{"id":612,"date":"2006-02-01T13:18:25","date_gmt":"2006-02-01T18:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2006\/02\/01\/wedgies\/"},"modified":"2006-02-01T13:18:25","modified_gmt":"2006-02-01T18:18:25","slug":"wedgies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/01\/wedgies\/","title":{"rendered":"Wedgies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intelligent Design isn&#8217;t science, it&#8217;s simply a public-relations strategy to force religion into public high schools.  Duh.  But the ID folks will swear on a stack of Bibles that it has nothing to do with religion, it&#8217;s just a natural product of the scientific process.   Which makes it remarkably dumb to actually write a strategy document detailing how ID is used to sneak religion into public life &#8212; these things have a way of leaking out into the public.   <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2006\/02\/the_true_history_of_the_wedge.php\"><img class=\"alignright\" width=\"200\" src='http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/uploads\/wedge_cover.jpg' alt='Wedge Document' \/><\/a>  But they did, and it did, and the result is the famous <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wedge_document\">Wedge Document<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleweekly.com\/news\/0605\/discovery-darwin.php\">the story can be told<\/a> of how the Wedge Document was secretly copied and released onto the internets.  Turns out it was the heroic clandestine efforts of <a href=\"http:\/\/whatisthewar.blogspot.com\/\">Matthew Duss<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchofvirus.org\/virus.1Q99\/0510.html\">Tim Rhodes<\/a>, who are clearly worthy of a Nobel or a MacArthur or some kind of prize.  (I doubt they&#8217;re eligible for the Templeton Prize.)  <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2006\/02\/the_true_history_of_the_wedge.php\">Pharyngula<\/a> has the story, as well as a <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/upload\/2006\/02\/Wedge.pdf\">pdf version of the Wedge Document itself<\/a>, complete with the Discovery Institute address and email at the bottom, not to mention some sort of weird Masonic pyramid logo.  Priceless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intelligent Design isn&#8217;t science, it&#8217;s simply a public-relations strategy to force religion into public high schools. Duh. But the ID folks will swear on a stack of Bibles that it has nothing to do with religion, it&#8217;s just a natural product of the scientific process. Which makes it remarkably dumb to actually write a strategy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","category-science-and-society"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}