{"id":2500,"date":"2009-02-04T18:58:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T23:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=2500"},"modified":"2009-02-04T18:58:34","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T23:58:34","slug":"how-to-substitute-offence-for-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/how-to-substitute-offence-for-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"How to substitute offence for sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read it all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,487568,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/images\/499964\/0_61_020309_stein.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Comedian Ben Stein Cancels Speech Over Evolution Controversy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Comedian Ben Stein has withdrawn as the University of Vermont&#8217;s commencement speaker because of complaints about his critical views on evolution in favor of intelligent design.<\/p>\n<p>UVM President Daniel Fogel said he chose Stein based on the warm response to a lecture he gave on campus last spring. Fogel said, however, he was deluged with e-mail messages from people offended by Stein&#8217;s views of science.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems that Richard Dawkins, in the spirit of free scientific inquiry, <a href=\"http:\/\/straightfromthesource.wordpress.com\/2009\/02\/02\/uvms-president-responds-to-questions-about-commencement-speaker-ben-stein\/\" target=\"_blank\">emailed Fogel<\/a> to pressure him into turning down Stein for this engagement. What&#8217;s the matter, Richard? Afraid that an opposing view might expose the truth?<\/p>\n<p>How can anyone be offended by a view of science? It sounds as if this comes from \u00a0people who don&#8217;t have the mental wherewithal to muster a rational argument for their position, so they have to fall back on the &#8220;I am offended&#8221; plea.<\/p>\n<p>You are offended? Good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it all here Comedian Ben Stein Cancels Speech Over Evolution Controversy Comedian Ben Stein has withdrawn as the University of Vermont&#8217;s commencement speaker because of complaints about his critical views on evolution in favor of intelligent design. UVM President &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/how-to-substitute-offence-for-sense\/\">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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[2136],"class_list":["post-2500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","tag-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500","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=2500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}