{"id":428,"date":"2011-01-20T11:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T11:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/01\/quote-of-the-day-steven-newton\/"},"modified":"2011-01-20T11:27:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T11:27:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-steven-newton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/01\/quote-of-the-day-steven-newton.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day (Steven Newton)"},"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 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #660000;font-size: large\">\u201cIf there were credible scientific evidence against evolution, scientists would be the first to discover it, the first to publish it in peer-reviewed journals, and the first to debate its validity and importance. After all, discovering credible scientific evidence against evolution would be a revolutionary accomplishment, worthy of a Nobel Prize. That\u2019s why accusations from creationists and intelligent design advocates that scientists are conspiring to suppress evidence against evolution are, to put it mildly, silly.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right\">\u2014 Steven Newton, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Commentary\/Opinion\/2011\/0119\/Creationists-have-gotten-clever-but-there-s-still-no-debate-over-evolution\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Creationists have gotten clever, but there\u2019s still no debate over evolution<\/a>\u201d <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right\">\u00a0 in <em>The Christian Science Monitor<\/em><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-5464803066410818989?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf there were credible scientific evidence against evolution, scientists would be the first to discover it, the first to publish it in peer-reviewed journals, and the first to debate its validity and importance. 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