Happy Darwin Day!
Thursday, February 12th, 2009 Posted in Biology, Creationism | No Comments »Today, as I'm sure you know, marks a very important anniversary - the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin - a man responsible for one of the greatest paradigm shifts in the entire history of science. How can I possibly do justice ...
Britain in the grip of stupidity epidemic
Friday, February 6th, 2009 Posted in Biology, Creationism, Education, Health | No Comments »The mind boggles. The "Rescuing Darwin Survey" was, IMHO, extraordinarily poor in its design; but that's only a tiny excuse for what is a colossal failure of education, the press, and, frankly, the national intelligence. 33% of adults in the survey believed that ...
Texas Science standards
Monday, January 26th, 2009 Posted in Creationism | No Comments »Texas has finally updated its high school science standards. The fierce debate has bizarrely centred around the use of incredibly fine points of language in the infamous clause 3A, which, in its previous incarnation, allowed Creationists to wriggle their fallacious ...
Obama’s first few days
Sunday, January 25th, 2009 Posted in Creationism, Politics | No Comments »I'm really beginning to think that we might well see the beginning of the end of the fanatical religious right in America within the Obama presidency. The indications are good so far. He's shutting down Guantanamo Bay, withdrawing troops from ...
Looking Ahead to 2009 – Part 1
Sunday, December 28th, 2008 Posted in Creationism, Education | 3 Comments »I'm going to do a post every day for the next four days looking forward to the positive and negative aspects that we can expect to see in 2009, looking from four different viewpoints. Firstly, today, I'm looking at the good ...
Yay! Evolving art!
Saturday, December 13th, 2008 Posted in Creationism, Natural Computation | No Comments »http://rogeralsing.com/2008/12/07/genetic-programming-evolution-of-mona-lisa/ This was all over the internet a few days ago: A programmer who wrote a small application to evolve works of art using transparent polygons. Of course, just to see if I could, I had to duplicate it myself, though ...
Questioning science
Monday, December 8th, 2008 Posted in Creationism, Education, Politics | No Comments »I think I finally understand one of the major objections that Creationists without scientific training (if that's not a tautology) put forward when arguing against Evolution and other associated theories. I realised something today when I was listening to the ...
More presentations
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 Posted in Creationism | No Comments »I've just put up a load more presentations. Just four more left and then I'll be finished and I can return to the way things were :) I apologise for not adding in any other material at the moment - the ...
Some new slides
Sunday, November 16th, 2008 Posted in Creationism | No Comments »I've added some more slides to the Presentation page. I'm afraid I'm getting a bit slow on these - they take a great deal of time to research and write I'm afraid. I'll see whether I can speed up soon. ...
Mis-Information Theory
Saturday, November 1st, 2008 Posted in Creationism | 1 Comment »After a few subtle hints, I've finally decided to fulfil the promise I made in an earlier post to talk a little bit about the subject of information in Evolution. This all comes from the commonly-held creationist belief that evolution somehow ...
