{"id":3609,"date":"2005-09-02T14:23:37","date_gmt":"2005-09-02T21:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/09\/02\/stupid-remarks\/"},"modified":"2005-09-02T14:23:37","modified_gmt":"2005-09-02T21:23:37","slug":"stupid-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/02\/stupid-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupid remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tMark Steyn made some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steynonline.com\/index2.cfm?edit_id=30\">incredibly stupid remarks <\/a>about Intelligent Design recently:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The fact is that this is a planet overwhelmingly dominated and shaped by one species, and our kith and kin \u2013 whether gibbons or pumpkins \u2013 basically fit in in the spaces between. That&#8217;s pretty much the world the Psalmist outlined in the Old Testament thousands of years ago. By comparison, the evolutionists&#8217; insistence that we&#8217;re just another &#8220;animal&#8221; seems perverse and irrational and refuted by a casual glance out the window. I am coming round to the view that hyper-rationalism is highly irrational.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230; prompting a rather <a href=\"http:\/\/pharyngula.org\/index\/weblog\/comments\/mark_steyn_space_dwelling_robot_brain\/\">stupid attack<\/a> from one of the knee-jerks of the left:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps we&#8217;ve found that Intelligent Designer\u2014an inorganic mind living outside of our universe, in a dark, empty vacuum, cooly contemplating our messy little planet. And that machine-like intelligence is Mark Steyn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Can&#8217;t we try and be a little more civil?\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Steyn made some incredibly stupid remarks about Intelligent Design recently: The fact is that this is a planet overwhelmingly dominated and shaped by one species, and our kith and kin \u2013 whether gibbons or pumpkins \u2013 basically fit in in the spaces between. That&#8217;s pretty much the world the Psalmist outlined in the Old &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/02\/stupid-remarks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stupid remarks&#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-3609","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-Wd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609","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=3609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}