tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post3592801734822453860..comments2023-09-24T07:53:50.826-05:00Comments on The Atheist Experience™: Dembski has Glenn Beck Envy?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-84613317359033137872009-10-21T17:35:48.274-05:002009-10-21T17:35:48.274-05:00Waaaaaayyyyy late....but I must register my astoni...Waaaaaayyyyy late....but I must register my astonishment...<br /><br />"Isaac Newton of Information Theory"? Is somebody farking kidding me? <br /><br />If I remember correctly, that title, if it is to be given to anyone, should be given to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon" rel="nofollow">Claude Shannon. </a><br /><br />Shannon was a brilliant mathematician and computer theorist, who literally invented information theory. Before Shannon, computers could store and manipulate numbers, so math problems could be solved.<br />After Shannon's Master's Thesis, (MASTER'S THESIS! He wasn't even a doctoral candidate at the time!) it was understood that anything could be represented, not only as a number, but as a binary number. Music, pictures, movies, galactic collisions, human emotions. You name it, it can be represented in a computer.<br />Brilliant doesn't begin to describe the guy. He almost singlehandedly invented computer gaming, with the first practical chess playing program. <br /><br />Dembski isn't worthy to kiss Shannon's dead ass. And he tries to claim that he is somehow superior to Shannon?<br /><br />That is obscene.maddogdeltahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17657824720032887242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-63668366351468322782009-09-26T11:49:58.867-05:002009-09-26T11:49:58.867-05:00The defend your faith thing as it's being used...The defend your faith thing as it's being used still seems annoying. It's telling people to go and start arguments with folks who wouldn't have bothered them or challenged their faith directly otherwise.Inghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13024689390434414829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-54197192126027590992009-09-25T12:04:13.784-05:002009-09-25T12:04:13.784-05:00Ignoring for a minute that we're talking about...Ignoring for a minute that we're talking about the William Demski, the "defend your faith" requirement in apologetics courses is pretty common.Boogerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16690985126193235302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-72931949484065124692009-09-25T05:59:09.526-05:002009-09-25T05:59:09.526-05:00"Darwin-lovers"?
I have a confession to..."Darwin-lovers"?<br /><br />I have a confession to make. I've never even read On the Origin of Species. It's the work of other scientists that convinces me.mikespeirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05397674737999065117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-18153536160463452652009-09-25T00:33:04.630-05:002009-09-25T00:33:04.630-05:00I warn you: this is probably the meanest thing I&#...I warn you: this is probably the meanest thing I've ever written about someone I don't know. The entire opinion is based on what I know of the subject's writing.<br /><br />Dembski is a boorish, stupid man, and will likely die a boorish, stupid man, some day in the distant future, having for his only accomplishment the catylization of others' education in science, that they may avoid his particular flavor of stupid.Fordihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12551520726995507010noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-13116592205269742552009-09-24T21:19:44.297-05:002009-09-24T21:19:44.297-05:00Damn it Martin, I already have major patience issu...Damn it Martin, I already have major patience issues with fundies and dumb bunnies...now whenever I see someone like Mr. Freefromthinking or highboy or the guy who PZ had to call the cops on, or the like I'm going to be tempted to ask if they're doing it for a class.Inghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13024689390434414829noreply@blogger.com