{"id":191,"date":"2006-04-14T07:16:18","date_gmt":"2006-04-14T07:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/04\/14\/and-the-problem-is-what-exactl\/"},"modified":"2006-04-14T07:16:18","modified_gmt":"2006-04-14T07:16:18","slug":"and-the-problem-is-what-exactl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/04\/14\/and-the-problem-is-what-exactl\/","title":{"rendered":"And the Problem is… What, Exactly?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The<\/a> usual<\/a> suspects<\/a> are all upset about John Barrow’s crack about Richard Dawkins<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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When Selfish Gene<\/cite> author Richard Dawkins challenged physicist John Barrow on his formulation of the constants of nature at last summer’s Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellowship lectures, Barrow laughed and said, “You have a problem with these ideas, Richard, because you’re not really a scientist. You’re a biologist.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I don’t quite understand the problem, here. I mean, he’s right– stamp collectors, the lot of ’em…<\/p>\n

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Consider this a sort of poor man’s Casual Friday psych experiment– I’m curious as to whether the death of sarcasm can be quantified by the number of people who post angry comments without reading the extended entry.<\/p>\n

Of course this is an asinine thing to say. I have very little use for Dawkins, so I’m not terribly upset to see someone take cheap shots at him, but going on to say that biology as a whole is stuck in the 1800’s is just… well, the arrogance would make Lord Rutherford himself hesitate.<\/p>\n

I don’t really have a larger point to make, here. I just couldn’t resist a poke at the biologists. It’s been a very long week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The usual suspects are all upset about John Barrow’s crack about Richard Dawkins: When Selfish Gene author Richard Dawkins challenged physicist John Barrow on his formulation of the constants of nature at last summer’s Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellowship lectures, Barrow laughed and said, “You have a problem with these ideas, Richard, because you’re not really a… Continue reading And the Problem is… What, Exactly?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-physics","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}