{"id":546,"date":"2013-06-11T20:34:11","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T20:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/?p=546"},"modified":"2017-02-24T17:33:43","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T17:33:43","slug":"intelligent-design-discussed-intelligently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/2013\/06\/intelligent-design-discussed-intelligently\/","title":{"rendered":"Intelligent Design Discussed Intelligently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So, after my <a title=\"Isaac \u201cThe Man\u201d Newton\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/2013\/06\/isaac-the-man-newton\/\">last post on Neil deGrasse Tyson talking about UFOs<\/a>, I watched both clips again because they&#8217;re just so damn good. At the end of the second clip, I was offered this video, where deGrasse Tyson does a presentation on Intelligent Design.<\/p>\n<p>Now I thought, foolishly it turns out, that this was something about how to design everyday objects intelligently, perhaps imbuing them with some kind of natural efficiency, or intuitive function.<\/p>\n<p>Nope, &#8220;intelligent design&#8221; is a philosophy which invokes God as the creator of everything. Here, I&#8217;ll save you the act of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Intelligent_design#Scientific_criticism\" target=\"_blank\">looking it up on Wikipedia<\/a> which goes into a LOT of detail on why this &#8220;scientific hypothesis of God&#8221; is anything but scientific.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a long presentation at 45 minutes, but let me just say &#8211; I only intended to watch 5 minutes to get the gist and ended up watching the whole presentation. THEN, I felt compelled to blog about it, because it&#8217;s just that awesome. Hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Neil Tyson presentation about intelligent design\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ti3mtDC2fQo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; So, after my last post on Neil deGrasse Tyson talking about UFOs, I watched both clips again because they&#8217;re just so damn good. At the end of the second clip, I was offered this video, where deGrasse Tyson does a presentation on Intelligent Design. Now I thought, foolishly it turns out, that this was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,109],"tags":[117,114,111,118,115,116,110,105,113,112],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cool","category-science","tag-galileo","tag-huygens","tag-intelligent-design","tag-islam","tag-laplace","tag-napolean","tag-neil-degrasse-tyson","tag-newton","tag-ptolemy","tag-twin-towers"],"mb":[],"mfb_rest_fields":["title"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}