{"id":9055,"date":"2005-08-24T19:10:30","date_gmt":"2005-08-25T00:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2005\/08\/24\/senator-endorses-intelligent-design\/"},"modified":"2005-08-24T19:10:30","modified_gmt":"2005-08-25T00:10:30","slug":"senator-endorses-intelligent-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/24\/senator-endorses-intelligent-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator endorses Intelligent Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But perhaps not one you&#8217;d think.  From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azstarnet.com\/sn\/politics\/90069\">Arizona Daily Star<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/politics\/\/senator-antiscience-118978.php\">Wonkette<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Tuesday, though, [John McCain] sided with the president on two issues that have made headlines recently: teaching intelligent design in schools and Cindy Sheehan, the grieving mother who has come to personify the anti-war movement.<\/p>\n<p>McCain told the Star that, like Bush, he believes &#8220;all points of view&#8221; should be available to students studying the origins of mankind.<\/p>\n<p>The theory of intelligent design says life is too complex to have developed through evolution, and that a higher power must have had a hand in guiding it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are liberals out there who are fond of John McCain because he&#8217;s some sort of &#8220;maverick.&#8221;  This time he&#8217;s lining up with the majority, it would seem.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update<\/em>:  And now he&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/shakespearessister.blogspot.com\/2005\/08\/how-low-can-he-go.html\">flip-flopped on gay marriage<\/a>, in the wrong direction.  I hope he enjoys life as a pandering politician more than he did as a principled statesman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But perhaps not one you&#8217;d think. From the Arizona Daily Star, via Wonkette. On Tuesday, though, [John McCain] sided with the president on two issues that have made headlines recently: teaching intelligent design in schools and Cindy Sheehan, the grieving mother who has come to personify the anti-war movement. McCain told the Star that, like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9055","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=9055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}