{"id":28417,"date":"2015-02-12T12:27:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T17:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=28417"},"modified":"2015-02-12T12:27:31","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T17:27:31","slug":"happy-lincoln-and-darwin-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/02\/happy-lincoln-and-darwin-day.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy Lincoln and Darwin Day!"},"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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-28577\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2015\/02\/lincoln_darwin_day-copy.jpg\" alt=\"lincoln_darwin_day-copy\" width=\"634\" height=\"546\"><\/p>\n<p>Happy Abraham Lincoln\u2019s and Charles Darwin\u2019s Birthday! The image above comes from Newsweek via <a href=\"http:\/\/pigeonchess.com\/2015\/02\/12\/happy-lincoln-darwin-day\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Playing Chess With Pigeons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of related interest, don\u2019t miss <a href=\"http:\/\/biologos.org\/blog\/adam-eve-and-human-population-genetics-part-6-common-ancestry-nested-hierar\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dennis Vennema\u2019s series about Adam, Eve, and population genetics<\/a> on the BioLogos website.<\/p>\n<p>Also, remember about Evolution Weekend this coming weekend. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobcornwall.com\/2015\/01\/why-celebrate-evolution-sunday.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bob Cornwall<\/a> has shared a number of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobcornwall.com\/2015\/01\/god-is-continually-creating.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">posts<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobcornwall.com\/2015\/01\/beware-god-of-gaps-creation-and.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">videos<\/a> for the occasion. Another video for the occasion was circulated by Michael Zimmerman in a recent e-mail:<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dinosaur Sunday 2015 invitation: What are we?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bdJbwkLGwqc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Abraham Lincoln\u2019s and Charles Darwin\u2019s Birthday! The image above comes from Newsweek via Playing Chess With Pigeons. Of related interest, don\u2019t miss Dennis Vennema\u2019s series about Adam, Eve, and population genetics on the BioLogos website. Also, remember about Evolution Weekend this coming weekend. 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