{"id":5900,"date":"2011-09-27T21:27:10","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T01:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=5900"},"modified":"2011-09-27T21:27:10","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T01:27:10","slug":"in-the-interests-of-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2011\/09\/in-the-interests-of-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"In the interests of balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Part of adopting a critical-thinking cap is being willing to look at all sides of an issue, and seriously consider the arguments counter to the views you hold. Anyone who&#8217;s poked around on this blog long enough knows that I have an interest in evolution, so I feel obligated to feature Bobbie-The-Jean&#8217;s post of <a href=\"http:\/\/bobbie-the-jean.deviantart.com\/journal\/23586617\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>50 Reasons I Reject Evolution<\/em><\/strong><\/a> as an alternate viewpoint. I won&#8217;t even comment &#8211; I&#8217;ll let it stand on its own, and allow you to judge for yourself.<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\">Thanks to Ed Yong at <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/notrocketscience\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Not Exactly Rocket Science<\/em><\/a> for the link. When you get to be popular, people send you stuff to feature. If you don&#8217;t like how rarely I post, it&#8217;s cause <em>you&#8217;re not doing your part!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Oh, it&#8217;s okay. I like you anyway&#8230;<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of adopting a critical-thinking cap is being willing to look at all sides of an issue, and seriously consider the arguments counter to the views you hold. Anyone who&#8217;s poked around on this blog long enough knows that I have an interest in evolution, so I feel obligated to feature Bobbie-The-Jean&#8217;s post of 50 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5,6,9],"tags":[895,896,897,898],"class_list":["post-5900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-continued","category-critic","category-humor","category-science","tag-50-reasons-i-reject-evolution","tag-bobbie-the-jean","tag-ed-yong","tag-not-exactly-rocket-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}