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...
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Posted on April 3, 2008 3:21 PM • 41 Comments •
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,...
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Posted on June 27, 2007 8:10 AM • 36 Comments •
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...
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Posted on June 22, 2007 3:11 PM • 19 Comments •
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...
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Posted on March 29, 2007 8:09 PM • 20 Comments •
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...
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Posted on March 22, 2007 9:53 PM • 25 Comments •
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....
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Posted on March 10, 2007 3:54 PM • 9 Comments •
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...
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Posted on February 24, 2007 3:29 PM • 62 Comments •
I haven't taken a look at Uncommon Descent in a while; seeing the same nonsense get endlessly rehashed, seeing anyone who dares to express disagreement with the moderators get banned, well, it gets old. But then... Last week, DaveScott...
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Posted on February 5, 2007 11:30 AM • 56 Comments •
Over at Dispatches, Ed Brayton has been shredding my old friend Sal Cordova. Ed does a great job arguing that intelligent design is a PR campaign, and not a field of scientific research. Ed does a fine job with the...
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Posted on January 3, 2007 1:20 PM • 338 Comments •
Being a Nice Jewish BoyTM, Christmas is one of the most boring days of the entire year. So yesterday, I was sitting with my laptop, looking for something interesting to read. I try to regularly read the Panda's Thumb, but...
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Posted on December 26, 2006 12:38 PM • 13 Comments •
Yesterday at Pharyngula, PZ posted a description of his favorite signaling pathway in developmental biology, the Notch system. Notch is a cellular system for selecting one cell from a collection of essentially indistinguishable cells, so that that one cell can...
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Posted on December 5, 2006 12:21 PM • 22 Comments •
In my ongoing search for bad math, I periodically check out Uncommon Descent, which is Bill Dembski's blog dedicated to babbling about intelligent design. I went to check them today, and wow did I hit the jackpot. Dembski doesn't want...
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Posted on November 16, 2006 4:32 PM • 29 Comments •
