{"id":431,"date":"2005-10-21T18:28:50","date_gmt":"2005-10-21T22:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/?p=431"},"modified":"2005-10-21T18:30:38","modified_gmt":"2005-10-21T22:30:38","slug":"dover-panda-trial-id-proponent-swallows-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/21\/dover-panda-trial-id-proponent-swallows-foot\/","title":{"rendered":"Dover Panda Trial: ID proponent swallows foot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=dn8178\">New Scientist<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Astrology would be considered a scientific theory if judged by the same criteria used by a well-known advocate of Intelligent Design to justify his claim that ID is science, a landmark US trial heard on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Under cross examination, ID proponent Michael Behe , a biochemist at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, admitted his definition of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153theory\u00e2\u20ac\u009d was so broad it would also include astrology.<\/p>\n<p>Rothschild (plaintiffs&#8217; attorney) suggested that Behe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s definition was so loose that astrology would come under this definition as well. He also pointed out that Behe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s definition of theory was almost identical to the NAS\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s definition of a hypothesis. Behe agreed with both assertions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And Behe doesn&#8217;t see anything wrong with that.<\/p>\n<p>Great peanut gallery quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153You&#8217;ve got to admire the guy. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Daniel in the lion\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s den,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says Robert Slade, a local retiree who has been attending the trial because he is interested in science. &#8220;But I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe he teaches a college biology class.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From New Scientist: Astrology would be considered a scientific theory if judged by the same criteria used by a well-known advocate of Intelligent Design to justify his claim that ID is science, a landmark US trial heard on Tuesday. Under cross examination, ID proponent Michael Behe , a biochemist at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11,20,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-churchstate-separation","category-politics","category-religion","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}