{"id":1433,"date":"2011-08-18T16:30:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T20:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2011-08-18T16:30:34","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T20:30:34","slug":"god-and-the-evolution-song-vs-rick-perry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/08\/god-and-the-evolution-song-vs-rick-perry.html","title":{"rendered":"God and the Evolution Song vs. Rick Perry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Rick Perry offers unimpressive \u201canswers\u201d to a child\u2019s questions to him about the age of the earth and evolution<\/a>. I bet that the child could answer them! (HT Jim West<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/iframe>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sandwalk.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/evolution-is-fact-and-theory.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Larry Moran shared his explanation of why evolution is a fact and a theory<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/augustiniandemocrat.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/evolutions-vs-creationism-song.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Irenicum shared the evolution vs. creationism song<\/a>:<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ajULH6dNihI\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ajULH6dNihI<\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/tomverenna.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/18\/most-republicans-are-creationists-and-climate-change-deniers-why\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">See too Tom Verenna\u2019s post on creationism and climate change denial<\/a>. And finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesusneedsnewpr.net\/church-sign-of-the-day-40\/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+JesusNeedsNewPr+%28JESUS+NEEDS+NEW+PR%3A+The+blog+of+author+Matthew+Paul+Turner%29&utm_content=Google+Reader\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jesus Needs New PR shared this church sign<\/a> \u2013 can anyone find out if it is real?<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jesusneedsnewpr.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/376261647.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"389\" height=\"327\"><\/p>\nElsewhere <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allanbevere.com\/2011\/08\/galileo-galilei-on-science-and.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">in the blogosphere on related subjects<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/rachelheldevans.com\/ask-an-evolutionary-creationist?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+RachelHeldEvans+%28Rachel+Held+Evans+-+Blog%29&utm_content=Google+Reader\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rachel Held Evans has Dennis Vennema answering questions on her blog<\/a>, while <a href=\"http:\/\/biologos.org\/blog\/from-intelligent-design-to-biologos-part-4-reading-behe\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Vennema has been telling his own story on BioLogos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rick Perry offers unimpressive \u201canswers\u201d to a child\u2019s questions to him about the age of the earth and evolution. I bet that the child could answer them! (HT Jim West) Larry Moran shared his explanation of why evolution is a fact and a theory. Irenicum shared the evolution vs. creationism song: See too Tom Verenna\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,42,148,108],"tags":[425,2269,2272,2970,3217,3573,4005,4871,6132,6147,10169,10376,10886,12425,13374],"class_list":["post-1433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution-science","category-humor","category-intelligent-design-pseudoscience","category-young-earth-creationism","tag-age-of-the-earth","tag-creation","tag-creationism","tag-education","tag-evolution-science","tag-francis-collins","tag-god","tag-humor","tag-ken-miller","tag-kent-hovind","tag-religion","tag-rick-perry","tag-science","tag-texas","tag-video"],"yoast_head":"\n<title>God and the Evolution Song vs. Rick Perry<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Rick Perry offers unimpressive "answers" to a child's questions to him about the age of the earth and evolution. 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