{"id":18951,"date":"2013-11-08T08:43:51","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T13:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=18951"},"modified":"2013-11-08T08:43:51","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T13:43:51","slug":"reasons-why-people-reject-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/11\/reasons-why-people-reject-evolution.html","title":{"rendered":"Why People Reject Evolution"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/11\/Why-People-Reject-Evolution-pie-chart-meme.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18952\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/11\/Why-People-Reject-Evolution-pie-chart-meme.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"453\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.godofevolution.com\/why-people-reject-evolution\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tyler Francke\u2019s God of Evolution blog<\/a>, where you will also find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.godofevolution.com\/the-top-10-signs-that-you-dont-understand-evolution-at-all\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the top ten signs that you don\u2019t understand evolution at all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Tyler Francke\u2019s God of Evolution blog, where you will also find the top ten signs that you don\u2019t understand evolution at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":18952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[1848,2454,2457,3217,7250,7513,9140,10886],"class_list":["post-18951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-evolution-science","tag-christians","tag-darwin","tag-darwinism","tag-evolution-science","tag-meme","tag-misconceptions","tag-pie-chart","tag-science"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why People Reject Evolution<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"From Tyler Francke&#039;s God of Evolution blog, where you will also find the top ten signs that you don&#039;t understand evolution at all.\" \/>\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\/2013\/11\/reasons-why-people-reject-evolution.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why People Reject Evolution\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From Tyler Francke&#039;s God of Evolution blog, where you will also find the top ten signs that you don&#039;t understand evolution at all.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/11\/reasons-why-people-reject-evolution.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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