Abram 17 Aug 2009 Abram either wake up or go to bed. You’re sleepwalking with a delirious head. You were programmed a long, long, long time ago Your stories are old, old and your acclimation is slow. Not much of what you say makes any sense. Cook up some myths, then ask for obedience. Even though you mean well, well most of the time, You’ve aided delusion and created bias in our minds. Go to sleep. [José González, “Abram”, from the In Our Nature album, 2007] Creationism and Intelligent Design
Creationism and Intelligent Design Dembski can’t weasel out of this one 19 Mar 2009 Ian Musgrave has a brilliant post showing that Dembski’s revisiting of the old creationist canard that Dawkins’ 1984 Weasel program, designed to show that random variation and selective retention can “evolve” a target phrase, in this case Shakespeare’s “Methinks it is a weasel” (oops; I nearly had my own mutation… Read More
Creationism and Intelligent Design Evolution and its rivals – special issue of Synthese 16 Dec 2010 A special issue of the philosophical journal Synthese covers the topic “Evolution and its rivals”. It is open access until the end of this month, so you can get the papers now. The major discussions centre around intelligent design, which is the nearest to intellectual adequacy that creationism gets. There… Read More
Creationism and Intelligent Design Another ID knockdown, by Sarkar 8 Jun 200918 Sep 2017 Intelligent design (ID) is perhaps the most widely-discussed non-idea of all time. There seem to be three reasons why real scholars discuss it: 1. It is historically an idea that had influence on intellectual history, up to, say, 1860 2. It is an idea that needs to be discussed because… Read More
Can I slip in my all time fav. performer. His voice just blows me away everytime. An “immaculate confection” “Well its got to be a chocolate jesus Good enough for me Got to be a chocolate jesus Good enough for me” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wfamPW3Eaw