{"id":3784,"date":"2008-04-14T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/04\/quote-of-the-day-jeffrey-kluger\/"},"modified":"2008-04-14T15:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-14T15:10:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-jeffrey-kluger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/04\/quote-of-the-day-jeffrey-kluger.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day (Jeffrey Kluger)"},"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 align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#660000\">\u201cStein employs the common dodge of enumerating all the admittedly unanswered questions in evolutionary theory and using this to refute the whole idea. But all scientific knowledge is built this way. A fishnet is made up of a lot more holes than strings, but you can\u2019t therefore argue that the net doesn\u2019t exist. Just ask the fish\u201d<\/span> (Jeffrey Kluger, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,1729703,00.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ben Stein Dukes it Out with Darwin<\/a>\u201c, <em>TIME <\/em>magazine, Thursday, Apr. 10, 2008).<\/div>\n<p>HT <a href=\"http:\/\/pandasthumb.org\/archives\/2008\/04\/time-magazine-r.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Panda\u2019s Thumb<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-5372758115338231608?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cStein employs the common dodge of enumerating all the admittedly unanswered questions in evolutionary theory and using this to refute the whole idea. But all scientific knowledge is built this way. A fishnet is made up of a lot more holes than strings, but you can\u2019t therefore argue that the net doesn\u2019t exist. Just ask [&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-3784","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>Quote of the Day (Jeffrey Kluger)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;Stein employs the common dodge of enumerating all the admittedly unanswered questions in evolutionary theory and using this to refute the whole idea. 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