{"id":3021,"date":"2005-01-11T18:54:16","date_gmt":"2005-01-12T01:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2005\/01\/should-be-obvious\/"},"modified":"2005-01-11T18:54:16","modified_gmt":"2005-01-12T01:54:16","slug":"should-be-obvious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/11\/should-be-obvious\/","title":{"rendered":"Should be obvious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tMany of the neo-cons are in the curious position of supporting the Intelligent Design silliness while not signing up for belief in a god, for reasons that Ron Bailey explained very well in <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/9707\/fe.bailey.shtml\">a classic essay in Reason magazine<\/a> a few years ago. So it&#8217;s heartening to see an outbreak of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/thecorner\/05_01_09_corner-archive.asp#049944\">good sense at NRO on the part of John Derbyshire<\/a>, especially since NR founder Bill Buckley is soft on creationism himself. Now if somebody can just talk some sense into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hughhewitt.com\/index.htm\">Hugh Hewitt<\/a> we might make some real progress. (H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instapundit.com\/\">Instapundit<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Evolution isn&#8217;t a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pandasthumb.org\/\">hard issue to understand<\/a>, and even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncseweb.org\/resources\/articles\/8712_message_from_the_pope_1996_1_3_2001.asp\">the Pope is on the right side<\/a> of the question (he accepts natural selection as &#8220;more than an hypothesis&#8221;). So how can you trust the political analysis of people who can&#8217;t get it right?\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of the neo-cons are in the curious position of supporting the Intelligent Design silliness while not signing up for belief in a god, for reasons that Ron Bailey explained very well in a classic essay in Reason magazine a few years ago. So it&#8217;s heartening to see an outbreak of good sense at NRO &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/11\/should-be-obvious\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Should be obvious&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-MJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}