{"id":23352,"date":"2014-05-01T08:16:52","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T12:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=23352"},"modified":"2014-05-01T08:16:52","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T12:16:52","slug":"debate-movie-debate-avoidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/05\/debate-movie-debate-avoidance.html","title":{"rendered":"Debate Movie Debate Avoidance"},"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:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tZ6bUfOVf1g\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tZ6bUfOVf1g<\/a>\n<\/p><p>The above YouTube video is for an upcoming Christian movie (HT <a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2014\/04\/29\/the-guys-an-evolutionist-and-theres-nothing-in-the-whole-course-description-about-biblical-creation-as-even-a-plausible-alternative\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">PZ Myers<\/a>). It was shared by Answers in Genesis on YouTube, who will not allow ratings or comments. It is a movie about a parent challenging a biology professor to a debate about evolution, which really ought to end badly for the parent if the movie is realistic, or better still, result in the parent realizing that his and his daughter's faith do not depend on denying what biologists have to say. Instead, it looks like it will depict something unrealistic, and try to avoid anyone hearing criticisms of it. Ironic, isn't it?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The above YouTube video is for an upcoming Christian movie (HT PZ Myers). It was shared by Answers in Genesis on YouTube, who will not allow ratings or comments. 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