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Mark Chu-Carroll (aka MarkCC) is a PhD Computer Scientist, who works for Google as a Software Engineer. My professional interests center on programming languages and tools, and how to improve the languages and tools that are used for building complex software systems.
Category: intelligent design
Over at Uncommon Descent, Dembski has responded to my critique of his paper with Marks. In classic Dembski style, he ignores the substance of my critique, and resorts to quote-mining. In my previous post, I included a summary of...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 2:17 PM • 76 Comments •
Category: Debunking Creationism
So. William Dembski, the supposed "Isaac Newton of Information Theory" has a new paper out with co-author Robert Marks. Since I've written about Dembski's bad IT numerous times in the past, I've been getting email from readers wanting me...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 2:21 PM • 90 Comments •
Category: Debunking Creationism
As I've mentioned before, I get lots of email from all sorts of people. Lots of it is interesting, and lots of it is stupid. This morning, when I was checking my mail, I found an email from a...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 11:00 AM • 30 Comments •
Category: bad physics
One of the many great things about my readers is how you folks keep me up to date with any new crap that springs up, so that I don't need to spend so much time hunting down the real...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 7:15 PM • 26 Comments •
Category: Debunking Creationism
Someone sent me some questions about information theory; or actually, about some questions raised by a bozo creationist arguing about information theory. But the issues raised are interesting. So while I'm nominally snarking at a clueless creationist, I'm really...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 11:17 AM • 62 Comments •
Category: Debunking Creationism
Someone sent me another stupid Jewish article. It's still not the wonderful relativity denial that I lost, but it's pretty delicious as stupidity goes. This time it comes from Chabad. For those who aren't familiar with it, Chabad is...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 8:32 AM • 35 Comments •
Category: Debunking Creationism
Once again, you, my readers, have come through with some really high-grade crackpottery. This one was actually sent to me by its author, but I didn't really look at it until several readers sent me the same link because...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 2:35 PM • 21 Comments •
Category: Debunking Creationism
I've been sent Yet Another Proof of God. This one goes to rather a lot of trouble to appear to be mathematical. I thought that it would be fun to rip it apart. For a change, this one is...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 7:39 PM • 62 Comments •
Category: Debunking Creationism
A few weeks ago, I received an email about a new book, "The Faith Equation", by Marvin Bittinger. Bittinger is an author of math textbooks - including, I think, my first calculus text. The book is supposed to be...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 10:06 PM • 31 Comments •
Category: Debunking Creationism
Much to my professional shame, PZ recently pointed out David Plaisted, a Computer Science professor at the University of North Carolina, who has an anti-evolution screed on his university website. Worse, it's typical creationist drivel, which anyone with half...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 10:11 PM • 31 Comments •
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