{"id":3512,"date":"2008-08-27T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/08\/blog-the-controversy\/"},"modified":"2008-08-27T12:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T12:57:00","slug":"blog-the-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/08\/blog-the-controversy.html","title":{"rendered":"Blog the Controversy"},"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>There may not be a genuine scientific dispute over evolution as such, but there certainly is dispute from those outside of the relevant natural science about <em>whether there is a dispute<\/em>. Here are just a few recent posts related to evolution on blogs I read:<\/p>\n<p>Jason Rosenhouse continues his coverage of the <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/evolutionblog\/2008\/08\/report_on_the_sixth_internatio_3.php\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sixth International Conference on Creationism<\/a>.<br>Mike the Mad Biologist asks if <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/mikethemadbiologist\/2008\/08\/is_molecular_evolution_a_good.php\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">molecular evolution is a good way to teach this subject to high school students<\/a>.<br>Mystical Seeker shares a personal experience of <a href=\"http:\/\/mysticalseeker.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/faith-and-science.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">faith and science<\/a>.<br>An Evangelical Dialogue on Evolution has <a href=\"http:\/\/evanevodialogue.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/evangelical-palaeontology-student.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a review by an Evangelical paleontology student of Lamoureux\u2019s <em>Evolutionary Creation<\/em><\/a>.<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacatholic.co.uk\/2008\/08\/jim-wests-truth-priorities-are-a-bit-odd\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Doug Chaplin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/notes-from-offcenter.com\/2008\/08\/26\/evolution-is-theory-not-doctrine\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Drew<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/evolutionmystery.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/defensive-about-evolution.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Wade G.<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/rdtwot.wordpress.com\/2008\/08\/26\/evolution-doesnt-much-matter\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Nick Norelli<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/jwest.wordpress.com\/2008\/08\/26\/if-its-not-a-doctrine-why-are-people-so-defensive\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jim West<\/a> continue our multi-blog conversation on this subject.<br>Science and Religion Today has <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceandreligiontoday.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/francisco-ayala-sees-no-real-s-conflict.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">several relevant posts<\/a>, including one on <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceandreligiontoday.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/orthodox-jews-can-embrace-science-torah.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Judaism, Torah and science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-8755578776030889581?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There may not be a genuine scientific dispute over evolution as such, but there certainly is dispute from those outside of the relevant natural science about whether there is a dispute. Here are just a few recent posts related to evolution on blogs I read: Jason Rosenhouse continues his coverage of the Sixth International Conference [&hellip;]<\/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-3512","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>Blog the Controversy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There may not be a genuine scientific dispute over evolution as such, but there certainly is dispute from those outside of the relevant natural science\" \/>\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\/08\/blog-the-controversy.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Blog the Controversy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There may not be a genuine scientific dispute over evolution as such, but there certainly is dispute from those outside of the relevant natural science\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/08\/blog-the-controversy.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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