{"id":27876,"date":"2010-08-12T18:10:58","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T18:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/damn-you-einstein-you-liberal-you-the-intersection\/"},"modified":"2010-08-12T18:10:58","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T18:10:58","slug":"damn-you-einstein-you-liberal-you-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/damn-you-einstein-you-liberal-you-the-intersection.php","title":{"rendered":"Damn You Einstein, You Liberal You | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Romm has found and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2010\/08\/10\/conservapedia-the-theory-of-relativity-is-a-liberal-plot\/\">had a massive amount of fun with<\/a> the Conservapedia entry <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/conservapedia.com\/Theory_of_relativity\">denouncing relativity as a liberal plot<\/a>. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2010\/08\/10\/conservapedia-the-theory-of-relativity-is-a-liberal-plot\/\">Go read his post<\/a>. I&rsquo;ll just quote a bit:<\/p><p>I don&rsquo;t see how that story of Jesus healing somebody proves action at a distance&nbsp;<strong>instantaneously<\/strong>&hellip;. Silly conservatives. You would need to demonstrate that the healing took place&nbsp;<strong>exactly<\/strong> when Jesus spoke to disapprove the special theory of relativity &ndash; rather than say a fraction of a second later.<\/p><p>Warning: If you read <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2010\/08\/10\/conservapedia-the-theory-of-relativity-is-a-liberal-plot\/\">Romm&rsquo;s post <\/a>or the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/conservapedia.com\/Theory_of_relativity\">Conservapedia entry<\/a> on which it is based, you will be entering a true bizarro world&ndash;one in which fidelity to biblical literalism not only leads to the rejection of everything we know, but further, to the generation of extraordinarily wacky scientific-sounding psuedo-arguments.<\/p><p>Just as it does on evolution, actually.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/2hTRs9d9SoNY5bCusGUxWmEQqdo\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/920b5_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/2hTRs9d9SoNY5bCusGUxWmEQqdo\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/920b5_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/920b5_p-M4nubxiOY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Romm has found and had a massive amount of fun with the Conservapedia entry denouncing relativity as a liberal plot. Go read his post. I&rsquo;ll just quote a bit:I don&rsquo;t see how that story of Jesus healing somebody proves &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/damn-you-einstein-you-liberal-you-the-intersection.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}