{"id":2210,"date":"2012-08-28T17:56:16","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T23:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/?p=2210"},"modified":"2012-09-03T13:45:27","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T19:45:27","slug":"111-kirk-hastings-what-is-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/?p=2210","title":{"rendered":"111: Kirk Hastings’ “What Is Truth?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

[irrelig]Surprise! Kirk Hastings’ recent email<\/b><\/a> drew me out of (semi-)retirement. After recovering from those withering electronic insults, I sat down with expert Hovindologist Matt W to review Hastings’ magnum opus, “What Is Truth?”<\/b><\/a> We examined his many and varied claims about truthology, and how they relate to science and most especially “Darwinism.” In this episode<\/b><\/a> — part one of a three-part series — we discuss Kirk’s conversion process and his absolutely unshocking failure to grasp even the basic principles of science and mathematics while he attempts to take down Darwinism. This series could also be entitled, “We read Kirk Hastings’ shitty rehashed creationist screed so you don’t have to.”<\/p>\n

Kirk does get an A for effort, though, and should he succeed in his quest to demolish Darwin’s theory of evil-ution, he may ultimately end up with a Nobel Prize. History (or maybe the next episode, where we finish talking about the science portion of his book) will have to render a verdict on that score.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[irrelig]Surprise! Kirk Hastings’ recent email drew me out of (semi-)retirement. After recovering from those withering electronic insults, I sat down with expert Hovindologist Matt W to review Hastings’ magnum opus, “What Is Truth?” We examined his many and varied claims about truthology, and how they relate to science and most especially “Darwinism.” In this episode […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16,9,17,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-creationism","category-critiques","category-evolution","category-podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2256,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions\/2256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}