{"id":35276,"date":"2016-07-27T06:18:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T10:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=35276"},"modified":"2016-07-23T15:20:39","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T19:20:39","slug":"transitional-species-looking-in-the-wrong-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2016\/07\/transitional-species-looking-in-the-wrong-place.html","title":{"rendered":"Transitional Species (Looking in the Wrong Place)"},"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-35277\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2016\/07\/Transitional-Species.jpg\" alt=\"Transitional Species\" width=\"786\" height=\"589\"><\/p>\n<p>It is fascinating how much misunderstanding there is about transitional species, in particular among those who criticize science without knowing what they are talking about. 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