{"id":2980,"date":"2010-01-12T09:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T09:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/01\/colbert-settles-the-science-faith-conflict\/"},"modified":"2010-01-12T09:14:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T09:14:00","slug":"colbert-settles-the-science-faith-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/01\/colbert-settles-the-science-faith-conflict.html","title":{"rendered":"Colbert Settles The Science-Faith Conflict"},"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><table style=\"font:11px arial;color:#333;background-color:#f5f5f5\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"360\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"background-color:#e5e5e5\" valign=\"middle\">\n<td style=\"padding:2px 1px 0px 5px\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Colbert Report<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:2px 5px 0px 5px;text-align:right;font-weight:bold\">Mon \u2013 Thurs 11:30pm \/ 10:30c<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height:14px\" valign=\"middle\">\n<td style=\"padding:2px 1px 0px 5px\" colspan=\"2\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/the-colbert-report-videos\/181231\/november-28-2005\/stephen-settles-the-debate---science-vs--faith\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Stephen Settles the Debate \u2013 Science vs. Faith<\/a><a class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height:14px;background-color:#353535\" valign=\"middle\">\n<td colspan=\"2\" style=\"padding:2px 5px 0px 5px;width:360px;overflow:hidden;text-align:right\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.colbertnation.com<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"middle\">\n<td style=\"padding:0px\" colspan=\"2\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height:18px\" valign=\"middle\">\n<td style=\"padding:0px\" colspan=\"2\">\n<table style=\"margin:0px;text-align:center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr valign=\"middle\">\n<td style=\"padding:3px;width:33%\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/colbertreport\/full-episodes\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Colbert Report Full Episodes<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:3px;width:33%\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indecisionforever.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Political Humor<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:3px;width:33%\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/the-colbert-report-videos\/258566\/december-15-2009\/prescott-financial-sells-gold--women---sheep\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Economy<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>HT <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/2010\/01\/colbert-settles-the-science-vs-faith-debate.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Witherington<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-6841171223124290428?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colbert Report Mon \u2013 Thurs 11:30pm \/ 10:30c Stephen Settles the Debate \u2013 Science vs. Faith www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Economy HT Ben Witherington<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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