{"id":520,"date":"2009-05-21T13:28:09","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T18:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=520"},"modified":"2009-05-21T13:28:09","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T18:28:09","slug":"humans-may-have-evolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=520","title":{"rendered":"Humans May Have Evolved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2009\/05\/090519-missing-link-found.html\">New fossil is all the rage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s kind of annoying how some news reports are considering this a major salvo in the epic battle between evolutionists and creationists. There&#8217;s no battle. There really isn&#8217;t. (There is a battle between those who want to teach science in science class and those who want to teach bald, faith-based assertions.)<\/p>\n<p>A scientific discovery isn&#8217;t a salvo fired at people who don&#8217;t believe in science. A scientific discovery is just more science. Creationists won&#8217;t, for one second, consider this the big evidence that humans evolved. They won&#8217;t, for one second, say, &#8220;oh, ok, so common descent with modification DOES account for all the diversity on earth!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is a great find, and very interesting and exciting as science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New fossil is all the rage. It&#8217;s kind of annoying how some news reports are considering this a major salvo in the epic battle between evolutionists and creationists. There&#8217;s no battle. There really isn&#8217;t. (There is a battle between those who want to teach science in science class and those who want to teach bald, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution-and-such"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}