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Disco Strikes Out Again: Casey Luskin, Kitzmiller, and New Information

Category: intelligent design

For a lot of people, I seem to have become the go-to blogger for information theory stuff. I really don't deserve it: Jeff Shallit at Recursivity knows a whole lot more than I do. But I do my best....

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ID Garbage: CSI as Non-Computability

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...

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Dembski Stoops Even Lower: Legal Threats to Silence a Critic

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...

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Berlinski - still pompous, still wrong.

Category: intelligent design

An anonymous tipster sent me a note to let me know that on one of the Disco Institute's sites, my old pal David Berlinski has been arguing that all sorts of famous mathematicians were really anti-evolution. I've written about...

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Bill Dembski Weasels Under Even My Low Expectations

Category: intelligent design

A brief disclaimer before I start. I do not read Uncommon Descent. I didn't check it before writing my post yesterday. So I didn't know about the content of Dembski's post there that I'm about to write about, until...

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Disco Goes Digital

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...

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Dembski Responds

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...

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Dembski's Latest: "Life's Conservation Law", and why it's stupid

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...

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Sloppy Arguments about Mutation Rates

Category: intelligent design

My friend Razib, who is one of my fellow ScienceBloggers sent me a link to an interest attempt by creationist at arguing why evolution can't possibly work. I say interesting, because it's at least a little bit unusual in...

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Idiotic Gitt: AiG and Bad Information Theory (classic repost)

Category: intelligent design

I'm away on vacation this week, taking my kids to Disney World. Since I'm not likely to have time to write while I'm away, I'm taking the opportunity to re-run some old classic posts which were first posted in the...

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