{"id":18124,"date":"2013-10-08T17:18:20","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T21:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=18124"},"modified":"2013-10-08T17:18:20","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T21:18:20","slug":"contesting-faith-truth-and-religious-language-at-the-creation-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/10\/contesting-faith-truth-and-religious-language-at-the-creation-museum.html","title":{"rendered":"Contesting Faith, Truth, and Religious Language at the Creation Museum"},"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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/files\/2013\/10\/heges1-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"554\" height=\"717\"><\/p>\n<p>As the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/2013\/10\/08\/brent-hege-on-science-and-faith-at-the-creation-museum\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Butler STS blog<\/a> mentioned today, my colleague Brent Hege will be giving a brown bag lunchtime talk about the Creation Museum tomorrow. 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