{"id":3860,"date":"2008-03-13T11:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/03\/quote-of-the-day-richard-g-colling\/"},"modified":"2008-03-13T11:26:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T11:26:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-richard-g-colling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/03\/quote-of-the-day-richard-g-colling.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day (Richard G. Colling)"},"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\">\u201cUnless we are actively looking or listening for something, there is a real and distinct possibility it will simply fail to reach our conscious awareness, at least not at the levels that are desired\u201d<\/span> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighereducation.com\/layout\/set\/print\/news\/2007\/12\/10\/evolution\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Richard G. Colling<\/a>, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomdesigner.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Random Designer<\/a>: Created from Chaos to Connect with the Creator<\/i> (Bourbonnais, IL: Browning, 2004).<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-4491194592588614226?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cUnless we are actively looking or listening for something, there is a real and distinct possibility it will simply fail to reach our conscious awareness, at least not at the levels that are desired\u201d (Richard G. 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