{"id":5881,"date":"2005-11-19T09:15:09","date_gmt":"2005-11-19T14:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=5881"},"modified":"2005-11-19T09:15:09","modified_gmt":"2005-11-19T14:15:09","slug":"the-world-turned-upside-down-its-okay-to-read-charles-krauthammer-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-world-turned-upside-down-its-okay-to-read-charles-krauthammer-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"The world turned upside down: It’s okay to read Charles Krauthammer this week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest Post by Morbo<\/a><\/p>\n

About twice a year, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer writes a piece that actually makes sense. One ran last week. It is about “intelligent design” and is worth a look<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Krauthammer called ID “today’s tarted-up version of creationism.” It’s a good line, and I wish I had thought of it. <\/p>\n

As I read the rest of the column, I kept waiting for Krauthammer to insert some snarky attack on liberals, perhaps something like, “As everyone knows, Bill Clinton is a scumbag, Hillary Clinton is a conniving, power-mad hell hag and Al Gore is clinically insane. But none of this means that intelligent design makes any sense.”<\/p>\n

He did not do so. Instead he wrote:<\/p>\n

How ridiculous to make evolution the enemy of God. What could be more elegant, more simple, more brilliant, more economical, more creative, indeed more divine than a planet with millions of life forms, distinct and yet interactive, all ultimately derived from accumulated variations in a single double-stranded molecule, pliable and fecund enough to give us mollusks and mice, Newton and Einstein? Even if it did give us the Kansas State Board of Education, too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nicely stated. Check out the column<\/a> now because by next week whatever medication Krauthammer is on will undoubtedly have worn off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guest Post by Morbo About twice a year, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer writes a piece that actually makes sense. One ran last week. It is about “intelligent design” and is worth a look. Krauthammer called ID “today’s tarted-up version of creationism.” It’s a good line, and I wish I had thought of it. As I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}