Apple have just put out a new Intel Mac Mini. Disappointing compared to the iMac and the MBP (mine’s not here yet) because it’s not very highly specced. It’s lost the price of the previous G4 versions and not really got much of an advantage. When you buy a Mini, you’re accepting a few things are going to suck, but it’s become too expensive, and lacks a graphics card.
Goodbye to another old foe
Infamous creationist Henry Morris, author of Scientific Creationism and The Genesis Flood, died back on Saturday. Interesting fact number one: Dembski’s blogging it (not DaveScot or any of his other lesser-lettered minions). You’d think that since Judge Jones recently pointed out how ID was just repackaged creationism, they might be trying to rebrand themselves for the next generation’s version of this silly game. Oh well, their loss. Interesting fact number two: a blogger out there has been hanging around at Bob Jones University’s bookstore giggling at all the books by creationists. The late Dr. Morris’ work features quite heavily.
Another field that Dr Morris was involved in, as the Milwaukee Evolution League point out, is “Arkeology”. To those of you outside of the loop, this is attempts to find archeaological evidence of the Ark which Noah built. Let me remind you. 6,000 years ago, shortly after the creation of the world and Adam and Eve’s expulsion of the garden, God decided to punish everybody. Except Noah. And his family. And representatives of every species. So God told Noah to make an Ark which would have to be about the size of the Titanic in order to hold all the species. And so Noah, who’s age was in triple figures (because they lived longer back then, a feature we’ve lost due, no doubt, to sin and E-numbers), and his hardy bunch of companions numbering no more than single figures built in the space of a week (well, exclude shabbat, or Yahweh’ll shtup you in the tokhis, ya damn schmucky mamzer). One boat, seven folk, one week. Then in the next week, round up all the damn animals, merry sailing for a year, land, load them off board, and the huge diversity we’ve seen all happened since they got off the boat. Through evolution - the process which the selfsame creationist say doesn’t exist and is a big fat lie thought up by Charles Darwin to bring about Nazism, communism and lesbians kissing and holding hands. I’m going to miss Dr. Morris’ contributions to this vital area of scientific understanding!
Seriously, though, much as us on the side of reason and science may think that Dr. Morris’ ideas were absolutely, well, fruitcake, it would be totally heartless not to wish condolences to his family. Though I find the current batch of creationists to be a bunch of deceitful cretins, I have more time for some of the older creationists like the late Dr. Morris and also people like Dr. Duane Gish. They’re wrong - almost incalcuably, bordering on mental illness, wrong - about almost everything. But they’re not bad people, I don’t think.
