tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post5624160711304660552..comments2023-12-21T06:35:36.624-05:00Comments on Recursivity: A Spectacular Student OpportunityUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-36955045872413582492013-01-15T23:37:07.738-05:002013-01-15T23:37:07.738-05:00You'll find the partially readable cover page ...You'll find the partially readable cover page of their 2009 syllabus on a <a href="http://str.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451d2ba69e2011571cbfc18970b-pi" rel="nofollow">photo</a> of the course material published by a former participant on his <a href="http://str.typepad.com/weblog/2009/07/i-opened-a-large-package-i-got-in-the-mail-from-the-discovery-institute.html" rel="nofollow">stand to reason blog</a>. When Larry Moran reported about the course I've posted the reading list deduced from the photo in the <a href="http://sandwalk.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-course-on-intelligent-design-in.html?showComment=1355894482991#c7549014037994016461" rel="nofollow">Sandwalk comment section</a>.SPARChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09563722742249547887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-64097714454494962872013-01-14T16:17:42.968-05:002013-01-14T16:17:42.968-05:00Another addition to the ID Syllabus:
CSI, FSC, FC...Another addition to the ID Syllabus:<br /><br /><i>CSI, FSC, FCSI, FSCI, dFSCI, DSFCI, FSCO/I: How to make up new scientifistical acronyms when your pig-ignorance of mathematics is exposed</i>Diogeneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15551943619872944637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-23593814960546954892013-01-14T16:14:57.644-05:002013-01-14T16:14:57.644-05:00As for your proposed ID syllabus:
Why the Ducky i...As for your proposed ID syllabus:<br /><br /><i>Why the Ducky is Different from the Horsie</i><br /><br />Um, that might be too mathematically complex for IDers. I would suggest<br /><br /><i>"Why is a Fly Not a Horse?"</i><br /><br />And now, a real quote to back it up, from Jonathan "They Glued the Moths To the Tree" Wells.<br /><br />Well: “Furthermore, the similarity of HOX genes in so many animal phyla is actually a problem for neo-Darwinism: If evolutionary changes in body plans are due to changes in genes, and flies have HOX genes similar to those in a horse, why is a fly not a horse?" – [http://www.evolutionnews.org/2009/10/storming_the_beaches_of_norman.html]<br /><br />Some Italian IDer actually wrote a book with that title. Even stupid sounds better in Italian.Diogeneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15551943619872944637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-19877515643942492382013-01-11T12:23:31.371-05:002013-01-11T12:23:31.371-05:00Not yet.
I tried to explain to Nagel why he doesn...Not yet.<br /><br />I tried to explain to Nagel why he doesn't understand information theory, but to little avail.Jeffrey Shallithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12763971505497961430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-75001534741155812632013-01-11T11:46:53.172-05:002013-01-11T11:46:53.172-05:00Jeff, have you read Thomas Nagel's Mind and Co...Jeff, have you read Thomas Nagel's <b>Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False</b>? http://www.amazon.com/dp/0199919755<br /><br />I'm just getting into it now and would be interested to hear your take on it.The Atheist Missionaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07191035196328725888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-56841264745270144802013-01-11T04:21:24.836-05:002013-01-11T04:21:24.836-05:00What is the "sociological dimension" beh...What is the "sociological dimension" behind ID's astonishing research successes, you know, the ones that are published nearly every day in Bio-complexity?Jeffrey Shallithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12763971505497961430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-52300413695636627052013-01-10T18:38:25.266-05:002013-01-10T18:38:25.266-05:00Just to complete the quote...
"The Darwinists...Just to complete the quote...<br />"The Darwinists undestand this. So do the ID proponents. There is a sociological dimension to science and to the prospering of scientific theories, and this cannot be ignored if ID is going to become a thriving research program."Gulpnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-26557107220703185652013-01-10T14:05:27.117-05:002013-01-10T14:05:27.117-05:00This is of a piece with remarks Dembski made on AR...This is of a piece with remarks Dembski made on ARN 10 years ago, where he wrote<br /><br /><i>Why should ID supporters allow the Darwinian establishment to indoctrinate students at the high school level, only to divert some of the brightest to becoming supporters of a mechanistic account of evolution, when by presenting ID at the high school level some of these same students would go on to careers trying to develop ID as a positive research program? If ID is going to succeed as a research program, it will need workers, and these are best recruited at a young age.</i><br /><br />(Original post now unavailable, but I quoted it <a href="http://pandasthumb.org/archives/2004/09/introduction-to.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>, and it's also in <a href="http://www.designinference.com/documents/2002.07.Mike_Gene.htm" rel="nofollow">this essay</a> on Dembski's designinference.com site)RBHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13562135000111792590noreply@blogger.com