{"id":4927,"date":"2009-12-30T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=4927"},"modified":"2010-07-27T11:10:21","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T16:10:21","slug":"wrestling-faith-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wrestling-faith-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrestling, Faith &#038; Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/flickr\/photo\/250702693\/double-head-lock.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"Double head lock\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/89\/250702693_e7709dcc9c.jpg\" alt=\"Double head lock\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve posted anything about the squared-circle.<\/p>\n<p>But Tripp posted <a href=\"http:\/\/homebrewedchristianity.com\/2009\/12\/29\/pro-wrestlin-and-the-religion-science-debate\">a great find over at Homebrewed Christianity<\/a> in which &#8220;Wofford college professors Byron R. McCane and Dan Mathewson reveal how the equally toothless performances of New Atheists like Richard Dawkins and creationists like Ken Ham share more with the garish world of Hulk Hogan and the Iron Sheik than with serious scholarship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a great paper piece that compares the one-sided, over stereotypical and simplified views of Ham (Creation Science Museum) and Dawkins to Hulk Hogan and Stone Cold Steve Austin.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of fun. I give it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iy-LQH8N6Ug\">five Ric Flair &#8220;WOOOOOOOO&#8217;s&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rasslin&#039; with Religion &amp; Science\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/8418819?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>What do you think? Do Dawkins and Ham respresent over stereotypical and simplified views or science and religion at it&#8217;s best?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve posted anything about the squared-circle. But Tripp posted a great find over at Homebrewed Christianity in which &#8220;Wofford college professors Byron R. McCane and Dan Mathewson reveal how the equally toothless performances of New Atheists like Richard Dawkins and creationists like Ken Ham share more with the garish world &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wrestling-faith-science\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wrestling, Faith &#038; Science<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,20],"tags":[2849,2850,4650,2853,2854,2851,2852,275,2855,671],"class_list":["post-4927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-newsandpop","tag-byron-mccane","tag-dan-mathewson","tag-faith","tag-holk-hogan","tag-iron-sheik","tag-ken-ham","tag-richard-dawkins","tag-science","tag-stone-cold-steve-austin","tag-wrestling"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-1ht","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}