{"id":1284,"date":"2007-02-17T08:43:10","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T19:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/1284"},"modified":"2007-02-17T12:11:34","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T23:11:34","slug":"1284","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/1284","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summary of Sir Harry Kroto&#8217;s talk <em>Science, Society and Sustainability<\/em>, given this past Thursday at the St James: &#8220;religion is very bad, philosophy is useless, politicians are evil, science is good, scientists are very good, scientists with a faith (except Buddhism) are schizophrenic, reason is good, doubt is good, we&#8217;re running out of oil, climate change might be anthropogenic, more and better science will solve our problems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnpcb.org\/esv\/search\/?q=is+2%3A2-5\">Isaiah 2:2&ndash;5<\/a> is part of the Saturday morning service in the NZPB. It&#8217;s the swords &#038; plowshears bit. Reading it I thought the church is the people who are walking in the light of the peacemaking god who let us kill him so that we wouldn&#8217;t have to kill each other any more. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary of Sir Harry Kroto&#8217;s talk Science, Society and Sustainability, given this past Thursday at the St James: &#8220;religion is very bad, philosophy is useless, politicians are evil, science is good, scientists are very good, scientists with a faith (except Buddhism) are schizophrenic, reason is good, doubt is good, we&#8217;re running out of oil, climate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}