Home, Sweet Home: Florida
We looked at a property last September that stood out as a candidate for a home purchase. It had a
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Rob Crowther, Again
Rob Crowther’s latest post over at the DI’s propaganda page is quite short. Darwin was wrong. Missing links still missing.
Read moreLuskin on Information: Part 0
Casey Luskin has decided to treat us to an agony in eight fits, wherein he will whine mightily concerning “information”.
Read moreRefreshing Data Storage
I have data on Compact Disks (CDs) from past projects. The technology was getting toward being affordable around 1996. CD
Read more“Signature in the Cell” Tampa: Part 3
Throughout the evening, Stephen Meyer kept repeating that we only know of “specified information” occurring because of an intelligent agent
Read more“Signature in the Cell” Tampa: Part 2
Michael Medved dismissed accusations that the IDC movement was disguised religion as a “big lie”. Elsewhere in his remarks, he
Read more“Signature in the Cell” Tampa: Part 1
I attended the “Signature in the Cell” “intelligent design” creationism (IDC) event last night in Tampa, Florida. This featured Stephen
Read moreStudents and the Apple iPad
Apple announced its iPad tablet computer today. The device seems to be mostly a large-screen iPod Touch. The intriguing aspects
Read moreConcern Trolling at the Mansfield News-Journal
A perfectly reasonable letter to the editor from Walter Kania elicited a response from Andrew Ricks with all the hallmarks
Read moreLeftovers: PE and Darwin
From about 1992 to around 2002, I was a frequent commenter on the Usenet talk.origins newsgroup, contributing several thousand posts
Read moreThe Addle-Patedness of David Klinghoffer
Does Beliefnet publish just anything? Exhibit A for the affirmative would be the post by David Klinghoffer titled The Cowardice
Read moreKrugman and the Big Zero
Paul Krugman casts a jaundiced eye back over the last decade in his NYT column. So let’s bid a not
Read moreIDCs Accept Common Descent? News to Me
A philosophical look at evolution and creation by a newly-minted history Ph.D., Leslie Tomory, is titled The Shock and Awe
Read moreMissing the Point at the Wall Street Journal
I’m guessing from the blithe and condescending tone of James Taranto’s piece in the Wall Street Journal that he is
Read moreRead “The Duck”
Please go read The Duck. Pass it on to your friends, especially if they are journalists. ONCE TWO SCIENTISTS—it hardly
Read moreOpderbeck and Dover, Round 3
This is a reply to a comment by David Opderbeck in this thread. Since David has consistently accused me of
Read moreOpderbeck and Dover, Round 2
I’m going to respond to a comment left by David Opderbeck to my previous post. [David Opderbeck:] Wesley, I have
Read moreOpderbeck and Dover
David Opderbeck weighs in with an opinion on the decision in the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District case: This
Read moreThis Doesn’t Look Good
Check out the discussion of a teacher suspended indefinitely in Brookeland, Texas, apparently for being “too liberal” and “an atheist”.
Read moreA Sesquicentennial
Today marks the sequicentennial, or 150th anniversary, of the date of publication of Charles R. Darwin’s most-sold book, On the
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