Comments for Further thoughts http://ianramjohn.wordpress.com Science, religion and politics from a Trinidadian plant ecologist Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:06:27 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Discovery Institute Fellow runs for school board as “Darwinist”? by DeavaitteNutt http://ianramjohn.wordpress.com/2007/08/29/discovery-institute-fellow-runs-for-school-board-as-darwinist/#comment-2812 DeavaitteNutt Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:06:27 +0000 http://ianramjohn.wordpress.com/2007/08/29/discovery-institute-fellow-runs-for-school-board-as-darwinist/#comment-2812 Hi nto All. My computer worked slowly, many errors. Please, help me to fix errors on my computer. I used Windows XP. Thanks, DeavaitteNutt Hi nto All.
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]]> Comment on Best blog posting ever by BloggerDude http://ianramjohn.wordpress.com/2007/06/23/best-blog-posting-ever/#comment-2796 BloggerDude Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:32:37 +0000 http://ianramjohn.wordpress.com/2007/06/23/best-blog-posting-ever/#comment-2796 I don't know If I said it already but ...Hey good stuff...keep up the good work! :) I read a lot of blogs on a daily basis and for the most part, people lack substance but, I just wanted to make a quick comment to say I'm glad I found your blog. Thanks,) A definite great read.... I don’t know If I said it already but …Hey good stuff…keep up the good work! :) I read a lot of blogs on a daily basis and for the most part, people lack substance but, I just wanted to make a quick comment to say I’m glad I found your blog. Thanks,)

A definite great read….

]]> Comment on How to write an intelligent design book by John Pieret http://ianramjohn.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/how-to-write-an-intelligent-design-book/#comment-2795 John Pieret Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:27:50 +0000 http://ianramjohn.wordpress.com/?p=1051#comment-2795 <i>OK, some people would think you’re talking about the Yeti. But look on the bright side – you could build links between two groups that feel shut out by academic science – the creationists and the cryptozoologists.</i> It's already here: http://dododreams.blogspot.com/2009/10/hearing-footsteps.html OK, some people would think you’re talking about the Yeti. But look on the bright side – you could build links between two groups that feel shut out by academic science – the creationists and the cryptozoologists.

It’s already here:

http://dododreams.blogspot.com/2009/10/hearing-footsteps.html

]]> Comment on Making sense of the DI by ERV http://ianramjohn.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/making-sense-of-the-di/#comment-2794 ERV Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:04:41 +0000 http://ianramjohn.wordpress.com/?p=1045#comment-2794 I dont have the pic! But I know it was taken... Brian Biggs knows it was taken... I dont even know if the kid was taking pics for IDEA or Trinity or the OU paper... I dont have the pic! But I know it was taken… Brian Biggs knows it was taken… I dont even know if the kid was taking pics for IDEA or Trinity or the OU paper…

]]> Comment on How to write an intelligent design book by Joshua Zelinsky http://ianramjohn.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/how-to-write-an-intelligent-design-book/#comment-2793 Joshua Zelinsky Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:59:49 +0000 http://ianramjohn.wordpress.com/?p=1051#comment-2793 The Design Inference is also a much stuffier book. Even the title is stuffier. "Darwin's Black Box" sounds a lot more interesting than "The Design Inference" which from the title sounds almost like a Robert Ludlum novel knockoff(Next up, The Irreducibility Agenda, followed by The Transitional Conspiracy. ) until you realize it is an academic book and then it sounds frightfully dry. The Design Inference is also a much stuffier book. Even the title is stuffier. “Darwin’s Black Box” sounds a lot more interesting than “The Design Inference” which from the title sounds almost like a Robert Ludlum novel knockoff(Next up, The Irreducibility Agenda, followed by The Transitional Conspiracy. ) until you realize it is an academic book and then it sounds frightfully dry.

]]> Comment on Making sense of the DI by Ian http://ianramjohn.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/making-sense-of-the-di/#comment-2792 Ian Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:52:59 +0000 http://ianramjohn.wordpress.com/?p=1045#comment-2792 Assuming that you aren't a vampire... :) Assuming that you aren’t a vampire… :)

]]> Comment on Making sense of the DI by Joshua Zelinsky http://ianramjohn.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/making-sense-of-the-di/#comment-2791 Joshua Zelinsky Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:52:28 +0000 http://ianramjohn.wordpress.com/?p=1045#comment-2791 Abbie, post the pic! Abbie, post the pic!

]]> Comment on How to write an intelligent design book by Ian http://ianramjohn.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/how-to-write-an-intelligent-design-book/#comment-2790 Ian Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:50:38 +0000 http://ianramjohn.wordpress.com/?p=1051#comment-2790 Math isn't sexy - or wasn't, until Danica McKellar - and Dembski still managed to make his name with <i>The Design Inference</i>... Ah, damn. I can't make things up just to support my premise. <i>The Design Inference</i> has an Amazon sales rank below 450,000, while <i>DBB</i> has a sales rank better than 4,500 and even <i>Icons</i> is above 25,000. That said, flowers are sexy. And I'm a better writer than any of that lot. I'm almost tempted to Sokal it... :) Math isn’t sexy – or wasn’t, until Danica McKellar – and Dembski still managed to make his name with The Design Inference… Ah, damn. I can’t make things up just to support my premise. The Design Inference has an Amazon sales rank below 450,000, while DBB has a sales rank better than 4,500 and even Icons is above 25,000.

That said, flowers are sexy. And I’m a better writer than any of that lot. I’m almost tempted to Sokal it… :)

]]> Comment on Making sense of the DI by ERV http://ianramjohn.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/making-sense-of-the-di/#comment-2789 ERV Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:46:36 +0000 http://ianramjohn.wordpress.com/?p=1045#comment-2789 WAIT WAIT WAIT! Remember, after the Q&A, when people were mulling about? There was a kid there taking pics?? He took a pic of me and Brian and one of his friends talking-- There is actually <i>photographic evidence</i> that I stayed through the Q&A!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! WAIT WAIT WAIT!

Remember, after the Q&A, when people were mulling about? There was a kid there taking pics?? He took a pic of me and Brian and one of his friends talking– There is actually photographic evidence that I stayed through the Q&A!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

]]> Comment on How to write an intelligent design book by Joshua Zelinsky http://ianramjohn.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/how-to-write-an-intelligent-design-book/#comment-2788 Joshua Zelinsky Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:41:39 +0000 http://ianramjohn.wordpress.com/?p=1051#comment-2788 Angiosperms? Seriously? No one would read it. What Dembski and Behe do works because ) they are using things that people have heard of b) they are subjects which are sexy (malaria is sexy. DNA is sexy. Flowering plants? Not very sexy) c) they are using topics where people feel like they have some tiny background info and so they don't go out and learn a lot more about the subject after they read the material by the ID author. Angiosperms? Seriously? No one would read it. What Dembski and Behe do works because ) they are using things that people have heard of b) they are subjects which are sexy (malaria is sexy. DNA is sexy. Flowering plants? Not very sexy) c) they are using topics where people feel like they have some tiny background info and so they don’t go out and learn a lot more about the subject after they read the material by the ID author.

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