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Archive for March, 2008

That’s not what he said.
Clearly, errors in translation between forms of intelligent life and lesser lifeforms are bound to be riddled with errors. Take, for example, the conversion of dog barks to English.
Dog: Bark bark woof bark bark
In English: Hi, my name is Sparky!
That’s not a literal translation, it’s just the best I can translate [...]

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No, this is not the introduction to a movie based on blues delta musician Robert Johnson, this is about what the interviewees were told based on what is known.
Many of the nice scientific folks interviewed, including both Richard Dawkins and PZ Myers were, to my understanding, told originally that Expelled was a movie called Crossroads [...]

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In Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, many are interviewed. Many being many scientists. I’m not sure on the technical specs as I haven’t seen it yet and won’t be paying a single cent to see it, so I can only await for third-party reviews with the full cast. Yes, I’m sure the full cast is around [...]

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As the PBS documentary Intelligent Design on Trial shows, intelligent design is nothing but creationism in a cheap tuxedo.
The scientific community shows overwhelming acceptance of evolution, with 99% of scientists in all fields accepting it as essentially scientific truth. Intelligent Design, on the other hand, is the opposite of such:
The unequivocal consensus in the scientific [...]

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