{"id":28098,"date":"2015-06-19T10:34:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T09:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/?p=28098"},"modified":"2015-06-19T10:34:55","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T09:34:55","slug":"a-question-for-barry-arrington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/a-question-for-barry-arrington\/","title":{"rendered":"A question for Barry Arrington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>He has reified the abstract concept of gravity and attributed casual <\/em>[sic]<em> powers to the reified concept. It is easy to fall into that hole, and we should all watch out for it.<\/em><br \/>\n&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommondescent.com\/intelligent-design\/is-dark-matter-the-21st-century-aether\/#comment-569208\">Barry Arrington, June 18, 2015 at 3:10 pm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hear from intelligent-design proponents that information is neither matter nor energy, is conserved by material processes, and is created only by intelligence. Would you please explain how they determined that <em>intelligence<\/em> is real, and not merely an abstraction? I&#8217;d like to see you contrast it with <em>gravity<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He has reified the abstract concept of gravity and attributed casual [sic] powers to the reified concept. It is easy to fall into that hole, and we should all watch out for it. &#8212;Barry Arrington, June 18, 2015 at 3:10 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/a-question-for-barry-arrington\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1091,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28098","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\/1091"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}