Ray Comfort, plagiarist 5 Nov 2009 Remember Ray Comfort’s version of the Origin? Well it seems that while the final version is not missing chapters, the introduction is missing something else. Originality. AIGBusted has found that he has plagiarised at least some of it. Colour me unsurprised. Creationism and Intelligent Design
Creationism and Intelligent Design Closet Darwinism, and definitions 12 Apr 201412 Apr 2014 Every so often, somebody makes the case that “Darwinism”, “Darwinist” and “Darwinian”, being the generic noun, the individual term, and the adjective of Darwin’s name and therefore (supposedly) theory, are dead terms that cause nothing but harm (see Scott and Branch 2009). Larry Moran has just made this very argument,… Read More
Creationism and Intelligent Design Are creationists rational? 28 Apr 2009 My Synthese essay has finally been published [paywall], in which I argue that on the basis of the more realistic notion of rationality devised by Herbert Simon, called “bounded rationality”, certain heuristics are liable to lead people to rationally choose to believe in creationism under the right conditions. It’s a… Read More