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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: Debunking Creationism
I was planning on ignoring this one, but tons of readers have been writing to me about the latest inanity spouting from the keyboard of Discovery Institute's flunky, Denise O'Leary. Here's what she had to say: Even though I...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 3:54 PM • 77 Comments •
Category: Debunking Creationism
First, a quick status note: the blog has been really slow lately because I fell behind schedule on my book, and I've been putting all of my free time into catching up. I'm finally pretty much caught up, so...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 4:14 PM • 32 Comments •
Category: Debunking Creationism
As lots of you have heard, William Dembski and Robert Marks just had a paper published in an IEEE journal. In the last couple of days, I've received about 30 copies of the paper in my email with requests...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 10:08 PM • 80 Comments •
Category: Debunking Creationism
It sometimes seems like every day, some "intelligent design" bozo comes out with another book rehashing the same-old crap. I usually ignore it. But this time, I felt like the promotional materials for one of the new books really...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 3:32 PM • 58 Comments •
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 • 83 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 • 93 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 • 33 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 • 27 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 •
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