Recently, William Dembski, the tireless crusader against scientific rigor, and Michael Shermer, one of my favorite authors, were involved in a debate at Bridgewater College, a small liberal arts school affiliated with the Church of the Brethren. It was hostile territory for Michael Shermer, who is used to being outnumbered. I remember quite well his taking on four different guests on Coast to Coast AM, debating each of them on some psuedoscientific nonsense.

While I didn’t get to be there, of course, I thought it was interesting to see two different takes on the debate.

Panda’s Thumb has a nice write up here: Shermer and Dembski in Bridgewater

And on the ID side, we have a writeup from Dembski’s blog “Uncommon Descent”: “Bill Dembski is world famous” says creationism’s prodigal son Michael Shermer

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I’m dropping the paranormal digest for now, because I’m unable to dedicate the time to make it useful in such a way that benefits me. The new blog is as much for me as an audience.

Today, under a deluge of spam and dictionary attacks, I retired the email address shane@jxie.com. I’ve used it for a little over 8 years now, and at first it was a neat thing to have; lately it has become a cesspool for spam. I knew this day would come and had completed moving all my important notifications to my gmail address. All my accounts, such as Ebay, Amazon, and my bank have all had their information updated with the same email address. I’m using gmail because it’s fast, ubiquitous, and seemingly has unending storage. It took me almost a year to start using gmail, but I’m hooked now.

If you need my email address, send me a message on AIM, screenname shanepbrady.