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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
An alert reader pointed me at a recent post over at Uncommon Descent by a guy who calls himself "niwrad", which argues (among other things) that life is non-computable. In fact, it basically tries to use computability as the...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 10:43 AM • 31 Comments •
Category: intelligent design
For those who have slightly better memory of recent events than an average gerbil, you'll surely remember that not too long ago, the Intelligent Design folks, with the help of Ben Stein, put together a whole movie about how...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 11:22 AM • 35 Comments •
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 • 80 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 • 34 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 • 81 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 • 61 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 •
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