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Will Old Ideas Ever Die?

On a blog discussing recent comments about a somewhat significant event at LHC, the blog’s author talks what another SUSY enthusiast has written. SUSY, for those who don’t already know, is short for Super-Symmetry, a theory allied to “string” theory, or, better yet, “superstring” theory. The LHC was supposed to turn up the elusive Higg’s boson (the so-called “God-particle”), and to detect, as well, supersymmetric particles, which are particles sharing certain properties with other known particles, but existing in different quantum states (spin and charge, e.g.). Well, they haven’t shown up. So what is a good SUSY enthusiast to do? Well, interestingly enough for the ID/UD community, it’s to rationalize away the results. We, thought it was just Darwinists. But Read More ›

Mud-to-Mozart Atheology (Or, Who are the real skeptics?)

I find the “skeptic” claim on the part of Darwinian materialists very interesting and equally illuminating. Darwinists exhibit no skepticism whatsoever about the thesis that physical stuff turned into Mozart by chance. (Don’t try to deny this, Darwinists, that is the essence of your claim. You can try to obfuscate with legion “peer-reviewed scientific papers,” but you’re not going to fool me and many others about what you are actually promoting and advocating.) I choose Mozart not just because I am a classical concert pianist, but because his existence epitomizes everything that Darwinian theory is totally powerless to explain. Darwinists, claiming to be skeptics, actually exhibit the antithesis of skepticism — making transparently ludicrous claims and providing a never-ending stream Read More ›