griffey","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/546cf1ab64797c201cc8ad19185f2e57?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/546cf1ab64797c201cc8ad19185f2e57?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","caption":"Dave Griffey"},"url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/author\/dgriffey"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2805"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

{"id":986,"date":"2016-01-28T08:51:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T08:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2016\/01\/italian-cardinal-upholds-science.html"},"modified":"2016-01-28T08:51:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T08:51:00","slug":"italian-cardinal-upholds-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2016\/01\/italian-cardinal-upholds-science.html","title":{"rendered":"Italian cardinal upholds science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

That\u2019s why we had things like Big Brothers and Big Sisters.\u00a0 It\u2019s why Bill Clinton made the whole Deadbeat Dad problem a federal issue.\u00a0 Not only was there the issue of responsibility.\u00a0 But it was for the sake of the kids!\u00a0 They needed that male and female presence;\u00a0a mother and father to use the archaic terminology<\/a>.\u00a0 Or at least the dads had to pay up if they weren\u2019t going to be around to provide that presence.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Of course today, we now know\u00a0the science, oddly enough, shows that kids need no such thing.\u00a0 Any combination of gender will do.\u00a0 Which reminds me of a newscast I watched some time ago about Transgender kids.\u00a0 Some of the parents being interviewed said they knew their kids were transgender as early as infancy.\u00a0 How did they know?\u00a0 Why, working with their doctors and therapists, it was concluded that the kiddos showed signs of gender relativity.\u00a0 What were those signs?\u00a0 Among other signs, things such as a young boy preferring a pink blanket, or playing with dolls at a young age.<\/p>\n

Strange, but in the 70s, when I was a kiddo myself, I remember being part of those grand experiments to show that pink and\u00a0blue and airplanes and dolls meant nothing at all.\u00a0 We only played with those because we had been artificially programed by a sexist, patriarchal society to think playing with this or preferring that color meant anything.\u00a0 That was, of course, the science of then.\u00a0 The science of now shows just how stupid those scientists were back in the day.<\/p>\n

There is Science, and then there is science.\u00a0 Science can say \u201cLook, gravity!\u00a0 The earth orbits the Sun!\u00a0 Photosynthesis!\u201d\u00a0 But I\u2019ve noticed there is this invisible line where the Science seems to stop, and starts acting more like science: a fusion of\u00a0political campaigns and an agenda driven opinion.\u00a0 And it always seems that the scientific facts of this science\u00a0just happen to align with the agendas of the latest, hippest who get invited to all the great parties.\u00a0 I can\u2019t help but think that it\u2019s a little bit beyond cosmic coincidence. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"