{"id":536,"date":"2008-09-08T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T11:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/epiphenom\/2008\/09\/science-is-just-another-religion.html"},"modified":"2008-09-08T11:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T11:40:00","slug":"science-is-just-another-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/epiphenom\/2008\/09\/science-is-just-another-religion.html","title":{"rendered":"Science is just another religion&#8230;"},"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>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/node\/85766\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Onion<\/a> finally has the evidence to prove it! Apparently True Believers in the Theory of Evolution have been flocking to a courthouse in Tennessee, where a vision of Charles Darwin has appeared on the wall. One pilgrim captured the spirit and emotion particularly well:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cForgive me, O Charles, for ever doubting your Divine Evolution. After seeing this miracle of limestone pigmentation with my own eyes, my faith in empirical reasoning will never again be tested.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Inevitably, there are sceptics:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s a stain on a wall, and nothing more,\u201d said the Rev. Clement McCoy, a professor at Oral Roberts University and prominent opponent of evolutionary theory<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But if a miracle like this doesn\u2019t prove evolution, then what does?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And The Onion finally has the evidence to prove it! 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