Erika Needs Help

Fair enough. She’s going to need all the help that she can get. But I really fail to see what difference it’s going to make, no matter how many butterfly collectors she assembles.

GIVE ME YOUR OPINIONS ON VOX DAY’S WORK TO APPEAR IN AN UPCOMING VIDEO:

Hey guys (and Mr. Theodore Beale)

As I compose a video on the work of Creationist/Bad Guy Vox Day (Theodore Beale) I have been paying close attention to his blog. You will be pleased to know he has posted an update to his evolution-defeater: Mittens 3.0 (for real this time).

Additionally this man has been crashing out and obsessively making blog posts responding to Youtube comments (instead of just responding to the comments). For this morning’s post we see this charming line regarding friends of the channel Grayson and Creation Myths:

“It should be amusing to catalog all of the various things this slur is going to get wrong in his desperate attempt to prove that math which has been confirmed by every major AI system and more than 10 math PhDs is “stupid”.”

Setting aside the AI stuff, wow 10 math phds! Now I am only aware of three people with doctorates who have “vetted” Day’s work, and they are all associates of the Discovery Institute, but I thought this might be a fun opportunity.

Many of you are highly credentialed and have atomized various portions of Day’s anti-evolution “model” here and elsewhere. I thought it might be fun to compile a list to act as both a resource for why this clown is wrong and as a fun dig in an upcoming video of mine.

Here’s the activity:

If you have a bachelors, masters, or doctorate and have reviewed any of Day’s work please leave a comment outlining your favorite blunder and your credentials.

It does not have to be limited to Mittens 3.0 because Probability Zero (which contains all prior errors) is still for sale and therefore is a part of the public record until Day issues a formal retraction.

This list will appear in an upcoming video of mine so please keep that in mind before commenting! I’m hoping to have a nice count of “credentialed people who think Day’s math (+ assumptions which go into it) is steaming hot garbage”.

Additional acknowledgements:

  • No Day is not worth any of our time but since his work was broadcast to my audience I have a responsibility to provide a detailed counter.
  • Yes Day is a dweeb

This is fascinating. The more credentials, the merrier, I always say. So. Many. Skulls!

Are you not entertained!

I am, of course, deeply intimidated by this formidable army of credentialed academics being arrayed against me. I feel like Sauron in Mordor, alone and surrounded by implacable foes.

Is this how it always ends for dark lords?

Will there never be a happy ending?

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