{"id":163,"date":"2009-07-15T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/kingdomofpriests\/2009\/07\/boston-globe-den-of-theocracy.html"},"modified":"2009-07-15T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T08:00:00","slug":"boston-globe-den-of-theocracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kingdomofpriests\/2009\/07\/boston-globe-den-of-theocracy.html","title":{"rendered":"Boston Globe, Den of Theocracy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There must be a nest of theocrats&nbsp;over at the&nbsp;<i>Boston Globe,&nbsp;<\/i>ready to spring Christianist rule on us all. Someone call Andrew Sullivan! On today&#8217;s op-ed page they publish Stephen C. Meyer who argues that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/editorial_opinion\/oped\/articles\/2009\/07\/15\/jeffersons_support_for_intelligent_design\/\">if you like the Declaration of Independence, you have intelligent design to thank<\/a>. Thomas <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/kingdomofpriests\/2009\/06\/thomas-jefferson-intelligent-design-advocate.html\">Jefferson, how could you?<\/a> Oh! The horror, the horror.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Key quote:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p>DNA functions like a software program. We know that software comes from programmers. Information &#8212; whether inscribed in hieroglyphics, written in a book, or encoded in a radio signal &#8212; always arises from an intelligent source. So the discovery of digital code in DNA provides a strong scientific reason for concluding that the information in DNA also had an intelligent source.<\/p>\n<p>Design is an inference from biological data, not a deduction from religious authority. [Thomas] Jefferson said just that, and based his political thinking on it. The evidence for what he presciently called &#8220;Nature&#8217;s God&#8221; is stronger than ever. Our nation&#8217;s existence, with its guarantee to protect each person&#8217;s &#8220;inalienable rights,&#8221; may be counted among the fruits of Jefferson&#8217;s belief in intelligent design.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/editorial_opinion\/oped\/articles\/2009\/07\/15\/jeffersons_support_for_intelligent_design\/\">and weep<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There must be a nest of theocrats&nbsp;over at the&nbsp;Boston Globe,&nbsp;ready to spring Christianist rule on us all. Someone call Andrew Sullivan! On today&#8217;s op-ed page they publish Stephen C. Meyer who argues that if you like the Declaration of Independence, you have intelligent design to thank. Thomas Jefferson, how could you? Oh! 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