Monthly Archives: January 2006

A Jim Pinkoski Treasure Trove

Posted on January 28, 2006 by arensb

Long-time readers of Pharyngula have been treated to PZ Myyrrzz’s writings about Jim Pinkoski (“If you doubt this is possible, how is it there are PIGMIES + DWARFS??“), so I was pleased to discover a veritable treasure trove of Pinkoski’s … Continue reading →

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ID and Suboptimal Design

Posted on January 28, 2006 by arensb

William Dembski has put up a paper entitled Intelligent Design is not Optimal Design, which purports to counter the argument from suboptimal design (e.g., “Why would Godan intelligent designer wire human retinas backward, when he had done a better job … Continue reading →

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Little Languages and Tables

Posted on January 27, 2006 by arensb

Recently, a coworker whipped up a Perl script that’ll build all of the Perl modules we support. This is useful for when we add a new supported OS or OS version. This script takes a config file, moduledefs, which lists … Continue reading →

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Utah Creationism Bill

Posted on January 25, 2006 by arensb

The Utah Daily Herald has a perspicacious editorial on Utah’s anti-evolution bill. While the bill does not mention “intelligent design,” “divine design” or any other euphemism for creationism by name, the implications are clear: A number of legislators want to … Continue reading →

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Orson Scott Card vs. the Brain Eater

Posted on January 22, 2006 by arensb

In case there was still any lingering doubt about whether Orson Scott Card has fallen prey to the brain eater, he is now defending Intelligent Design. PZ Mhriearrr goes on a tear.

Posted in FFS, Intelligent Design | 3 Comments

Neologism: Filibuster Screen

Posted on January 18, 2006 by arensb

I propose the following new term: filibuster screen. It refers to an application splash screen, such as KDE’s or OpenOffice’s, which not only takes up a big chunk of otherwise-useful screen real estate for a long time while it starts … Continue reading →

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Dembski Admits Motives

Posted on January 12, 2006 by arensb

It’s official: Uncommon Descent is an IDC circle jerk: The deal with this blog, since I’ve given it over to my friends, is to build community and “feel the love.” Unfortunately, that requires recalcitrant elements to be purged. That’s a … Continue reading →

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Science Diet

Posted on January 11, 2006 by arensb

Every time the creation vs. evolution debate flares up, someone on the creationism side will say that “Darwinism” is an “athiest” plot to destroy religion. And someone on the evolution side will say that evolution has nothing to say about … Continue reading →

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Tom Toles on ID

Posted on January 9, 2006 by arensb

Tom Toles’s Dec. 23, 2005 cartoon: The tagline “Maybe a new name…” at the bottom is perfect, because that’s exactly what Bill Dembski was advocating on his weblog: I therefore offer the following proposal if ID gets outlawed from our … Continue reading →

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Pat Robertson’s God Is A Pussy

Posted on January 6, 2006 by arensb

After his call to assassinate Hugo Chavez and his claim that the residents of Dover, PA rejected God, now Pat Robertson is saying that God caused Ariel Sharon’s stroke. Which, I think, puts him in the same category as Howard … Continue reading →

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