I was poking around Lehigh’s website when I decided to stop by their department of Biological Sciences, home of the infamous Michael “ID” Behe.<\/p>\n
On a whim, I decided to see if any of his colleagues brought up the whole ID thing on their department sites and found Professor Jill Schneider<\/a>‘s lucid, funny take on the role of “belief” in science.\u00c2\u00a0 Worth readin<\/a>g. (The link from her site duplicates a directory, but my link works.)<\/p>\n A snip:<\/p>\n After Darwin’s Origin of the Species <\/em> was published, evolutionary theory was further supported by discoveries in genetics and molecular biology. The modern synthetic theory of evolution <\/a> is a scientific theory supported by data, lots of data <\/a>(even macroevolution is supported by data<\/a>). As a theory, however, it remains open to continued experimental testing. I do not “believe” in it. I find it scientifically useful.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was poking around Lehigh’s website when I decided to stop by their department of Biological Sciences, home of the infamous Michael “ID” Behe. On a whim, I decided to see if any of his colleagues brought up the whole ID thing on their department sites and found Professor Jill Schneider‘s lucid, funny take on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-2c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}