
Jerry “Why Evolution Is True” Coyne (whom UD News did not invent, whatever people say), has launched an attack on Catholic Darwinist John Haught because of his claimed refusal to release the tapes of a debate that would show that he came off poorly vs. Coyne. Coyne says,
This is the story of the cowardly and intellectually dishonest actions of a theologian—one who is suppressing release of a video that shows the lameness of his religious beliefs. It’s also the story of an academic center supposedly dedicated to fostering open debate, but actually complicit in suppressing that debate.
Rest here, and you can make whatever sense of it.
But fellow Darwinist Nick Matze has sprung to Haught’s defense, arguing,
Was it officially agreed to ahead of time that the debate* would be posted online? Yes or no, Jerry, we deserve a straight answer to this.
If not, then you don’t know the reason for the taping, and you don’t really have a right to demand indignantly that it be put online. It depends who paid for it, who did the taping, and for what purpose.
Matzke is a commenter here, and apparently no fan of Jerry and the other gnu atheists, because he has good relationships with Catholic Darwinists.
Here is something else you don’t see everyday; Here a Darwinian Psychologist has a actual ‘moment of honesty’ facing the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness;
lol, naww. I think he’s just a very thoughtful person and not afraid to criticize anyone, whether gnu or not.
Um, how about a near death experience?
BA, I’m surprised you didn’t mention that. 😉
CannuckianYankee, here is another beaut of a quote I found today:
Remember a few years back when neo-Darwinists denied that information was even in the DNA ??? 🙂
Parallel programming is a good deal more difficult than just finding a subtrate like DNA capable of doing millions or billions of operations simultaneously. You have to find a way for to coordinate all the threads and allow for inter-communication of results as well.
A sizeable number of difficult problems are hardly even amenable to parallelization, so it’s hardly a magic bullet.
SCheesman thanks for pointing that out,,, that’s the whole thing though,,, parallel programming, such as we find in the cell’s DNA, is magnitudes of levels higher, in functional integrated complexity, than anything that our top teams of computer programmers have accomplished, and yet, though no one can seem to locate any random mutations/variations that increase functional information, above the completely trivial (and sometimes the trivially contrived) examples we see, we are told, by supposedly rational PhD. holding people, that this level of complexity, that human computer programmers can only dream of imitating, arose by Random material processes. The sheer disconnect between reality and reason would be hard for me to believe if I have not seen such insanity first hand!!!
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