I’ve been learning to program in Python, and midway through an “online intro to Python” thing I’ve been doing, I realized it had given me everything I’d need to write a Python script for disemvowelling text. Also: my policy on creationism in the comments.
William Lane Craig: young-earth creationism is an embarrassment
February 17, 2013 By 80 Comments
I’ve had difficulty finding any straightforward statements from William Lane Craig on evolution and creationism. Often, he hedges by throwing a few subtle encouragements to his anti-evolution fans while avoiding saying anything that would identify him. But in a recent podcast, he was very frank about young-earth creationism:
Evolution, original sin, and the problem of evil
January 25, 2013 By 9 Comments
Previously: Yes, creationism is religiously motivated
Yes, creationism is religiously motivated
January 23, 2013 By 12 Comments
Previously: The evidence for evolution
Many Christians still think Africans are descended from Noah’s evil son Ham
January 22, 2013 By 14 Comments
Libby Anne has a post titled “Is Creationism Racist?” which I don’t really have anything to add to, except that I think she buries the lede:
From the archives: Review of Finding Darwin’s God
January 21, 2013 By 1 Comment
I’ve spent the day suffering from writers block over what to say about evolution in the book. I went poking through my own blog archives and discovered a review of Kenneth Miller’s Finding Darwin’s God, originally published in September 2009. To my surprise, I apparently liked it. I’ll need to reread it, or at least parts of [...]
Sunday links and open thread: debunking myths on Reddit, Mabus update, and more
November 25, 2012 By 5 Comments
Time for another Sunday links open thread. Use the comments to discuss any of these stories or anything I’ve failed to cover in the last week:
Discussion: what books do you recommend to get someone out of religion?
July 22, 2012 By 19 Comments
I recently saw a discussion thread at LessWrong where the OP claimed, “I have stopped recommending Dawkin’s work to people who are on the fence about religion. The God Delusion utterly destroyed his effectiveness at convincing people against religion.” This got me thinking: what books do you recommend to get someone out of religion? Here [...]
South Korean creationists manufactured a fake victory
July 8, 2012 By 9 Comments
This is a correction to a post I wrote where I reported that South Korean creationists had gotten evolution taken out of South Korean textbooks. I was wrong. I was alerted to this by an e-mail from reader David Cortesi who writes:
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