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. Creationism and Intelligent Design
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 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 Lynch on the misuse of history by creationists 6 Nov 2009 John Lynch bells the cat in the History of Science Society Newsletter, and you can read it here. He points out the fundamental dishonesty of ID-“historians” who try to smear evolutionary biology by linking it with Hitler. For some inexplicable reason he fails to link this to a history of… Read More
I would LOVE to take credit, but CARLSONJOK, is the one! He’s some crazed cowboy in OK that is actually a Friend of Charles Darwin, with a mind like a steel trap and a strange liking for LOL Catz.