[UPDATE: This entry probably comes off as incredibly mean-spirited, and this may have something to do with me being rather sleep-deprived and irritable today. I'm at home and eating toast now, which seems to be lifting my spirits no end]
One of the dumbest things I’ve encountered in the last few days is this website run by a guy who thinks the entire universe is only a few thousand years old, and attempts to justify this belief with random cribbed equations, citing Schrodinger and others into the bargain. This is one of the worst kinds of stupid, because the guy is wasting his time searching for scientific literature to justify his belief that God made everything approximately 6000 years ago. This fervent search for any scraps he can find to justify a groundless hypothesis, all the while discounting the vast bulk of human knowledge in the fields of physics, geology, cosmology, biology and even archaeology is what marks him as a moron, as opposed to just plain wrong.
According to Mr Moron, this First Fundamental Theorem of Intelligent Design was "derived by the renowned physicists John Barrow a[nd] Frank Tipler from Schrodinger′s equation of quantum mechanics."
I’m not sure if this impressive picture of some mathematical notation from a book is supposed to be the theorem itself, or merely the equation whence it sprung. Although apparently it does predict the existence of the Judeo-Christian God.
When not attributing rape, murder, cannibalism, horse-fucking etc to Darwinism, Mr Moron likes to point out just how stupid the original Darwinist was:
Darwinism does not hold a candle to the series of equations listed below. This is real science versus mindless Darwinism. There is more science represented in these equations than Ed Brayton or Liz Craig, or for that matter Charles Darwin ever comprehended.
He then goes on to display a few more equations which are possibly related to Fourier transforms, an invaluable tool in signal analysis. I am inclined to agree with him that Darwin would probably not have known what to make of these, but then Darwin was a biologist and not a mathematician, and advanced signal analysis hardly seems relevant to his scientific contributions.
9/10 on the moron scale.
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