The Egnor challenge, day 6: In which I give in and join the crowd...

While the whole Dr. Egnor affair is disturbing, there is a bit of fascination with just how the denial of truth (and perhaps deliberate lies) drags one so far into the depths. It is a feedback system that perhaps begins with a small turbulence in their religious faith that they choose to mend by denying a bit of truth. Then the whole thing spins out of control and into lunacy.

I wonder how he can argue that evolution is not used in medecine yet it is used in Computer engineering

COEN 432 Applied Genetic and
Evolutionary Systems (3 credits)
Prerequisite: COEN 352 or COMP 352. Motivation
for the use of Genetic Algorithms (GAs). Theory:
the Schema Theorem, the Kâarmed Bandit, the
Building Block Hypothesis, the Idealized GA and
comparison of GAs. Methodology: representation,
fitness and selection, crossover and mutation,
parameterization and constraints, implementation.
Applications: function optimization, evolving computer
programs, optimizing a pattern recognizer,
system modelling. Identification of classes of
problems suitable for the use of GAs. Lectures:
three hours per week.

applied evolution eat your heart out:p, after all if its good enough to be applicable in computer systems then arguably it must be of some use in medecine.

from http://registrar.concordia.ca/calendar/pdf/sec71.60.pdf

I'm hearing "Michael Egnor, Michael Egnor" sung by cartoon mice to the tune of "Cinderelly, Cinderelly"... perhaps the mice are making him a dress for the ball. Perhaps they're writing the Creationist arguments he's spouting.

Hey, look! It worked!

I now feel compelled to post this in an Egnor thread.