tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8448663046375322498.post5386053020736780718..comments2023-10-23T08:56:50.127-06:00Comments on Angry by Choice: Evolution: Time is on Our SideThe Loraxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13361004494346338824noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8448663046375322498.post-51643727281886194552012-01-07T15:29:46.418-06:002012-01-07T15:29:46.418-06:00@ adam kieren:
While Angry by Choice doesn't ...@ adam kieren:<br /><br />While Angry by Choice doesn't provide evidence that there is time enough, it explores why creationist argument against evolution is erroneous, and wouldn't lead to creationism even if correct. However, you point back to the same erroneous argument, which AbC explores in further posts.<br /><br />That isn't constructive. Showing a theory wrong would in any case not show another correct. And evolution is known to be the accepted biology.<br /><br />Btw, there is no such thing in probability theory (or science) as "probabilistic resources". Probabilities are distributions of events. They can be measured by probabilistic mass, not "resources".Torbjörn Larssonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13304729731231255545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8448663046375322498.post-87325924530711058392012-01-05T22:46:48.022-06:002012-01-05T22:46:48.022-06:00satire. Ed Current has some great videos.satire. Ed Current has some great videos.The Loraxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13361004494346338824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8448663046375322498.post-63911235570785825802012-01-05T19:51:47.943-06:002012-01-05T19:51:47.943-06:00Is that video serious, or satire? I actually can&#...Is that video serious, or satire? I actually can't tell. That was brutal. My favorite line might be:<br /><br />"Find a fossil that proves a rib turned into the world's first woman."Nate Fremlingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8448663046375322498.post-73834770723713337982011-12-24T10:48:00.127-06:002011-12-24T10:48:00.127-06:00I found this at evolutionnews. i think it is relev...I found this at evolutionnews. i think it is relevant to the discussion started by professor enonymous. <br /><br />An anonymous professor at the University of Minnesota writes a blog that came to our attention because he tries to knock down not an actual argument for intelligent design but the most simplistic parody, provided to him not by any actual ID advocate but by an unnamed female friend whom he quotes:<br /><br />"I just learned that mathematicians assert (not necessarily in an argument to support God) that there hasn't been enough time for the theory of evolution to be viable. I'm making an assumption you have been aware of this given your profession and scientific mind and I'm curious of your take on this".<br /><br />The professor-blogger not only doesn't write under his own name but is cagey about what department he teaches in -- though he says he has "a background in Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology." The blog itself is called, promisingly, "Angry by Choice."<br /><br />Professor Angry goes on to write, silly Darwin doubters try to show how wildly improbable chance-driven Darwinian evolution is, given the finite time constraints. Yet we fail to see that any seemingly improbable chance occurrence -- like a series of Powerball winning numbers coming up -- is 100% certain to occur once it's already occurred. Why didn't we think of this?<br /><br />Even PZ seems more familiar with the Darwin-doubting arguments he derides than this fellow does, and surely everyone knows that if you want to refute an idea convincingly you need to go to a sophisticated presentation of it and argue against that. We suggest Angry do a word search at ENV for the phrase "probabilistic resources."<br /><br />It produces a couple of pages of article links that we encourage him to read through and then get back to us. Better yet see an accessible treatment of the issue like in William Dembski's The Design Revolution.adam kierennoreply@blogger.com