Secret Designers of Secret Designs Coming To Campus
The ODE reports that some scientific illiterates will be hosting a talk by IDer Geoffery Simmons at 7:30 tonight in the Fir room. The foreward of Simmons’s book is by noted statistical liar* and Intelligent Designer William Dembski, just to give you a picture of where the guy is coming from. So if you’d like a good laugh, or you’re interested in having your IQ lowered by a few points, or you want to see the inevitable smack-down by a UO Chemistry professor feel free to attend.
Personally, it’s a long commute from Texas and I prefer my fairy tales to be better written.
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*DRINK!
Not if you’re a frequentist!
“He said the improbability of our solar system being placed in The Milky Way Galaxy, a safe place away from black holes or exploding stars, shows an intelligent designer…”
A basic principle of probability, folks: if you’re asking what the probability of an event is, it makes a significant difference if the event has already happened.
HAH!
I’m not mocking you — I’m impressed.
Don’t mock me.
I thought about going with “Building A Mystery” or “Simmons On Hunt For Real Killer”, but I dunno, I’m just lamer than that.
Wow, referencing the Hit & Run comment boards — now that’s obscure.
As I was leaving the Commentator office this evening after our meeting, a bookish and tired-looking gentleman exited the elevator onto the 3rd floor and asked where the Fir Room was. So I rode the elevator to the 1st floor and directed him appropriately. Then he gave me a copy of his book. Turns out he was Geoffery Simmons, on the way to his lecture.