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
Creationism and Intelligent Design Paper withdrawn from Synthese 30 Apr 2011 Massimo Pigliucci, head of the Philosophy Program at City University of New York, and Raphael Scholl from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bern, have withdrawn a paper from Synthese. Here, with their permission, is the text of the letter they sent to the editors in chief: To… Read More
Creationism and Intelligent Design Intelligent designoids are unsure about me 27 Jan 2011 Normally I wouldn’t link to these guys, but I’m having a kind of odd week with the ID crowd. On the one hand the ever reliable Casey Luskin has declared I am condescending for suggesting we teach science free of religious overtones to young children (but Kelly Smith is more… Read More
Creationism and Intelligent Design A huff at the Huffington Post 10 Aug 2009 Barret Brown has a piece on Intelligent Design up at the Huffington Post (which, so long as you ignore the “health” writers, is often very interesting). Read the comments too: Wesley Elsberry has some good things to say, among others. Read More