{"id":81,"date":"2006-05-27T08:23:12","date_gmt":"2006-05-27T15:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=81"},"modified":"2008-05-05T10:05:47","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T17:05:47","slug":"creationisms-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"Creationism&#8217;s Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2006\/05\/here_in_the_north_there_is_no.php\">This<\/a> is revealing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If the town complains and says no, the committee can ask the principal or the director of teachers to approach the teacher and say, &#8216;Look, this is not the subject to be taught here in this town, or in this place, because we know we have been humans from the beginning, &#8216;&#8221; said Molly Tayara.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t personally accept my children being taught that they came from some species from Africa somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Here in the North there is no such thing as monkeys.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some species from Africa somewhere? Right. They say &#8220;monkey,&#8221; but that&#8217;s code. The word they mean . . . the word they know better than to utter . . . starts with the letter N.<\/p>\n<p>Creationism=Racism. Creationists=Racists. That&#8217;s all there is to it; that&#8217;s all anyone needs to know.<\/p>\n<p>Credit where credit&#8217;s due: spotted at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/majikthise.typepad.com\/\">Majikthise<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is revealing: &#8220;If the town complains and says no, the committee can ask the principal or the director of teachers to approach the teacher and say, &#8216;Look, this is not the subject to be taught here in this town, or in this place, because we know we have been humans from the beginning, &#8216;&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-current-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}