{"id":630730,"date":"2010-01-14T12:22:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T17:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/intersection\/?p=5962"},"modified":"2010-01-14T12:22:43","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T17:22:43","slug":"the-wonderful-thing-about-science-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/630730","title":{"rendered":"The Wonderful Thing About Science? | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/154\/\">xkcd<\/a> comic has hit my inbox a few times from readers and was recently <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/intersection\/2010\/01\/11\/orzel-nails-it-on-science-and-religion\/#comment-45527\">mentioned<\/a> in comments on <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/intersection\/2010\/01\/11\/orzel-nails-it-on-science-and-religion\/#comment-45527\">Chris&#8217; post<\/a> as well. It highlights an important distinction about where certain religious beliefs matter&#8211;and where they do not. The tricky part is figuring out what to do when these areas collide:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5961\" title=\"beliefs\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/intersection\/files\/2010\/01\/beliefs.jpg?resize=600%2C789\" alt=\"beliefs\" width=\"600\" height=\"789\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/bDeORKFo3S-yniaioU4ILp_nrLM\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/bDeORKFo3S-yniaioU4ILp_nrLM\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/bDeORKFo3S-yniaioU4ILp_nrLM\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/bDeORKFo3S-yniaioU4ILp_nrLM\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/F71vRfIUJ5s\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This xkcd comic has hit my inbox a few times from readers and was recently mentioned in comments on Chris&#8217; post as well. It highlights an important distinction about where certain religious beliefs matter&#8211;and where they do not. The tricky part is figuring out what to do when these areas collide:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2E54","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}