{"id":97,"date":"2009-04-28T09:50:29","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T07:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/?p=97"},"modified":"2009-04-28T09:50:29","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T07:50:29","slug":"alternative-theories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/28\/alternative-theories\/","title":{"rendered":"alternative theories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>while i am not averse to dismissing things as complete lunacy, i am a firm believer in collecting a modicum of information on a given topic before doing so, just to make sure that i&#8217;m right and everyone else is wrong. lately, i saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/id\/\" target=\"_blank\">a really good documentary on the early history of the intelligent design movement<\/a> in the states and its ties to creationism via an evolutionary missing link with the odd name of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/11\/09\/new-term-for-creatio.html\" target=\"_blank\">cdesign proponentsists<\/a>&#8220;. as a result, i&#8217;ve been looking at alternative and possibly competing theories. a small collection is listed below&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Inception_of_Darwin%27s_theory\" target=\"_blank\">darwin&#8217;s theory<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.intelligentdesign.org\" target=\"_blank\">intelligent design<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.venganza.org\" target=\"_blank\">the church of the flying spaghetti monster<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.subgenius.com\" target=\"_blank\">the church of the subgenius<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>it is left to the reader to decide on the relative significance of each of these&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>while i am not averse to dismissing things as complete lunacy, i am a firm believer in collecting a modicum of information on a given topic before doing so, just to make sure that i&#8217;m right and everyone else is wrong. lately, i saw a really good documentary on the early history of the intelligent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fluff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p48hIM-1z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}