Informational caloric 7 Jul 2009 A comment on Antievolution.org, by didymos, about ID proponents who seem to think that information is some sort of semantic phlogiston or computational caloric. They aren’t the only ones, of course, but it’s a great line. Creationism and Intelligent Design
Accommodationism Degrees of religion 8 Feb 201420 Feb 2014 Larry Moran quotes Jason Rosenhouse disputing Phil Plait: So, after all, that, let us return to Plait’s argument. He tells us that the problem is too many people perceiving evolution as a threat to their religious beliefs. Indeed, but why do they perceive it that way? Is it a failure of… Read More
Biology Darwin was not badly received by the church 26 Nov 2009 Robert J. Berry is a geneticist at University College London. He is also an evangelical Christian and has written a number of works on the compatibility of religion (his kind, anyway) and evolution. He has a quite accurate letter in today’s Nature. Since that is behind a paywall, I have… Read More
Creationism and Intelligent Design Intelligent Design Explained 24 Nov 2009 What do you call people who keep hearing things that don’t happen? Schizophrenics, of course. ID is schizophrenic. That they keep hearing explosions that don’t happen is merely a sign they are on the side of the terrorists. Hat tip for the “Sound of” link to J-Dog. Read More