{"id":2779,"date":"2010-11-18T11:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T11:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/11\/evangelicals-and-evolution\/"},"modified":"2010-11-18T11:24:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T11:24:00","slug":"evangelicals-and-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/11\/evangelicals-and-evolution.html","title":{"rendered":"Evangelicals and 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>At <a href=\"http:\/\/biologos.org\/blog\/an-evangelical-geneticists-critique-of-reasons-to-believe-pt-2\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">BioLogos<\/a>, Evangelical biologist Dennis Vennema continues to present evidence for common ancestry.<\/p>\n<p>At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/jesuscreed\/2010\/11\/18\/the-age-to-come-new-creation-after-darwin-rjs\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PatheosJesusCreed+%28Jesus+Creed%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Jesus Creed<\/a>, the series on the implications of modern science (including but not limited to evolution) for Christian theology continues.<\/p>\n<p>At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/dispatches\/laurilebo\/3745\/louisiana_panel_votes_in_favor_of_science_textbooks_\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Religion Dispatches<\/a>, Lauri Lebo reports on the attack on science textbooks in Louisiana.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-2078055136036500394?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At BioLogos, Evangelical biologist Dennis Vennema continues to present evidence for common ancestry. 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