{"id":531,"date":"2007-12-21T08:59:25","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T12:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=531"},"modified":"2007-12-23T10:44:27","modified_gmt":"2007-12-23T14:44:27","slug":"miracles-of-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=531","title":{"rendered":"Miracles of physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/12\/20\/AR2007122001866.html\">Michael Gerson<\/a> almost forces me to pull the &quot;Don&#39;t know much about &quot; title.&nbsp; He writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong> I have little knowledge of, or interest in<\/strong>, the science behind this debate. Can gradual evolutionary changes account for the complex structures of cells and the eye? Why is the fossil record so weak when it comes to major mutations? I have no idea. There are unsolved mysteries in Darwinian evolution. There is also no credible scientific alternative. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>But whatever the scientific objections, it is the theological objections to evolution that are weakest. Critics seem to argue that the laws of nature are somehow less miraculous than their divine suspension. But <strong>the elegant formulas of physics, and the complex mechanisms of evolution, strike me as an equal tribute to the Creator<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But you don&#39;t know much about them, so why bother?&nbsp; The silly thing is that he&#39;s trying to be conciliatory. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Gerson almost forces me to pull the &quot;Don&#39;t know much about &quot; title.&nbsp; He writes: I have little knowledge of, or interest in, the science behind this debate. Can gradual evolutionary changes account for the complex structures of cells and the eye? Why is the fossil record so weak when it comes to major &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=531\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Miracles of physics<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contradictions","category-michael-gerson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}