2012

here Hat tip: Pos-Darwinista

Great art speaks to our soul.  Consider, for example, a song like Jolie Blonde.  In mournful Cajun French the singer wails:   Jolie blonde, regardez donc quoi t’as fait, Tu m’as quitte pour t’en aller, Pour T’en aller avec un autre, oui, que moi, Quel espoir et quel avenir, mais, moi, je vais avoir?   (Pretty blond, look at what you’ve done You left me to go away to go away with another, yes, than me What hope and what future am I going to have?)*   Great art tells the truth, and if we allow him to do so, a great artist can forge a union between his heart and our own as, together, we peer into ourselves.  In this example, even Read More ›

In a prior post lastyearon employs such a classic example of the strawman fallacy that I can’t resist putting it up for all to marvel at. In the course of an attack of ID as disguised theism lastyearon writes:  “Meyers: The origin of the gene can’t be explained by chemistry (i.e. must’ve happened supernaturally).”  Meyers has never said anything like the statement in the parenthetical that is attributed to him.  I defy lastyearon to provide any source for his statement. As I said in the comment thread, when one’s opponents feel they must erect a strawman to attack instead of addressing the arguments one is actually making, that is a sure indicator that they have no response to the actual Read More ›

Next up in the Engineering and Metaphysics conference lineup is Eric Holloway’s talk on using ID concepts in engineering to solve problems. Holloway did an experiment to see whether or not he could garnish more information about a search space from an agent than from a machine. His results were lackluster (for a variety of reasons, not least of which that he couldn’t tell for sure if his subjects were machines or humans), but I think that his approach is quite worthwhile, and worth taking a look at. I think we’ll see a lot more from Holloway in the future, and I think up-and-coming ID’ers could learn a lot from his experimental approach. I think with some improvements his basic Read More ›