{"id":1259,"date":"2008-09-16T12:31:38","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T16:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2008-09-16T12:31:38","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T16:31:38","slug":"church-of-england-apologises-to-darwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/16\/church-of-england-apologises-to-darwin\/","title":{"rendered":"Church of England Apologises to Darwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/religion\/2910447\/Charles-Darwin-to-receive-apology-from-the-Church-of-England-for-rejecting-evolution.html\" target=\"_blank\">to issue a formal apology<\/a> to Charles Darwin for rejecting his theory of evolution almost 150 years ago. \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;m kind of impressed by this, actually. \u00c2\u00a0It probably won&#8217;t help the radicals come to grips with their prejudice, but it&#8217;s a nice gesture that might help to push things back towards sanity. \u00c2\u00a0Any shift in that direction, however slight, is a welcome change these days.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Opposition to evolutionary theories is still &#8220;a litmus test of faithfulness&#8221; for some Christian movements, the Church will admit. It will say that such attitudes owe much to a fear of perceived threats to Christianity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Huh, ya think?<\/p>\n<p>We have talked about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/26\/jesus\/\" target=\"_blank\">Church of England<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/29\/jesus-again\/\" target=\"_blank\">before<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0They seem remarkably progressive for a church&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England is to issue a formal apology to Charles Darwin for rejecting his theory of evolution almost 150 years ago. \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;m kind of impressed by this, actually. \u00c2\u00a0It probably won&#8217;t help the radicals come to grips with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/16\/church-of-england-apologises-to-darwin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apocalypse-soon","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-kj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1260,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions\/1260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}