{"id":2172,"date":"2005-04-22T14:09:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-22T14:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2172"},"modified":"2018-06-29T15:21:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T20:21:33","slug":"2172","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/22\/2172\/","title":{"rendered":"The Other Creationism vs. Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/national\/AP-Scotus-International-Law.html?oref=login\" target=\"_new\">O&#8217;Connor Dismisses Ado Over Int&#8217;l Law<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>O&#8217;Connor, a Reagan appointee, participated in a lively one-hour discussion at the National Archives with Justices Antonin Scalia and Stephen G. Breyer. She said if there is no controlling U.S. precedent or the viewpoint of states is unsettled, &#8220;of course we look at foreign law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is much ado about nothing,&#8221; she said in response to a question by moderator Tim Russert of NBC. &#8220;Our Constitution is one that evolves. What&#8217;s the best way to know? State legislatures &#8212; but it doesn&#8217;t hurt to know what other countries are doing.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Our constitution has a mechanism in it for evolution.  It&#8217;s the amendment process.<\/p>\n<p>Any other evolution, a la reading the penumbras, emanations, and secret codes inherent in interpreting the rights derived from reading the third letter after every punctuation mark isn&#8217;t constitutional evolution.  It&#8217;s judicial creationism.<\/p>\n<p>(Link seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2005\/04\/not-incredibly-outrageous.html\" target=\"_new\">Althouse<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O&#8217;Connor Dismisses Ado Over Int&#8217;l Law: O&#8217;Connor, a Reagan appointee, participated in a lively one-hour discussion at the National Archives with Justices Antonin Scalia and Stephen G. Breyer. She said if there is no controlling U.S. precedent or the viewpoint of states is unsettled, &#8220;of course we look at foreign law.&#8221; &#8220;This is much ado [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20273,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172\/revisions\/20273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}