{"id":156,"date":"2005-09-24T05:17:47","date_gmt":"2005-09-24T12:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegerber.wpengine.com\/?p=156"},"modified":"2005-09-24T05:17:47","modified_gmt":"2005-09-24T12:17:47","slug":"yahoo-news-new-evolution-spat-in-us-schools-goes-to-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo News: New evolution spat in U.S. schools goes to court"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>At least 31 states are taking steps to teach alternatives to evolution. A CBS poll last November found 65 percent of Americans favor teaching creationism as well as evolution while 37 percent want creationism taught instead of evolution. <\/p>\n<p>Fifty-five percent of Americans believe God created humans in their present form, the poll found.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So I figure  about 88 percent must believe in the Tooth Fairy, 92 percent in the existence of the Powerpuff Girls, and at least a majority that we found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>A willfully ignorant nation deserves the leaders it gets.<\/p>\n<p>The full story of the upcoming trial in Pennsylvania is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20050923\/sc_nm\/life_evolution_dc\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 31 states are taking steps to teach alternatives to evolution. A CBS poll last November found 65 percent of Americans favor teaching creationism as well as evolution while 37 percent want creationism taught instead of evolution. Fifty-five percent of Americans believe God created humans in their present form, the poll found. So I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}