Bounded Science

THE SELF-EXPLAINING UNIVERSE IS A PARADOX. AND THAT EXPLAINS NOTHING.

Monday, February 29, 2016

Inconstant constants to edit, not mung

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The unlikely nexus of The Skeptical Zone , Mung, noted the oddness, in the code that I provided in my last post , of using apparent constan...
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Saturday, February 27, 2016

Felsenstein: Wright, Fisher, and the Weasel

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Joe Felsenstein has posted a fine explanation of how Richard Dawkins’s monkey/Shakespeare model of cumulative selection, better known as th...
Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Responding to Dr. Ewert

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I’ve added the following to A Question for Winston Ewert at The Skeptical Zone. Dr. Ewert has responded nebulously at Uncommon Desce...
Wednesday, June 3, 2015

At least a hint, Dr. Ewert?

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Posted in The Skeptical Zone. I repeat my invitation to Dr. Winston Ewert to join us here for discussion of several questions I rais...
Sunday, May 17, 2015

The sarcastic fringehead

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The blog title I’ll always regret having missed.
Thursday, May 14, 2015

A better reason for Dr Ewert to enter The Skeptical Zone

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As I explained in my last post , Winston Ewert has solicited questions on his research with William Dembski and Robert Marks, and I have ...
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015

At The Skeptical Zone: A question for Winston Ewert

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I’ve invited Winston Ewert to join a technical discussion at The Skeptical Zone . I do solemnly vow to keep it perfectly civil. It woul...
Sunday, March 29, 2015

Deobfuscating a theorem of Ewert, Marks, and Dembski

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Back in July, I found that I couldn’t make heads or tails of the theorem in a paper by Winston Ewert, Robert J. Marks II, and William A....
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Tolstoy on the studious deceit of children by the church

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Nothing captures my experience with the church better than does this passage from Leo Tolstoy’s The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894)....
Sunday, September 28, 2014

Would E.T. notice an icon of ID creationism?

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Robert J. Marks II in his article on IDC in the conservative political outlet Human Events : Yet we all agree that a picture of Mount Ru...
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Tom English
I was a teenage creationist. And science was not the silver bullet. What put an end to my howling was a scholarly survey of the Bible and an introduction to philosophy of science, both in my freshman year at a Baptist college. Fifteen years later, I began researching evolutionary computation. Six of my published papers relate to the “no free lunch” theorems for optimization. I became interested in the “intelligent design” variety of creationism (IDC) when one of its leading proponents, William A. Dembski, referred to the theorems, and also bashed evolutionary computation, in No Free Lunch (2002). My peer-reviewed critique of IDC, coauthored by Garry Greenwood, is the opening chapter of Design by Evolution. I have explained here why IDC is bad theology and bad science.
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