Feb

13

Why There Is No God #1

February 13, 2009 by Brandon | 1 Comment

I’m going to start doing an ongoing series of posts which simply present an article in the news that demonstrates why there is no God.

For the first entry, I turn your attention to Clarence, New York, where today Flight 3407 crashed into a home, killing 50 people, which included all 49 on board.

Plane crashes and God sound familiar? Of course, how could we forget the “miracle” on the Hudson, where God clearly intervened to save the lives of all those on board from certain doom? I suppose those on Flight 3407 mustn’t have been worthy of God’s mercy.

Or, more likely, there is no God.



Feb

13

What Illusion?

February 13, 2009 by Brandon | 3 Comments



Feb

12

Wordle

February 12, 2009 by Brandon | Leave a Comment



Feb

12

Expelled

February 12, 2009 by Brandon | Leave a Comment

 Happy Darwin Day!

Apologies for being AWOL lately. I had been making posts at work, but due to various factors, like it becoming busier around this time, as well as the Comcast Gestapo cracking down on everyone, I haven’t been able to spend any of my spare time at work updating the blog.

Anyway. I recently made two purchases which have been long overdue. First, I bought the wireless adapter for my XBOX 360. It let’s me play games online and do various other things with the system that I really had no idea it could do. Second, I got a Netfix subscription. These two go hand-in-hand because I can now stream movies over my 360 to my TV. Technology is delicious.

One movie that I was overjoyed to find in the Watch Instantly section of Netflix was Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. I’ve always wanted to see the “controversial” documentary ever since I first heard of it, and especially after the whole thing where they expelled PZ Myers from a screening of it. PZ and other noted atheists like Dawkins and Dennitt were featured in the documentary, which was less focused on attempting to demonstrate how the Intelligent Design movement is a valid scientific theory (which it is not, and which is why they didn’t even bother to try) and more focused on showing how rabid atheists are just trying to silence the fair exchange of ideas.

The movie opens and is littered with a continious stream of stock footage of nazis and communists parading around. Because you know, scientists who don’t allow bullshit ideas, that haven’t a shred of evidence to support them, to be published are just a bunch of nazis.

Right off the bat the film bashes us over the head with a logical fallacy, reductio ad Hitlerum. But whatever.

What amazed me most was the one question that was never asked. Not once. The one question that stops Intelligent Design in its tracks, in my opinion.

Who designed the intelligent designer?

The whole ID argument boils down to this: Life is too complex for it to have happened on its own. There must have been a designer to create it.

And this leads us to another logical fallacy. Argumentum ad infinitum. It’s an infinite regress if you have a creator. Because if you’re saying that “creation” requires a creator because it’s so complex, then the creator too must be even more complex than the creation and thus requires a creator as well. But then that creator too needs a creator. And so on and so on. Of course, IDers stop at God, and simply say God always was. But that isn’t an answer; that isn’t science.

In any event, the movie was as stupid as I thought it would be. It hurt my brain.



What is Fractal Wrongness?

The state of being wrong at every conceivable scale of resolution. That is, from a distance, a fractally wrong person's worldview is incorrect; and furthermore, if you zoom in on any small part of that person's worldview, that part is just as wrong as the whole worldview.

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