{"id":335,"date":"2011-02-21T22:29:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/02\/michael-zimmerman-on-the-good-the-bad-and-the-intelligently-designed\/"},"modified":"2011-02-21T22:29:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T22:29:00","slug":"michael-zimmerman-on-the-good-the-bad-and-the-intelligently-designed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/02\/michael-zimmerman-on-the-good-the-bad-and-the-intelligently-designed.html","title":{"rendered":"Michael Zimmerman on the Good, the Bad, and the Intelligently Designed"},"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 style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biologos.org\/uploads\/static-content\/michael_zimmerman.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/biologos.org\/uploads\/static-content\/michael_zimmerman.jpg\" width=\"119\"><\/a>Michael Zimmerman has two new pieces on\u00a0his <em>Huffington Post <\/em>blog. <\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/michael-zimmerman\/profiles-in-evolutionary-_b_825770.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The first is part four in his series \u201cProfiles in Evolutionary Courage\u201d<\/a> \u2013 in this case, focusing on Zack Kopplin, the Louisiana high school student who has started a grass roots campaign to defend science education in his state and overturn a law aimed at giving pseudoscience a foot in the door. <\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none\">The second is about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/michael-zimmerman\/creationism-in-texas-a-bi_b_825439.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">good and bad news related to creationism in Texas<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-1549714043573558192?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Zimmerman has two new pieces on\u00a0his Huffington Post blog. 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