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 there – I typed “methings”), is a load of old cobbler’s. Of course we expect nothing less from Ian*, and nothing better from Dembksi. * But my title is better than his. Creationism and Intelligent Design Evolution Humor
Evolution Ardi rules 2 Oct 2009 Some conclusions about Ardipithecus ramidus : 1. It may be a human ancestor or it may not. We do not know. 2. It had relatively little sexual dimorphism like humans. 3. It walked on two legs, but not well, and probably lived in woodlands. 4. It ate fruit and some… Read More
Evolution Notre Dame conference – the washup 3 Nov 2009 It’s been a great conference. Simon Conway Morris was fun (but wrong! It’s OK, he says I am too). Peter Bowler’s talk on “what-if history” – what if Darwin had drowned on the Beagle? was actually interesting and raised some nice points about both the nature of the theory of… Read More