Staunisier

J’aurais été tenté de parler de stauneries (n’importe quoi avec la Jean Staune Touch!) mais Jacques semble préférer staunisier, qui ‘est pas mal non plus.

C’est un forum, inscrivez-vous et allez-y gaiement. Jean appréciera. J’espère au moins.

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Paul Davies & Templeton Foundation

Notes:

Taking Science on Faith by Paul Davies, director of Beyond, sponsored by FQXi, linked with Templeton Foundation, of which Paul Davies is Templeton Prize winner, and member of the board of trustees and member of the board of advisors.

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Turkish ass shuts down a slice of the internet

This is a repost from PZ Myers ScienceBlog, with a few tags inserted (otherwise identical), the link via the title below.
What the fuck is going on on Europ? Would it be necessary tolive in USA to be able to criticize complete idiots? Such as Harun Yahya?

Category: Creationism
Posted on: August 20, 2007 8:13 AM, by PZ Myers

Unbelievable. Adnan Oktar, aka Harun Yahya, the Turkish crackpot creationist, didn’t like the fact that his critics wrote mean things about him … so he applied to a Turkish court to have all WordPress blogs blocked. And the court accepted his argument, and no one in Turkey has been able to access anything from WordPress.com for a day or two now.

Man, I was once mooned on the freeway by a guy in a Chevy. Does this mean I can get Chevrolet to recall all of their cars in the state of Minnesota now? That would sure teach him.

That fanatical nitwit wrote in to wordpress to brag about his accomplishment and demand that blogs that offend him be shut down, such as this one, and by the way, he’d also like all these blogs censored:

http://adnanoktar.wordpress.com
http://adnanoktarveislam.wordpress.com/
http://fitikado.wordpress.com
http://oktarbabuna.wordpress.com
http://adnancilar.wordpress.com/
http://adnanoktarveislam.wordpress.com/
http://whoisharunyahya.wordpress.com/
http://adnanoktargercekleri.wordpress.com/
http://quiestharunyahya.wordpress.com/
http://harunyahyaarabic.wordpress.com/
http://safsataciharunyahya.wordpress.com/
http://savsatalaracevap.wordpress.com/

It sure would be a shame if someone echoed all those urls, and these anti-creationist blogs got more publicity and attention because of a stunt by Adnan Oktar, now wouldn’t it?

It is easy to treat this as a joke and an amazing act of pig-headed stupidity by a creationist, but we shouldn’t forget the scary part: a government with a pious judiciary was rather easily inclined to endorse mass, indiscriminate censorship on the whim of an evil clown.

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P.S. Here’s a way to get around the block — you can still read and post to WordPress blogs in Turkey if you use OpenDNS. Spread the word.

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Where DaveScot make it clear…

…that Intelligent Design isn’t science.

In another thread there’s a discussion about specified complexity. I think the problem with specification is it’s a subjective measure but it shouldn’t be hard to understand. Most people intuitively recognize it and draw conclusions from it. (emphasis mine)

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Incursion

Benoît XVI est pour l’évolution théiste. Ce qui ne signifie pas grand chose en soit, puisque le théos peut intervenir à n’importe quel moment pour remettre les pendules à l’heure dans l’imaginaire catholique.

Il ne soutient pas l’Intelligent Design, mais semble soutenir le Rational Design, avec quelques couilles dans le pâté :

Source: Benedict argued that evolution had a rationality that the theory of purely random selection could not explain.
« The process itself is rational despite the mistakes and confusion as it goes through a narrow corridor choosing a few positive mutations and using low probability, » he said. (emphasis mine – OldCola)

🙂 Rational Design pour le Pape donc.

Bon, du coup Denyse O’Learry ne semble pas être contente et en bonne communicante elle essaie de prendre le taureau par les cornes :

No, I’ll bet B-16 doesn’t think that either. For a more credible idea of Catholic thought on the subject, go here

[here linked to ARN, one of her own post dated 06/07/06!
Denyse knows better and in advance ;-)].

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en VF

Après avoir entendu Vincent Fleury parler de sa théorie on comprend mieux ce qu’il a écrit sur le forum de SLT.

VF ne croit pas à la cellule totipotente et à la possibilité du génome de déterminer l’embryon. Il y a vachement réfléchi, d’après ce qu’il dit, mais il semble être passé à côté du clonage à partir de cellules somatiques; vous savez, la manip qui consiste à placer un noyau de cellule dans un ovule énucléé pour obtenir un nouvel individu sans avoir recours à des gamètes. Pas une manip facile, mais courante de nos jours pour plein d’animaux simples de ceux qui nous entourent, du genre qui intéressent VF. Il semble également être passé à côté des démonstrations qui ont fait la preuve de la puissance des cellules souches, par exemple pour produire des os en éctopique. Bref, il a réfléchi sans s’y connaître en biologie, ou en écartant les cas qui ne sont pas en accord avec sa théorie.

Je préfère le considérer comme profondément ignare, plutôt que malhonnêtement sélectif quant aux cas qu’il choisit d’ignorer, parce que ça laisse un espoir de récupération. 🙂

Reste quand même un point fort inquiétant dans son discours; il confond allègrement les diverses significations des mots, comme « sens » et « évolution ». Pour quelqu’un qui se montre particulièrement soucieux de la signification des mots (voir « parano », 19-01-2007 à 14:57, 19-01-2007 à 15:22) il ne semble pas se soucier de la façon dont lui il s’en sert. Et il a une nette tendance à discuter de la théorie de l’évolution avec 150 ans de retard dans ses lectures. Peut-être qu’il n’est pas récupérable après tout.

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Thanksgivings prayer [A Blog Around The Clock]

Thanksgivings prayer [A Blog Around The Clock]: « Thank God we do not have to say a prayer tonight! »

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singularite(s)

On évoque volontiers lors de discussions entre néocréationnistes (qui s’assument ne serais-ce qu’en privé, même en étant du genre principe créateur; il y en a quelques uns) et évolutionnistes (non allergiques au dialogue et ne méprisant pas leurs interlocuteurs, ce qui aide le dialogue), l’avantage évolutionnaire que représente la religiosité envers l’athéisme. Il s’agit de religiosité et non pas du sentiment d’existence d’un espace surnaturel; de la tentative d’organisation de la pensée, rationnelle ou non, sous forme de religion.

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Pornography in the Biology Curriculum

via WoodMoor Village

Yikes!, some will argue, pornography is very offensive and degrading of the human condition. Ok, and why wouldn’t that apply to some religious accounts? (ed note: Notice that « some. ») Religious belief systems have historically done both of those things, and religious beliefs are a large part of why we have (and continue to engage) engaged in wholesale slaughter in this world. This is not to equate pornography and religion at all, some religions are very nice and kindly thank you very much. Still, the claim to offensiveness can be leveled against religion also, especially when the state cannot express a preference or limit what kind of religious belief we should hold (as in here in the U.S.).

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what is it?

I was summarizing my posts about Anne Dambricourt, wandering if there is enough staff to make a short paper. The answer is probably no, this kind of elements are available on books already. But the I came across that:

As I like building models I set up a few variations around my central idea which came during the debate: cumulative mutations in a single genetic spot progressively leading to a threshold over which phenotypic variations appears suddenly due to the intervention of a second genetic element. [as I’m expecting Jean Staune et al to answer the question « what is it? » I’ll edit this part later to insert the known example]. It takes a little bit more complexity to make it appear discontinuous and accelerating over time, but is just a little bit more, nothing really complex.

And this is the last call! I’ll give them some more time.

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