{"id":27309,"date":"2014-11-26T13:17:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T18:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=27309"},"modified":"2014-11-26T13:17:16","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T18:17:16","slug":"arrogance-and-ignorance-are-an-unpleasant-combination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/11\/arrogance-and-ignorance-are-an-unpleasant-combination.html","title":{"rendered":"Arrogance and Ignorance are an Unpleasant Combination"},"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=32mxZxv3dYM\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=32mxZxv3dYM<\/a>\n<\/p><p>HT <a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2014\/11\/25\/smug-and-stupid\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pharyngula<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crocoduck.com\/2014\/11\/25\/creationist-audits-chicagos-field-museum-stupidity-ensues\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Crocoduck<\/a>, and also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/friendlyatheist\/2014\/11\/26\/creationist-mother-debunks-evolution-exhibit-at-chicagos-field-museum-heres-how-you-should-respond\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Hemant Mehta<\/a>, who has a practical way you can oppose Megan Fox\u2019s crusade for ignorance. The video is incredibly disturbing, an illustration of the willingness of an individual who doesn\u2019t even know how to pronounce words or their meaning to nonetheless make confident assertions about them, which is simply dishonest.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HT Pharyngula and Crocoduck, and also Hemant Mehta, who has a practical way you can oppose Megan Fox\u2019s crusade for ignorance. The video is incredibly disturbing, an illustration of the willingness of an individual who doesn\u2019t even know how to pronounce words or their meaning to nonetheless make confident assertions about them, which is simply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":21086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[3217,7229,7802,14019],"class_list":["post-27309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-young-earth-creationism","tag-evolution-science","tag-megan-fox","tag-museum","tag-young-earth-creationists"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Arrogance and Ignorance are an Unpleasant Combination<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"HT Pharyngula and Crocoduck, and also Hemant Mehta, who has a practical way you can oppose Megan Fox&#039;s crusade for ignorance. 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