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Writing for the Finance section of Townhall.com (wait, the Finance section?), Mark Baisley has great hopes for the future of science. Galileo was a true scientist. I like Wikipedia’s description, “He displayed a peculiar ability to ignore established authorities, most notably Aristotelianism. In broader terms, his work marked another step towards the eventual separation of [...]
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Consistent self-contradiction
April 19th, 2012 
Deacon Duncan PZ Myers recounts a visit his blog had from a bunch of Hovind fanatics. I can summarize their argument very briefly: Your ability to reason comes from god. Therefore, if you use reason, you prove the existence of god. If you use reason to disprove god, you actually prove god. If you claim any of [...]
ID creationists and their grasp of “reality”
March 31st, 2012 Deacon Duncan The Coppedge v. JPL and CalTech lawsuit is living up to its early promise and perhaps even surpassing it. David Coppedge himself has submitted a deposition which includes—I am not making this up—a screenplay in which he fantasizes about his co-workers reduced to tears and desperately searching for a way to escape from the invincible [...]
Heh, publicity
March 18th, 2012 Deacon Duncan The creationist lawsuit against the JPL is getting better and better: the Glendale News Press reports that lawyers for David Coppedge tried—unsuccessfully—to bar the press from their client’s religious discrimination lawsuit. [Update: No, I read that wrong, it was attorneys for JPL who requested the press ban, citing privacy concerns for the witnesses.] Los Angeles [...]
Resistance is… persecution?
March 15th, 2012 Deacon Duncan This is really not going to end well for the ID creationist community… “David Coppedge alienated his co-workers by the way he acted with them, and blamed anyone who complained about those interactions,” according to JPL in their response. “He accuses his former project supervisor and line manager of making discriminatory and retaliatory employment decision, [...]
Creationist alleges “religious discrimination” at JPL
March 8th, 2012 Deacon Duncan An Intelligent Design creationist is suing Caltech for allegedly firing him for espousing his beliefs at the workplace. David Coppedge has sued Caltech, which operates Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA, claiming religious discrimination and retaliation, harassment and wrongful demotion. Officials removed Coppedge from a lead system administrator position on the Cassini mission to Saturn in [...]
Night of the living…plants?
February 21st, 2012 Deacon Duncan The Washington Post reports that a team of Russian scientists has successfully reanimated a flowering plant from some old seeds. Really old seeds. The Russian research team recovered the fruit after investigating dozens of fossil burrows hidden in ice deposits on the right bank of the lower Kolyma River in northeastern Siberia, the sediments dating [...]
Dialogs with Eric, Part 2: Does God believe what men say?
January 24th, 2012 Deacon Duncan In my post on salvation by faith, I mentioned the fact that God does not behave as though He believed all the things men say about Him, particularly as concerns His alleged love for us and His alleged desire to be part of a personal, loving and real relationship with each of us. Eric takes [...]
The “constant superstition” of William Lane Craig
October 9th, 2011 Deacon Duncan Back at the Evangelical Realism blog, we’ve made it to Dr. Craig’s Intelligent Design arguments in Chapter 5 of his book On Guard. As you might imagine, I have a few points of disagreement with his logic, starting with his assumption that constants can have different values. Stop by if you’re interested and have some [...]
Evidence for God’s incompetence
October 3rd, 2011 Deacon Duncan Writing for ID propaganda haus Evolution News, Casey Luskin criticizes scientists for claiming to have evidence supporting evolution. In the case of Richard Lenski’s Long Term Evolution Experiments (LTEE) with E. Coli bacteria, we saw that Dennis Venema of BioLogos cited purported examples of natural selection increasing specified and complex information — but intelligent design [...]
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