{"id":575,"date":"2010-12-20T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/12\/merry-kitzmas\/"},"modified":"2010-12-20T16:03:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T16:03:00","slug":"merry-kitzmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/12\/merry-kitzmas.html","title":{"rendered":"Merry Kitzmas!"},"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 class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_BQtYCYJpONQ\/TQ9F7Vk68tI\/AAAAAAAAE9o\/9qZR8wrw_os\/s400\/Darwin+Xmas.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"182\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_BQtYCYJpONQ\/TQ9F7Vk68tI\/AAAAAAAAE9o\/9qZR8wrw_os\/s200\/Darwin+Xmas.jpg\" width=\"200\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sensuouscurmudgeon.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/17\/kitzmas-news-from-dover\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Several<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/dododreams.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/merry-kitzmas.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+ThoughtsInAHaystack+(Thoughts+in+a+Haystack)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">bloggers<\/a> have drawn attention to the fact that it was 5 years ago today that Judge Jones handed down his verdict in the Dover trial regarding Intelligent Design. Among those who have posted is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/dispatches\/laurilebo\/3941\/merry_kitzmas!_marking_an_evolutionary_victory\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Lauri Lebo<\/a>, who covered the trial and wrote a book about it,\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Devil-Dover-Insiders-Small-Town-America\/dp\/159558451X?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;link_code=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Devil in Dover: An Insider\u2019s Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-Town America<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=159558451X\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important;padding: 0px !important\" width=\"1\"><\/i>. Others include <a href=\"http:\/\/pandasthumb.org\/archives\/2010\/12\/merry-kitzmas-5.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Panda\u2019s Thumb<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/20\/dover-day\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Why Evolution is True<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What a great Christmas gift Christians like Judge Jones and Ken Miller gave to the people of Dover and the nation that Christmas season: defense of high quality science education. It is unfortunate that such a wonderful gift is sometimes not appreciated.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-1853775265738043326?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several bloggers have drawn attention to the fact that it was 5 years ago today that Judge Jones handed down his verdict in the Dover trial regarding Intelligent Design. Among those who have posted is Lauri Lebo, who covered the trial and wrote a book about it,\u00a0The Devil in Dover: An Insider\u2019s Story of Dogma [&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-575","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>Merry Kitzmas!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Several bloggers have drawn attention to the fact that it was 5 years ago today that Judge Jones handed down his verdict in the Dover trial regarding\" \/>\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\/2010\/12\/merry-kitzmas.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Merry Kitzmas!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Several bloggers have drawn attention to the fact that it was 5 years ago today that Judge Jones handed down his verdict in the Dover trial regarding\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/12\/merry-kitzmas.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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