{"id":2456,"date":"2009-10-18T23:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T03:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2456"},"modified":"2009-10-18T23:51:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T03:51:00","slug":"dawkins-creationists-and-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2456","title":{"rendered":"Dawkins, Creationists, and books"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t think they [creationists] read books anyway, except for one book. It’s aimed at the intelligent layperson who does read books and who vaguely knows a little bit about evolution…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So says Richard Dawkins, author of The Greatest Show on Earth<\/a><\/em>, in a Salon interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hmmm. Let’s see.<\/p>\n

I’m a creationist (of the Old Earth variety) and, while I don’t consider myself well read, I have read The Origin of Species<\/a>, Finding Darwin’s God<\/a>, Tower of Babel<\/a>, Night Comes to the Cretaceous<\/a>, Rare Earth<\/a>, The Elegant Universe<\/a>, The Fabric of the Cosmos<\/a>, and A Brief History of Time<\/a>, just to name a few books from the non-creationist<\/em> book bin.<\/p>\n

It can’t be this easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t think they [creationists] read books anyway, except for one book. It’s aimed at the intelligent layperson who does read books and who vaguely knows a little bit about evolution… So says Richard Dawkins, author of The Greatest Show on Earth, in a Salon interview. Hmmm. Let’s see. I’m a creationist (of the Old […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,37,38,59],"tags":[1034,332,333,1050,330,331],"class_list":["post-2456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","category-evolution","category-intelligent-design","category-rusty","tag-atheism","tag-creationism","tag-creationist","tag-evolution","tag-richard-dawkins","tag-the-greatest-show-on-earth"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}