{"id":343225,"date":"2010-02-20T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T15:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=10333"},"modified":"2010-02-20T10:00:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T15:00:18","slug":"ark-of-descent-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/343225","title":{"rendered":"Ark of descent | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently the UK paper The Guardian <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/2010\/jan\/01\/noahs-ark-was-circular\">posted an article<\/a> stating &#8212; without a shred of skepticism &#8212; that Noah&#8217;s Ark may have been round. <\/p>\n<p>Sigh. OK, fine. But it gets better.<\/p>\n<p>The Institute for Creation Research &#8212; given just their name, you might guess they haven&#8217;t found a scientific fact they couldn&#8217;t spin, fold, or mutilate&#8230; and you&#8217;d be right &#8212; <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.icr.org\/article\/5158\/\">claims the article is wrong<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p><em>Because a round ark makes no sense.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>BANG!<\/p>\n<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>\n<p><em>[Update: Without any comment, <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2010\/02\/19\/tech\/main6223928.shtml?tag=cbsnewsSectionContent.13\">I&#8217;ll just add this link here<\/a>. The connection should be obvious enough.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/8b902eb4VMdJxeB7d-8kpijJGTQ\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/8b902eb4VMdJxeB7d-8kpijJGTQ\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/8b902eb4VMdJxeB7d-8kpijJGTQ\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/8b902eb4VMdJxeB7d-8kpijJGTQ\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/ZYoiIKO-22M\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/0gyhPP1FW-M\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently the UK paper The Guardian posted an article stating &#8212; without a shred of skepticism &#8212; that Noah&#8217;s Ark may have been round. Sigh. OK, fine. But it gets better. The Institute for Creation Research &#8212; given just their name, you might guess they haven&#8217;t found a scientific fact they couldn&#8217;t spin, fold, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}