{"id":12499,"date":"2011-04-06T16:50:12","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T20:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=12499"},"modified":"2011-04-06T16:50:12","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T20:50:12","slug":"evolutionary-newspeak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/evolutionary-newspeak\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolutionary Newspeak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evolutionnews.org\/2011\/04\/the_newspeak_of_evolutionary_b045551.html\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The anti-ID biologist Richard Dawkins once said, &#8220;Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose.&#8221; Now some ID critics today are so fearful of lending any credence towards intelligent design that they are recommending that biologists stop using the word &#8220;design&#8221; entirely.<\/p>\n<p>A recent article in the journal Bioessays by its editor Andrew Moore, titled &#8220;We need a new language for evolution. . . everywhere,&#8221; suggests that biologists should stop using the term &#8220;design.&#8221; According to Moore, under &#8220;Evolution old-speak&#8221; we would say, &#8220;Structure X is designed to perform&#8230;&#8221; but under &#8220;Evolution new-speak&#8221; we must simply say, &#8220;Structure X performs Y.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This means that, since Richard Dawkins\u2019 head isn\u2019t <em>designed<\/em> to hold his ears six inches apart but merely performs the <em>function<\/em> of doing so, it is an even less important organ that I first thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: The anti-ID biologist Richard Dawkins once said, &#8220;Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose.&#8221; Now some ID critics today are so fearful of lending any credence towards &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/evolutionary-newspeak\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[2136,2238],"class_list":["post-12499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","tag-evolution","tag-richard-dawkins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}