Intelligent Design

Liveblogging The Creation Museum Tour Twitter Feed Highlights

August 7, 2009 By Daniel Fincke 2 Comments

Camels With Hammers pares down the first 5 hours of the twitter feed of visitors to the Creation Museum and offers you the highlights. Start reading from the bottom of the thread for chronological flow and then join the real time discussion at #cregozerg. Once you’ve read this thread be sure to check out my [...]

Filed Under: Atheism, Creationism, Friendly Atheist, Fundamentalism, Hemant Mehta, Intelligent Design, PZ Myers, Religion and Science Tagged With: Bacon, BlagHag, Creation Museum, Ken Ham 2 Comments

Secularist Creation Museum Twitter Feed

August 7, 2009 By Daniel Fincke Leave a Comment

Go here to read tweets from members of the Secular Student Alliance and from other atheist visitors to Ken Ham’s creationist museum today (and here for tweets by PZ Myers). Your Thoughts?

Filed Under: Atheism, Creationism, Intelligent Design, News, PZ Myers, Religion and Science, Secularism Tagged With: Creationist Museum, Ken Ham, Secular Student Alliance Leave a Comment

Secularists Vs. The Creationist Museum

August 6, 2009 By Daniel Fincke Leave a Comment

Tomorrow PZ Myers, biologist and prominent New Atheist blogger, joins the Secular Student Alliance to visit the infamous Creation Museum. See the latest drama of the build up to this big trip here, here, and here. (Camels With Hammers junkies who can’t get enough of what we do here may appreciate my contributions to the [...]

Filed Under: Atheism, Creationism, Intelligent Design, News, News Discussion, PZ Myers, Religion and Science, Religulous, Secularism, Videos Tagged With: Blag Hag, Richard Dawkins, Secular Student Alliance, Wendy Wright Leave a Comment

“The Real Occam’s Razor”

August 5, 2009 By Daniel Fincke Leave a Comment

Michael Dickens connects two quotes which belong together. First there’s Occam’s Razor: Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything And then Einstein’s superbly adds the missing qualification: Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. In both of these statements of the importance of parsimony are the [...]

Filed Under: Historical Philosophy, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Philosophy Tagged With: Albert Einstein, Occam's Razor, Simplicity, William of Occam Leave a Comment

Empirically Testing Theological Claims

July 27, 2009 By Daniel Fincke Leave a Comment

PZ Myers recaps some of the highlights of what he found to be a frustratingly insubstantial discussion between historian of science Ron Numbers and creationist Paul Nelson. Myers writes: His example was to talk about the argument from imperfections, the fact that many of the points Coyne made as evidence of evolution were from sub-optimal [...]