intelligent design:
Granville Sewell, over at UD, has decided to pretend that he just discovered my earlier critique of his "though experiment" where he claims to simulate the universe. The reason that I say "pretend" is that Sewell originally edited the...
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Posted on February 24, 2008 1:15 PM • 54 Comments •
Astute readers will remember a couple of encounters I had with Sal Cordova from Uncommon Descent a few months ago (here, in the comments, and here). Not too long after that, Sal made a fairly big deal about the...
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Posted on December 10, 2007 9:04 PM • 96 Comments •
An alert reader pointed out that William Brookfield posted a response to my two part debunking of his argument for design based on a mangling of the second law of thermodynamics. I debated whether it was worth responding to;...
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Posted on November 27, 2007 5:16 PM • 17 Comments •
As of 2/24/2008, Sewell has just responded to this, pretending that he just noticed it. To make discussions easier to follow, I have responded with a new post here, and I would appreciate it if comments could be posted there,...
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Posted on September 26, 2007 4:23 PM • 56 Comments •
Both in comments, and via email, I've received numerous requests to take a look at the work of Dembski and Marks, published through Professor Marks's website. The site is called the "Evolutionary Informatics Laboratory". Before getting to the paper,...
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Posted on September 17, 2007 9:00 AM • 178 Comments •
Despite having written about it before, I still get a lot of questions about William Dembski's "No Free Lunch" (NFL) theorems. One message recently contained the question in a particularly interesting form, so I thought I'd take the opportunity...
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Posted on August 12, 2007 2:24 PM • 44 Comments •
Part two of our crackpot's babblings are actually more interesting in their way, because they touch on a fascinating mathematical issue, which, unfortunately, Mr. Brookfield is compeletely unable to understand: the Poincare recurrence theorem. Brookfield argues that the second...
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Posted on June 20, 2007 2:45 PM • 33 Comments •
As several of my fellow science-bloggers pointed out, William Dembski has written a post at Uncommon Descent extolling an "international coalition of non-religious ID scientists", and wondering how us nasty darwinists are going to deal with them. Alas for...
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Posted on June 19, 2007 10:52 AM • 34 Comments •
Apparently William Dembski, over at Uncommon Descent is not happy with my review of Behe's new book. He pulls out a rather pathetic bit of faux outrage: "Are there any anti-ID writings that the Panda's Thumb won't endorse?" The outrage...
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Posted on June 3, 2007 4:43 PM • 85 Comments •
I've gotten my hands on a review copy of Michael Behe's new book, "The Edge of Evolution". The shortest version of a review is: Bad science, bad math, and bad theology, all wrapped up in a pretty little package. As...
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Posted on May 31, 2007 12:24 PM • 250 Comments •
I debated about whether or not I should write this post. But as you can see, in the end, I overcame my better judgement, and so he we are. Over the weekend, PZ wrote a Pharyngula post about the...
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Posted on May 14, 2007 9:48 AM • 90 Comments •
This isn't math, but I felt like commenting anyway. That shining example of an Intelligent Design advocate, Dr. Michael Egnor, is back once again. And this time, his point, such as it is, is to basically fling insults at...
Posted on May 11, 2007 6:28 PM • 12 Comments •
An astute reader pointed me towards a monstrosity of pompous bogus math. It's an oldie, but I hadn't seen it before, and it was just referenced by my old buddy Sal Cordova in a thread on one of the...
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Posted on May 2, 2007 9:05 PM • 33 Comments •
When I'm bored, I'll periodically take a look at the blogs published by the bozos at the Discovery Institute. I can generally find something good for a laugh. So I was doing that tonight, and came across yet another...
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Posted on April 24, 2007 8:05 AM • 24 Comments •
So the Discovery Institute's most recent addition has chosen to reply to my post about tautologies. (Once again, I'm not linking to him; I will not willingly be a source of hits for the DI website when they're promoting...
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Posted on March 17, 2007 9:18 PM • 116 Comments •
Today's bit of basics is inspired by that bastion of shitheaded ignorance, Dr. Michael Egnor. In part of his latest screed (a podcast with Casey Luskin of the Discovery Institute), Egnor discusses antibiotic resistance, and along the way, asserts...
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Posted on March 14, 2007 11:29 AM • 73 Comments •
In my discussion with Sal Cordova in this post, one point came up which I thought was interesting, and worth taking the time to flesh out as a separate post. It's about the distinction between a Turing equivalent computing...
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Posted on January 5, 2007 1:08 PM • 40 Comments •
