{"id":13540,"date":"2005-04-15T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-15T17:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/15\/science-vs-norse-mythology\/"},"modified":"2005-04-15T17:41:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-15T17:41:00","slug":"science-vs-norse-mythology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/15\/science-vs-norse-mythology\/","title":{"rendered":"Science vs. Norse Mythology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>The Pain<\/i> has a comic entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepaincomics.com\/weekly041229a.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Science vs. Norse Mythology on Creation<\/a> which compares the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Big_bang\" target=\"_blank\">&ldquo;scientific&rdquo; explanation<\/a> for the creation of the Universe with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norse_Mythology\" target=\"_blank\">Norse beliefs<\/a> found in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eddas\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Edda<\/i><\/a>.  I especially like the cartoonist&rsquo;s disclaimer at the end of the strip:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I would like to issue an official apology to any believers in the Norse faith. I certainly have no wish to get on the wrong side of any Vikings, who historically have not expressed their grievances through letters-to-the-editor. As my friend John Patton pointed out to me, it\u2019s a little foolhardy of me to insult the religion of a seafaring warrior people when I live right on the water.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-111341167958009007?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pain has a comic entitled Science vs. Norse Mythology on Creation which compares the &ldquo;scientific&rdquo; explanation for the creation of the Universe with Norse beliefs found in the Edda. I especially like the cartoonist&rsquo;s disclaimer at the end of the strip: I would like to issue an official apology to any believers in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/15\/science-vs-norse-mythology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Science vs. Norse Mythology&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}