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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 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 • 27 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
Bad from the Bad Ideas Blog sent me a link to some clips from Ben Stein's new Magnum Opus, "Expelled". I went and took a look. Randomly, I picked one that looked like a clip from the movie rather than...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 3:21 PM • 41 Comments •
Category: intelligent design
In light of my recent demolition of a purported improvement on the second law of thermodynamics, an alert reader sent me a link to this really boneheaded piece of work at Uncommon Descent by Granville Sewell. Sewell is, yet again,...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 8:10 AM • 36 Comments •
Category: intelligent design
PZ wrote about the latest nonsense from IDiot George Gilder. In this interview, Gilder tries to make some really horrible arguments about how everything is really hierarchical, and he uses "information theory, computer science, and network theory" as examples. I...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 3:11 PM • 19 Comments •
Category: bad math
So over at the DI whiners blog, Egnor is, once again, trying to pretend that he's actually making a case for why evolution is irrelevant to antibiotic resistance. It's really getting silly; he repeats the same nonsense over and...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 8:09 PM • 20 Comments •
Category: intelligent design
As usual, Casey Luskin over at DI's media complaints division is playing games, misrepresenting people's words in order to claim that that they're misrepresenting IDists words. Nothing like the pot calling the kettle black, eh? This time, he's accusing...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 9:53 PM • 25 Comments •
Category: intelligent design
This isn't really math, but I can't resist commenting on it. I was looking at Evolution News and Views, which is yet another "news" site run by the Discovery Institute, because the illustrious Dr. Egnor had an article there....
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 3:54 PM • 9 Comments •
Category: intelligent design
PZ has already commented on this, but I thought that I'd throw in my two cents. A surgeon, Dr. Michael Egnor, posted a bunch of comments on a Time magazine blog that was criticizing ID. Dr. Egnor's response to...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 3:29 PM • 62 Comments •
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