{"id":7929,"date":"2010-09-18T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/18\/consolmagno-the-popes-astronomer\/"},"modified":"2010-09-18T13:46:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-18T13:46:00","slug":"consolmagno-the-popes-astronomer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/18\/consolmagno-the-popes-astronomer\/","title":{"rendered":"Consolmagno, the Pope&#8217;s Astronomer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2010\/sep\/17\/pope-astronomer-baptise-aliens?CMP=twt_gu'>Consolmagno, the Pope&#8217;s Astronomer<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>Consolmagno curates the pope&rsquo;s meteorite collection and is a trained astronomer and planetary scientist at the Vatican&rsquo;s observatory. He dismissed the ideas of intelligent design \u2013 a pseudoscientific version of creationism. &ldquo;The word has been hijacked by a narrow group of creationist fundamentalists in America to mean something it didn&rsquo;t originally mean at all. It&rsquo;s another form of the God of the gaps. It&rsquo;s bad theology in that it turns God once again into the pagan god of thunder and lightning.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hear, hear!<\/p>\n<p>[via <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/09\/17\/popes-astronomer-wou.html\" target=\"_blank\">Boing Boing<\/a><\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consolmagno, the Pope&#8217;s Astronomer Consolmagno curates the pope&rsquo;s meteorite collection and is a trained astronomer and planetary scientist at the Vatican&rsquo;s observatory. He dismissed the ideas of intelligent design \u2013 a pseudoscientific version of creationism. &ldquo;The word has been hijacked by a narrow group of creationist fundamentalists in America to mean something it didn&rsquo;t originally &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/18\/consolmagno-the-popes-astronomer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Consolmagno, the Pope&#8217;s Astronomer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}