The current champion in the effort to mock that which is beyond parody, the ID articles in World magazine: Chun the Unavoidable.
We really ought to be handing out trophies, I think
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Maybe it’s just me, but I didn’t find it all that clever at all. A little bit of snarkiness without much substance.
Well, I got a laugh.
You can apply for a full refund, Ed. Details are available at my site.
I started off with the intent of writing a more serious and in-depth piece about the ID quartet, but they were just too silly. Dembski is, I think, interesting sociologically. He and the simulation argument people represent the logical (perhaps ultimate) extension of the computational metaphor. It’s interesting to imagine what comes next.
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