{"id":1487,"date":"2012-12-13T19:55:06","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T19:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2014-07-03T21:41:28","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T20:41:28","slug":"on-paul-nelson-on-macro-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/on-paul-nelson-on-macro-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"On Paul Nelson on macro-evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Nelson has argued against macro-evolution, and I sense that some folk here want to discuss it.\u00a0 So here&#8217;s a thread where we can do that without taking other threads off-topic.<\/p>\n<p>First, some references.\u00a0 There are three UD threads on this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommondescent.com\/news\/video-paul-nelson-at-saddleback\/\">Video: Paul Nelson At Saddleback<\/a> (by News).\u00a0 This thread includes a link to the 40 minute video (which I watched a few days ago).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommondescent.com\/intelligent-design\/jerry-coyne-and-poisoning-the-well\/\">Jerry Coyne and Poisoning the Well<\/a> (by johnnyb).\u00a0 This thread criticizes Jerry Coyne&#8217;s response to the video.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommondescent.com\/intelligent-design\/larry-moran-defends-paul-nelson\/\">Larry Moran defends Paul Nelson!<\/a> (by vjtorley).\u00a0 This discusses some comments that Larry made on Jerry Coyne&#8217;s post.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more-->There has also been some commentary on the video by evolutionists:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/11\/a-marshall-mcluhan-moment-with-creationist-paul-nelson\/\">A Marshall McLuhan moment with creationist Paul Nelson<\/a> (by Jerry Coyne).\u00a0 This is the post that johnnyb criticized.\u00a0 It has extensive comments (260 at the moment), including comments by Larry Moran (alluded to in the vjtorley title), and comments by Paul Nelson.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2012\/12\/11\/it-couldnt-happen-to-a-nicer-guy\/\">It couldn\u2019t happen to a nicer guy<\/a> (by PZ Myers).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A couple of comments have appeared at TSZ, <a title=\"comment by Allan Miller\" href=\"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/?p=1472&amp;cpage=2#comment-18588\">here<\/a> and <a title=\"comment by petrushka\" href=\"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/?page_id=651&amp;cpage=15#comment-18609\">here<\/a> (and I probably missed others).<\/p>\n<p>Open for discussion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Nelson has argued against macro-evolution, and I sense that some folk here want to discuss it.\u00a0 So here&#8217;s a thread where we can do that without taking other threads off-topic. First, some references.\u00a0 There are three UD threads on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/on-paul-nelson-on-macro-evolution\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[46,45],"class_list":["post-1487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","tag-darwinism","tag-natural-selection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}