John Wilkins has left Scienceblogs to start anew at Evolving Thoughts Mk. III. I'm pretty sure it's because of a) pure philosophical bloody-mindedness, b) chronic embarrassment at his inability to spell "Mghrz'z" properly, and c) something to do with being Australian, which is a legitimate excuse for all kinds of contrary behavior.
Unfortunately, he's still planning to occasionally chew over my heathenish ways, so I guess I'll have to continue to keep my eyes on him.
- Log in to post comments
More like this
Unfortunately, he still doesn't understand the gist of our complaint, but he does clarify a few issues.
I do not, and did not, deny the established fact -- arrived at by extensive scientific research -- that average global temperatures have increased by a bit less than one Celsius degree. My…
Wilkins is not happy that I jumped down Pagels' throat for a stupid comment in an interview. He thinks I ought to take Pagels more seriously (as did some of the commenters here), and, unfortunately, also goes on to mischaracterize the uppity atheist arguments, like so:
This is what I reject about…
It's Saturday and therefore time for some lazy non-science blogging, especially since after I finish this post I'm going to bury myself in grant writing. Multiple grant deadlines are approaching, and, given that most of my grant support expires towards the middle of next year, I have to go full…
It has now been 5 days since I posted absolute, undeniable proof that Dembski's claims concerning why Jeff Shallit didn't testify at the Dover trial were false. That proof was in the form of a motion filed by the defense and Judge Jones' ruling on that motion, which proves incontrovertibly that…