Forced Ambiguity and Cherry Picking
Continuing with my series on the tactics of denialists, I present forced ambiguity and cherry picking. These are two tactics that are almost opposites of each other. The first deals with intentionally...
View ArticleCreationism’s Missed Trick
I have long maintained that creationists are cunning, but not very intelligent. In many ways, they are politicians. They say whatever it takes to get elected. This includes different messages to...
View ArticleDNA is Not Like a Computer
A pro-ID poster (I assume he’s pro-ID, he’s never actually said anything that supports ID), has made the following claim (here): Void, since computer science was one of my undergraduate degrees, I’m...
View ArticleA Problem with Intelligent Design Analogies
Thinking about the subject, I thought of another problem with ID’s analogies and their comparisons with things that are known to be intelligently designed. One of the things that ID proponents...
View ArticleWhy Specificity in Intelligent Design is Useless
Many of the thoughts in intelligent design revolve around the concept of information. Which, sadly, is not what most of the ID proponents think that it is. I’ve talked about this before. They...
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Casey Luskin’s Top Ten Misunderstandings of Biology
Over at the so-called “Evolution News” site, Casey Luskin presents his Top Ten Problems with Chemical and Biological Evolution (h/t to Dr. Larry Moran). Or, as I prefer to call them, The top ten things...
View ArticleWhy Specificity is Not an Argument Against Evolution
In dealing with creationists, they will often steer the conversation to something like specificity. They will say that no new information can be added without a designer… with the requirement that they...
View ArticleSETI and Intelligent Design
Once again, the staff writer of Evolution News and Views (which is not about evolution and is not news) betrays their complete lack of understanding of physics and science. There’s actually an...
View ArticleCasey Luskin – Poster Boy for How NOT to Argue
Casey Luskin, once again, shows us why he is not a person to take seriously. He, like his buddy Meyer, fails a very basic area of research in promoting his ideas. His latest article shows some oddly...
View ArticleDon McLeroy’s Little Pamphlet
As I mentioned previously, Don McLeroy showed up at Jerry Coyne’s discussion of the book Faith vs. Fact. He passed out a pamphlet or essay paper to Dr. Coyne. A kind reader sent me a copy of it....
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