{"id":62,"date":"2011-03-02T12:36:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T16:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/understandingsecularism.wp.trincoll.edu\/2011\/03\/02\/evolution-education-and-the-science-religion-conflict-dispatches-from-a-philosophical-correspondent\/"},"modified":"2011-10-12T13:28:02","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T17:28:02","slug":"evolution-education-and-the-science-religion-conflict-dispatches-from-a-philosophical-correspondent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/2011\/03\/02\/evolution-education-and-the-science-religion-conflict-dispatches-from-a-philosophical-correspondent\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolution Education and the Science-Religion Conflict: Dispatches from a Philosophical Correspondent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Austin Dacey,\u00a0contributing editor with Skeptical Inquirer magazine and a\u00a0representative to the United Nations for the Center for Inquiry<\/p>\n<p>Dawkins wrote The God Delusion, a 400-page polemic on the irrationality of supernatural theism, and the absurdity and immorality of much traditional religion. Perhaps it should not surprise that the most commercially successful book by Dawkins is also the book worst received by his colleagues in science and science education. Although many reviewers spoke admiringly of his intellectual integrity, they criticized him for what they regarded as a confrontational, combative stance on religion.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View Evolution Education and the Science-Religion Conflict: Dispatches from a Philosophical Correspondent on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/17326656\/Evolution-Education-and-the-ScienceReligion-Conflict-Dispatches-from-a-Philosophical-Correspondent\">Evolution Education and the Science-Religion Conflict: Dispatches from a Philosophical Correspondent<\/a> <object height=\"600\" width=\"100%\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"document_id=17326656&amp;access_key=key-2dfycf7x7bp8p9tf9ke&amp;page=1&amp;viewMode=list\"><embed name=\"doc_98056\" src=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=17326656&amp;access_key=key-2dfycf7x7bp8p9tf9ke&amp;page=1&amp;viewMode=list\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"600\" width=\"100%\" wmode=\"opaque\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Austin Dacey,\u00a0contributing editor with Skeptical Inquirer magazine and a\u00a0representative to the United Nations for the Center for Inquiry Dawkins wrote The God Delusion, a 400-page polemic on the irrationality of supernatural theism, and the absurdity and immorality of much &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/2011\/03\/02\/evolution-education-and-the-science-religion-conflict-dispatches-from-a-philosophical-correspondent\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,29,30,33],"tags":[63,64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1225,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/1225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}