{"id":732,"date":"2010-11-26T10:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T10:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/11\/biology-simply-means-evolution\/"},"modified":"2010-11-26T10:57:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T10:57:00","slug":"biology-simply-means-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/11\/biology-simply-means-evolution.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Biology Simply Means Evolution&#8221;"},"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>Via the <a href=\"http:\/\/ncse.com\/news\/2010\/11\/biology-simply-means-evolution-006309\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">NCSE<\/a>, I learned of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-scientist.com\/2010\/11\/1\/36\/1\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">an op-ed piece entitled \u201cThe Devolution of Evolution\u201d in <i>The Scientist<\/i><\/a>\u00a0which reiterates the fundamental importance of evolution as the unifying theory that allows us to make sense of diverse fields such as genetics, embryology, and paleontology, and to understand their relationship to one another.<\/p>\n<p>The author of the article, Leonid Moroz, writes that \u201cbiology simply means evolution.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>He also quotes Peter Medawar, who wrote \u201cThe alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-6601340532248302089?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via the NCSE, I learned of an op-ed piece entitled \u201cThe Devolution of Evolution\u201d in The Scientist\u00a0which reiterates the fundamental importance of evolution as the unifying theory that allows us to make sense of diverse fields such as genetics, embryology, and paleontology, and to understand their relationship to one another. 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