{"id":34232,"date":"2021-09-07T16:41:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T21:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=34232"},"modified":"2021-09-07T16:41:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T21:41:23","slug":"word-of-the-day-725","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/09\/07\/word-of-the-day-725\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adduce<\/em>:<\/p>\n

to give reasons why you think something is true:
\nNone of the evidence adduced in court was conclusive. [Cambridge Dictionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Noted in “Geocentric in Ghana: An Antiscience Lawsuit<\/em><\/a>,” Glenn Branch, Skeptical Inquirer<\/strong><\/em> (September\/October 2021, paywall?):<\/p>\n

The bulk of the evidence [Johnson] Anane adduces against the motion of Earth and evolution is scriptural in nature: his motion teems with chapter-and-verse references to the Bible, although he ecumenically refers to the Qur\u2019an once and the Bhagavad-Gita twice. A few sophistical arguments are also offered: for example, Anane quotes one dictionary as defining a planet as \u201ca very round object in space\u201d and another as defining space as the \u201cregion beyond the earth[\u2019s] atmosphere,\u201d triumphantly concluding that Earth is not a planet. Conspicuously lacking is any reference to scientific evidence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I like the guy’s educational background:<\/p>\n

… a lecturer in the Department of Wood Technology\u2014which apparently specializes in carpentry, joinery, and furniture design and construction\u2014at Sunyani Technical University. He is listed on the university\u2019s website as having a bachelor of science degree in wood technology and management.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Adduce: to give reasons why you think something is true: None of the evidence adduced in court was conclusive. [Cambridge Dictionary] Noted in “Geocentric in Ghana: An Antiscience Lawsuit,” Glenn Branch, Skeptical Inquirer (September\/October 2021, paywall?): The bulk of the evidence [Johnson] Anane adduces against the motion of Earth and \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34233,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34232\/revisions\/34233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}