Archive for the ‘Creationism’ Category
The Quest to Scrape the Lowest Barrel
January 8th, 2010 by Joel
GilDodgen, quoting Pierre-Paul Grassé (in defense of Pierre-Paul Grassé: I’ve only found this quote in creationist screeds, it may have been manipulated):
What gambler would be crazy enough to play roulette with random evolution? The probability of dust carried by the wind reproducing Durer’s “Melancholia” is less infinitesimal than the probability of copy errors in the [...]
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Is the party over?
September 20th, 2009 by Joel
#include <stdio.h>
int main(){
printf("METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL\n");
}
I’ve spent most of this year doing an honours degree studying genetic algorithms. As such, I’ve found reading the best and brightest ID proponent’s attempts to understand the genetic algorithm equivalent of a “Hello World” program – a simple string evolver, with no crossover and only one [...]
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Throwing modus tollens around like it was confetti
September 13th, 2009 by Joel
Cornelius Hunter, is, as usual, ridiculous, most recently in his commentary on a review of TGSOE.
After all, there are no fossil rabbits in the ancient strata. That’s right, no rabbits before the Cambrian era. Astonishing, evolution must be true.
For a start, the Precambrian rabbits are an example: anything so out of place would falsify evolution. [...]
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Designed for hillarity
August 9th, 2009 by Joel
Baron Scarpia has found William Dembski’s teaching website, and it certainly provides some enthralling reading.
There are, for example, the course requirements for studying intelligent design, which include a 3000-word essay on “the theological significance of intelligent design” and at least 10 posts on “hostile” websites defending ID. The doctorate-level course doesn’t require defending ID on [...]
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