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[maradydd]

By way of Pharyngula, apparently the creationists are starting to abuse information theory, not just physics, in their tortured attempts to justify their doctrine.

Of course, you understand, this means war.

ETA: /me reads the comments. Oh. Apparently creationists reject Claude Shannon's work on information theory. Infidels. They shall be first against the wall when the revolution comes.

One thing that I will never understand is why creationists believe that an omniscient God is bad at math.

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I know of someone who worked in a lab where there was a grad student secretly getting a cell bio PhD so he could have credentials to write an anti-evolution book. The Moonies supported his family while he was in school.

I'm not that up on information theory - I only touched upon it as it applied to chemical engineering's version of entropy in grad school. Dembski strikes me as an excellent warning to mathematical modelers: "At every step, make sure your model for reality has something to do with reality."