{"id":4110,"date":"2007-11-14T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T11:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/11\/quote-of-the-day-n-b\/"},"modified":"2007-11-14T11:57:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T11:57:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-n-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/11\/quote-of-the-day-n-b.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day (N.B.)"},"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\">\u201cI wonder what Mr. Rogers, Elmo, and the Teletubbies have to say about PBS\u2019s leftist atheist agenda?\u201d<\/span> (N.B., an anonymous blogger)<\/div>\n<p>I\u2019ve been made aware of a new <a href=\"http:\/\/secundumartem.blogspot.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">blog<\/a> belonging to a pharmacy student, and he had this great quote in response to the Discovery Institute\u2019s accusation that PBS had \u201cturned to the usual suspects\u201d to promote their \u201cagenda\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>If the usual suspects are a basis for judging, their agenda is to educate people with information from credible sources. If only all media had such an agenda. If only young earth creationists and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pandasthumb.org\/archives\/2005\/11\/missing_link_cd.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">cdesign proponentsists<\/a> had that agenda. (By the way, I am determined to keep calling them that from now on. If it gets old, let me know).<\/p>\n<p>On both <a href=\"http:\/\/pandasthumb.org\/archives\/2007\/11\/the-morning-aft.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Panda\u2019s Thumb<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/scienceblogs\/pharyngula\/~3\/184724931\/the_morning_after_judgment_day.php\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pharyngula<\/a>, P. Z. Myers has drawn attention to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evolutionnews.org\/2007\/11\/pbs_airs_its_inherit_the_wind.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Discovery Institute\u2019s response<\/a> to the documentary, and notes that it <em>doesn\u2019t address the charges that were at issue in the Dover case<\/em>, and thus in the documentary. Very few of its complaints about minor details, even if they happened to be correct (at least some of them clearly are not), would affect the substance of the issues about either the Dover trial, the evidence for evolution, or the status of intelligent design.<\/p>\n<p>Let me give <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Behe#Dover_testimony\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Michael Behe<\/a> the benefit of the doubt for the moment and treat intelligent design as science in the same sense that astrology is: the formulation of theoretical explanatory frameworks positing causal connections between seen and unseen forces. On this account, intelligent design is (as Philip Kitcher has suggested) \u201cold science\u201d rather than \u201cnon-science\u201d. Even if one were to grant this, then it would still be a pre-Darwinian model that has been supplanted by the evidence. And when someone tries to forcibly resurrect an older scientific model because they don\u2019t like the supposed implications of a current one, with no actual scientific evidence to justify such a resurrection, then the \u201cold science\u201d in question clearly moves back into the <em>non-science<\/em> category.<\/p>\n<p>Returning to the quote of the day, to be fair, let me end by noting that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/US\/05\/15\/falwell.legacy\/index.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">this isn\u2019t the first time the Teletubbies have been accused of having an agenda<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-7597261201873365244?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI wonder what Mr. Rogers, Elmo, and the Teletubbies have to say about PBS\u2019s leftist atheist agenda?\u201d (N.B., an anonymous blogger) I\u2019ve been made aware of a new blog belonging to a pharmacy student, and he had this great quote in response to the Discovery Institute\u2019s accusation that PBS had \u201cturned to the usual suspects\u201d [&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-4110","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 (N.B.)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;I wonder what Mr. Rogers, Elmo, and the Teletubbies have to say about PBS&#039;s leftist atheist agenda?&quot; (N.B., an anonymous blogger)I&#039;ve been made aware of\" \/>\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\/2007\/11\/quote-of-the-day-n-b.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Quote of the Day (N.B.)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&quot;I wonder what Mr. Rogers, Elmo, and the Teletubbies have to say about PBS&#039;s leftist atheist agenda?&quot; (N.B., an anonymous blogger)I&#039;ve been made aware of\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/11\/quote-of-the-day-n-b.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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