{"id":1655,"date":"2010-02-10T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/02\/more-mythicist-creationist-parallels\/"},"modified":"2010-02-10T08:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T08:45:00","slug":"more-mythicist-creationist-parallels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/02\/more-mythicist-creationist-parallels.html","title":{"rendered":"More Mythicist-Creationist Parallels"},"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>It seems like each step of the conversation uncovers more.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mainstream scholars have published thousands of books and countless more peer-reviewed articles. I\u2019ve created a web page\/self-published a book. Therefore the\u00a0burden of proof is on you to disprove my views.<\/li>\n<li>If you\u2019ve read Ken Ham\/Robert Price\/William Dembski\u00a0and are not persuaded, you need to read Henry Morris\/Earl Doherty\/Michael Behe. How can you reject young-earth creationism\/mythicism\/intelligent design if you haven\u2019t even read all its proponents?<\/li>\n<li>Biological evolution is not proven to the same degree of certainty as equations in physics\/historical conclusions are less certain than ones in the natural sciences, therefore I don\u2019t actually have to address your evidence and arguments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And of course there\u2019s the prooftexting. Anyone want to point out still others?<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-2515558788295002983?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like each step of the conversation uncovers more. Mainstream scholars have published thousands of books and countless more peer-reviewed articles. I\u2019ve created a web page\/self-published a book. Therefore the\u00a0burden of proof is on you to disprove my views. If you\u2019ve read Ken Ham\/Robert Price\/William Dembski\u00a0and are not persuaded, you need to read Henry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1655","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>More Mythicist-Creationist Parallels<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It seems like each step of the conversation uncovers more.Mainstream scholars have published thousands of books and countless more peer-reviewed articles.\" \/>\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\/religionprof\/2010\/02\/more-mythicist-creationist-parallels.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"More Mythicist-Creationist Parallels\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It seems like each step of the conversation uncovers more.Mainstream scholars have published thousands of books and countless more peer-reviewed articles.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/02\/more-mythicist-creationist-parallels.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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