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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
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....
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 11:32 AM • 48 Comments •
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: 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...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 10:05 PM • 25 Comments •
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...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 9:20 AM • 47 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: 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...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 9:54 PM • 23 Comments •
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...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 8:25 AM • 17 Comments •
casaubon's book 02.13.2012
denialism blog 02.13.2012
respectful insolence 02.13.2012
evolutionblog 02.12.2012
starts with a bang! 02.11.2012
