{"id":3579,"date":"2005-08-23T14:16:23","date_gmt":"2005-08-23T21:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/08\/23\/stupid-design\/"},"modified":"2005-08-23T14:16:23","modified_gmt":"2005-08-23T21:16:23","slug":"stupid-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/23\/stupid-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupid Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tI thought I&#8217;d read some idiocy about evolution, but this piece of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/deepak-chopra\/intelligent-design-withou_b_6105.html\">moronic Deepak Chopra drivel<\/a> takes the cake and bakes a new one. It&#8217;s breath-takingly stupid. Among other things, Chopra is concerned that the fossil record didn&#8217;t preserve maladaptive mutations or the transition from interesting chemicals to self-replicating life. Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile back in reality, the New York Times ran a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/08\/21\/national\/21evolve.html?pagewanted=1\">nice expose on the Discovery Institute<\/a> Sunday. More on these things later.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Dr. Myers has <a href=\"http:\/\/pharyngula.org\/index\/weblog\/comments\/moonbat_anti_evolutionist_deepak_chopra\/\">some fun with Chopra<\/a>, but cuts him way too much slack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I&#8217;d read some idiocy about evolution, but this piece of moronic Deepak Chopra drivel takes the cake and bakes a new one. It&#8217;s breath-takingly stupid. Among other things, Chopra is concerned that the fossil record didn&#8217;t preserve maladaptive mutations or the transition from interesting chemicals to self-replicating life. Jesus. Meanwhile back in reality, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/23\/stupid-design\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stupid Design&#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":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-VJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579","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=3579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}