{"id":25245,"date":"2014-07-20T14:05:52","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T18:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=25245"},"modified":"2014-07-20T14:05:52","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T18:05:52","slug":"trust-in-god-and-in-the-human-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/07\/trust-in-god-and-in-the-human-mind.html","title":{"rendered":"Trust in God and in the Human Mind"},"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><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/07\/wpid-Photo-20140720140548.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/07\/wpid-Photo-20140720140548.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I recently came across this meme image with a quote from Ken Miller.<\/p>\n<p>I also saw that <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/19\/catholic-biologist-ken-miller-talks-about-god-and-evolution\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jerry Coyne<\/a>\u00a0(blogging about an interview Miller gave) is once again struggling to grasp the basic idea that not all people have the same ideas about God and theology. Of course, I am not sure that he <em>wants<\/em> to understand, and I suspect that his blogging on the subject is just an expression of frustration about the fact that he cannot simply dismiss <em>one <\/em>viewpoint and then sit back having \u201cdealt with religion\u201d once and for all.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently came across this meme image with a quote from Ken Miller. I also saw that Jerry Coyne\u00a0(blogging about an interview Miller gave) is once again struggling to grasp the basic idea that not all people have the same ideas about God and theology. 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