{"id":154,"date":"2005-09-26T22:50:21","date_gmt":"2005-09-27T02:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/26\/theory\/"},"modified":"2006-12-01T11:57:26","modified_gmt":"2006-12-01T15:57:26","slug":"theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/26\/theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Theory?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Wendy and I were eating breakfast this morning, we flipped the television on and went to the news channel.  For weeks now, it has been non-stop Hurricane footage.  I don&#8217;t want to sound callous or anything, but I can only take so much footage of houses blown to pieces by the wind, I got the idea a long time ago&#8230; it&#8217;s terrible.  Our damn media just beats these kinds of stories to death!<\/p>\n<p>Anyhoo, I started flipping through the stations and something on the Science Channel caught our eye.  The program was about the importance of the moon to our planet.  Most of it was very informative but then they got to the part regarding how the moon came to &#8220;Be&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>They go into this very detailed explanation of how &#8220;Alpha-1&#8221; Rock collided with &#8220;Theta-z&#8221; Rock&#8230; rebounded off &#8220;Gamma-Delta&#8221; and wow&#8230; Instant moon!  I generally don&#8217;t have a problem with theories and hypothesis as long as it&#8217;s presented as such.  This sh&#8230;tuff however, was being presented as fact.<\/p>\n<p>We know that Dinosaurs once existed because we have some bones we dig up on occasion and assemble like a jigsaw puzzle.  Darwin had a Theory of Evolution that you may or may not agree with but at least he had some empirical evidence to support his hypothesis.  Einstein had a Theory of Relativity backed up by some good data and Christopher Columbus proved his theory by circum-navigating the globe.<\/p>\n<p>I wanna know how folks can talk in a matter of fact way about an event that may or may not have happened billions of years ago.  Why would anyone try to even venture a guess?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Wendy and I were eating breakfast this morning, we flipped the television on and went to the news channel. For weeks now, it has been non-stop Hurricane footage. I don&#8217;t want to sound callous or anything, but I can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/26\/theory\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}