{"id":498,"date":"2010-12-29T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/12\/combating-crackpots-around-the-blogosphere\/"},"modified":"2010-12-29T14:04:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T14:04:00","slug":"combating-crackpots-around-the-blogosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/12\/combating-crackpots-around-the-blogosphere.html","title":{"rendered":"Combating Crackpots Around the Blogosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Expanding on a recent theme here,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5718774\/how-can-i-be-a-more-awesome-crackpot\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">IO9 has hilarious instructions on how to be a more awesome crackpot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/northstatescience.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/29\/what-scholarship-learning-and-understanding-are-all-about\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Christopher O\u2019Brien<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/scotteriology.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/29\/james-mcgrathillustrating-differences-between-scholarly-research-and-mythicist-blog-conversations\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Scott Bailey<\/a>\u00a0discussed and shared links to a recent post of mine trying once again to explain differences between scholarship and pseudoscholarship. Scott also <a href=\"http:\/\/scotteriology.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/29\/pool-of-ignorance\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">shared some humorous comments\/expansions<\/a> on the Facebook fail he shared earlier, many of which illustrate why sometimes just a little bit of thought, rather than extensive scientific knowledge, is sufficient to keep you from being duped by nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>Chris O\u2019Brian also shared <a href=\"http:\/\/northstatescience.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/29\/correcting-creationists-is-always-infuriating\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a post on why correcting creationists is infuriating<\/a> \u2013 but he nevertheless tries once again to do just that.<\/p>\n<p>James Bradley finishes explaining <a href=\"http:\/\/biologos.org\/blog\/why-dembskis-design-inference-doesnt-work-part-2\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">why Dembski\u2019s \u201cdesign inference\u201d doesn\u2019t work<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jerry Coyne explains why <a href=\"http:\/\/whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/29\/theres-plenty-of-time-for-evolution\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">there is plenty of time for evolution to have occurred<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Meert shares <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceantiscience.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/decay-rates-are-not-constant.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the latest on radioactive decay rates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0px;margin-left: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-top: 0px\">According to\u00a0<i>The Atlantic Wire<\/i>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticwire.com\/features\/view\/feature\/Kentucky-Creationist-Museum-Will-Feature-Dragons-Unicorns-2838\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the Kentucky Noah\u2019s ark \u201cmuseum\u201d will include unicorns and dragons\/dinosaurs<\/a>.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0px;margin-left: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-top: 0px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0px;margin-left: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-top: 0px\">Robin Parry discusses\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theologicalscribbles.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/old-testament-cosmologypaul-seely.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Old Testament cosmology<\/a>, sharing links to some useful articles.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0px;margin-left: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-top: 0px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0px;margin-left: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-top: 0px\">DoOrDoNot discusses <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkandwonderwonderandthink.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/how-we-handle-difficult-passages-one.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">problems with atomistic exegesis<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0px;margin-left: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-top: 0px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0px;margin-left: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-top: 0px\">The <i>National Post<\/i> has an <a href=\"http:\/\/fullcomment.nationalpost.com\/2010\/12\/26\/jesus-of-nazareth-or-thereabouts\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">excerpt on the Gospel infancy narratives<\/a> from\u00a0Diarmaid MacCulloch\u2019s book\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Christianity-First-Three-Thousand-Years\/dp\/0670021261?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;link_code=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><i>Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years<\/i><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=0670021261\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important;padding: 0px !important\" width=\"1\">.<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-5517478761987806911?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expanding on a recent theme here,\u00a0IO9 has hilarious instructions on how to be a more awesome crackpot. 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Scott also shared some humorous comments\/expansions on the Facebook fail he shared earlier, many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Combating Crackpots Around the Blogosphere<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Expanding on a recent theme here,&nbsp;IO9 has hilarious instructions on how to be a more awesome crackpot.Christopher O&#039;Brien and Scott\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/12\/combating-crackpots-around-the-blogosphere.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Combating Crackpots Around the Blogosphere\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Expanding on a recent theme here,&nbsp;IO9 has hilarious instructions on how to be a more awesome crackpot.Christopher O&#039;Brien and Scott\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/12\/combating-crackpots-around-the-blogosphere.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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