{"id":9499,"date":"2010-02-20T15:00:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T15:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/ark-of-descent-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-02-20T15:00:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T15:00:18","slug":"ark-of-descent-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/ark-of-descent-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Ark of descent | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently the UK paper The Guardian <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/2010\/jan\/01\/noahs-ark-was-circular\">posted an article<\/a> stating &mdash; without a shred of skepticism &mdash; that Noah&rsquo;s Ark may have been round. <\/p><p>Sigh. OK, fine. But it gets better.<\/p><p>The Institute for Creation Research &mdash; given just their name, you might guess they haven&rsquo;t found a scientific fact they couldn&rsquo;t spin, fold, or mutilate&hellip; and you&rsquo;d be right &mdash; <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.icr.org\/article\/5158\/\">claims the article is wrong<\/a>. <\/p><p>Why?<\/p><p><em>Because a round ark makes no sense.<\/em><\/p><p>And&hellip;<\/p><p>BANG!<\/p><p>There goes my irony gland again. Luckily it grows back quickly, because in this line of work I seem to need it a lot.<\/p><p><em>[Update: Without any comment, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2010\/02\/19\/tech\/main6223928.shtml?tag=cbsnewsSectionContent.13\">I'll just add this link here<\/a>. The connection should be obvious enough.]<\/em><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/8b902eb4VMdJxeB7d-8kpijJGTQ\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5a91e_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/8b902eb4VMdJxeB7d-8kpijJGTQ\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5a91e_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\/5a91e_ZYoiIKO-22M\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5a91e_0gyhPP1FW-M\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently the UK paper The Guardian posted an article stating &mdash; without a shred of skepticism &mdash; that Noah&rsquo;s Ark may have been round. Sigh. OK, fine. But it gets better.The Institute for Creation Research &mdash; given just their name, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/ark-of-descent-bad-astronomy.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-9499","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\/9499"}],"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=9499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}