{"id":21043,"date":"2014-01-27T14:22:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T19:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=21043"},"modified":"2014-01-27T14:22:11","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T19:22:11","slug":"enormous-in-significance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/01\/enormous-in-significance.html","title":{"rendered":"Enormous In Significance"},"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>I came across an image on Reddit, and decided to make a different version of it. The original and the altered version are shared below. I would be interested to hear whether readers think one or the other (or perhaps both) follows from the logic presented. I think this gets at the heart of the question of how scientific data is incorporated into a worldview \u2013 and the important fact that what is often claimed as the implication of science is not always self-evidently so.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/01\/Enormously-insignificant.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21044\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/01\/Enormously-insignificant.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"630\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/01\/Enormously-significant.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21045\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/01\/Enormously-significant.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"630\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across an image on Reddit, and decided to make a different version of it. 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