{"id":3472,"date":"2008-09-15T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T10:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/09\/cleesing-determinism\/"},"modified":"2008-09-15T10:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T10:35:00","slug":"cleesing-determinism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/09\/cleesing-determinism.html","title":{"rendered":"Cleesing Determinism"},"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>Evolving Thoughts shared this wonderful clip under the heading \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/evolvingthoughts\/2008\/09\/cleesing_the_god_gene.php\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cleesing the God Gene<\/a>\u201c:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<\/p><p>Elsewhere around the blogosphere, New Scientist has an article on the possibility that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/channel\/life\/dn14726-did-evolution-come-before-life.html?feedId=online-news_rss20\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">evolution may have preceded life<\/a>. Undeception has an interesting post on \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/undeception.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/14\/first-things-and-last-things\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">First Things and Last Things<\/a>\u201c. And Peter Rollins talks about <a href=\"http:\/\/peterrollins.net\/blog\/?p=74\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">our desire for a master we can dominate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-6529402943735411389?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evolving Thoughts shared this wonderful clip under the heading \u201cCleesing the God Gene\u201c: Elsewhere around the blogosphere, New Scientist has an article on the possibility that evolution may have preceded life. Undeception has an interesting post on \u201cFirst Things and Last Things\u201c. And Peter Rollins talks about our desire for a master we can dominate.<\/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-3472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cleesing Determinism<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Evolving Thoughts shared this wonderful clip under the heading &quot;Cleesing the God Gene&quot;:Elsewhere around the blogosphere, New Scientist has an article on\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/09\/cleesing-determinism.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cleesing Determinism\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Evolving Thoughts shared this wonderful clip under the heading &quot;Cleesing the God Gene&quot;:Elsewhere around the blogosphere, New Scientist has an article on\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/09\/cleesing-determinism.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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