Egnorance
goodmath | December 15, 2008 As you've probably heard from other ScienceBlogger's, that paragon of
arrogant ignorance, Dr. Michael Egnor, is back at it again - and he's abusing
the language of logic in a way that really frustrates me. I've written
about this before, but the general topic recently came up in comments, so
I thought I'd bump it up to the top, along with another slap aimed at Egnor.
For those who don't know, Dr. Egnor is a brain surgeon at SUNY Stonybrook - an excellent school, and Dr. Egnor is, from all information I've heard, an outstanding surgeon. In his free time, he blogs for the Discovery Institute…
goodmath | March 10, 2008 I'm jumping into this late, and it's at least somewhat off topic for this
blog, although I'll try to pull a few mathematical metaphors into it. But Michael
Egnor, that paragon of creationist stupidity, is back babbling about evolution and
bacterial antibiotic resistance. This is a subject which is very personal to me:
my father died almost a year ago - basically from an antibiotic resistant infection.
Since Mike at the Questionable Authority and Mike at Mike the Mad Biologist already ripped Egnor to shreds, I'm not going to bother with the whole thing; I'm just going to focus on one…
goodmath | April 14, 2007 Michael Egnor is at it again. The guy is pretty much the energizer bunny of anti-evolution bullshit. This time, he's purportedly refuting an article by Dr. Steven Novella, a Yale professor of neurology.
So, why am I butting my nose in to a discussion between two doctors? For two reasons:
First, because once again, Egnor pulls out his gibberish about information theory - and that's definitely my turf.
Second, because ultimately, the argument that Dr. Egnor makes comes back to the silly way that he reduces to evolution to a tautology. As I've discussed several times before, Dr. Egnor…
goodmath | April 4, 2007 Apparently, Michael Egnor just can't get enough of making himself look like an idiot. His latest screed is an attack on me, for criticizing his dismissal of evolution as a tautology.
My observation that "Natural Selection" is a tautology, and therefore useless to modern medicine, seems to have set off quite a few Darwinists. Prominent Darwinist blogger Mark Chu-Carroll took me to task here, and comes up with an approach that he believes gets "Natural Selection" off the tautological hook: he asserts that all scientific theories are reducible to tautologies! Mark writes:
And this brings…