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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
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 • 45 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: 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 •
Category: information theory
Since my post a couple of weeks ago about NASA and the antenna evolution experiment, I've been meaning to write a followup. In both comments and private emails, I've gotten a number of interesting questions about the idea of...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 11:49 AM • 23 Comments •
Category: intelligent design
It's always amusing to wander over to the Discovery Institute's blogs, and see what kind of nonsense they're spouting today. So, today, as I'm feeling like steamed crap, I took a wander over. And what did I find? High...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 2:44 PM • 63 Comments •
Category: intelligent design
So I hear, via the Panda's Thumb, that Uncommon Descent has a new poster. And he's off to a rollicking good start, with a post explaining why Christians who accept the fact of evolution are incoherent and deluded. (As...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 11:53 AM • 50 Comments •
Category: 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...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 1:15 PM • 55 Comments •
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