{"id":4921,"date":"2011-12-07T16:12:45","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T21:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=4921"},"modified":"2011-12-07T16:12:45","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T21:12:45","slug":"why-we-still-have-to-take-creationism-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/12\/why-we-still-have-to-take-creationism-seriously.html","title":{"rendered":"Why We Still Have To Take Creationism Seriously"},"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><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why we still have to take creationism seriously\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NQcD40hv_Nc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p><p>Eugenie Scott of the National Center for Science Education gives a talk on why, even though creationism itself is not serious in any sort of scientific or academic sense, nevertheless as a phenomenon it is crucial that we take it seriously.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugenie Scott of the National Center for Science Education gives a talk on why, even though creationism itself is not serious in any sort of scientific or academic sense, nevertheless as a phenomenon it is crucial that we take it seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,137,148,78,85,108],"tags":[1200,2272,3217,4957,5273,7917,7964,10886],"class_list":["post-4921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-evolution-science","category-intelligent-design-pseudoscience","category-pseudoscience","category-science","category-young-earth-creationism","tag-biology","tag-creationism","tag-evolution-science","tag-id","tag-intelligent-design","tag-national-center-for-science-education","tag-ncse","tag-science"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why We Still Have To Take Creationism Seriously<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Eugenie Scott of the National Center for Science Education gives a talk on why, even though creationism itself is not serious in any sort of scientific or\" \/>\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\/2011\/12\/why-we-still-have-to-take-creationism-seriously.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why We Still Have To Take Creationism Seriously\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Eugenie Scott of the National Center for Science Education gives a talk on why, even though creationism itself is not serious in any sort of scientific or\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/12\/why-we-still-have-to-take-creationism-seriously.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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