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Hiding the rise
February 23rd, 2010 by Joel
Alternative title: The complete idiot’s guide to cherrypicking.
Willis Eschenbach (of Darwin Zero fame) has a post on Watt’s Up With That concerning the homogenisation process in Anchorage and Matanuska (both in Alaska). Matanuska was chosen for being close to Anchorage. But why start in Anchorage? No explanation is given. Something about this smells like cherrypicking [...]
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Is something rotten in Alaska?
February 2nd, 2010 by Joel
Via an open thread on Deltoid, I discovered a link to this article by E.M. Smith (reposted on Watt’s Up With That), looking at an odd map he’d managed to generate using a temperate map generator on the NASA GISS site. The map generator’s pretty fun to play with.
A map of the temperate anomalies can [...]
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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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C is for creationist, that’s good enough for Denyse
May 14th, 2009 by Joel
Less than a month after sharing with us all an HIV denialist’s take on Darwin and evolution, Denyse O’Leary continues to spelunk further and further into the depths of evolution denialism.
Now she’s interviewing Adnan Oktar, a.k.a. Harun “fishing lure” Yahya. I think his responses basically speak for themselves.
What’s next? Updates on Ray Comfort’s search for [...]
Tags: Creationism
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