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Entries from May 2005

Dawkins on ID

May 28th, 2005 · 2 Comments

Richard Dawkins weighs in with regard to the trickery and lies of Intelligent Design proponents.
Also, see “No Science for You!” which Valerie so graciousy pointed to in a comment on my last post on this topic.

ADDENDUM: from the Dawkins article, “Bring us your mysteries for we can use them. Don’t squander precious ignorance by researching [...]

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Tarzan Rubber Band

May 27th, 2005 · No Comments

This video is inexplicable. Don’t watch it. I don’t know why I’m posting this — it’s some kind of mind disease or something making me want to spread it.

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ARGH

May 26th, 2005 · 1 Comment

Yes, evolution and natural selection are definitely undirected processes. If you don’t count, you know, living and reproducing.
I’ve never seen so much rationalization in my life as with this intelligent design BS. Do you know what people discussing intelligent design is? It’s a bunch of people playing who-can-make-up-the-best-excuse-for-teaching-creationism-in-public-schools. Listen to intelligent design proponents (i.e. [...]

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Hot Much?

May 25th, 2005 · No Comments

Amanda sent an email to me today saying that I could pull up Zinder, Niger on my Dashboard weather widget. I punched it in:

Apparently it’s hot season right now, and won’t be when we go there. That’s good, because 107 degrees raw temperature… Wow. That’s almost the temp of the water in my dishwasher.

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New Data

May 25th, 2005 · No Comments

I’m wrapping up the data runs for the paper that I’m working on, and these last few results are interesting. Here’s a movie (DivX required) of a run:
CI185.avi
Neat, huh?

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