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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26020 Posts |
 Posted - 07/29/2009 : 07:22:42
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Dembski's entry on Rate My Professor. Three frownie-faces, two smiley-faces. Funniest comment:He thinks he is so smart, but he is wrong about everything. He is always being made fun of behind his back.
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 07/29/2009 : 08:55:59 [Permalink]
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He is in the finance department?
And teaches philosophy and 'ID101', both seem inadequate in regard to his degree and irrelevant to his department. |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
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Hawks
SFN Regular
Canada
1383 Posts |
Posted - 07/29/2009 : 20:55:06 [Permalink]
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For those of you that don't follow the antics at uncommondescent, I thought I would give you a snippet of just what Dembski is (in)capable of.
This sentence of his mostly sums his post up:
| In particular, what makes science science is its counterintuitiveness. |
He goes on about how scientists state that previous trends of global cooling are actually indicative of global warming. He uses a few other examples in a simlar vein.
He really thinks that
| ...we make it a method of science to look for the most counterintuitive theory and then baptize it as “science.” |
Dembski is not bad. He is a complete nut-job. Commenter Diffaxial has been trying to get anyone to give some sort of reference for that this is the way science works. The best response I've seen so far is by moderator Clive Hayden:
Diffaxial: ——”I'll take that as a “no” vis a specific quote or link.”
Clive: I'll take it as a yes, though I cannot find the link (I just spent a good amount of time looking), you'll just have to trust me. I know it's hard for folks like you to assume someone as honest. Which really, in itself, is telling. |
Wow. |
METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL
It's a small, off-duty czechoslovakian traffic warden! |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 07/30/2009 : 15:34:39 [Permalink]
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Small wonder Dembski's students grade him so lowly as a professor. He's a numbskull, which is probably why he habitually seeks simpleminded dogma and magical puffery to explain a complex universe which his mind cannot begin to encompass. "The Isaac Newton of information theory" -- not. He can't understand science, so he prefers to portray it as a fantasy straw man that L. Frank Baum would have rejected as too counterfeit a character to use his Oz novels.
In Wolfgang Pauli's words, Dembski is "not even wrong."
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Dembski, rated
