A Critical Review of PROBABILITY ZERO

Someone by the name of Joe Bowers has asserted that Probability Zero is “Ignorant and Unscientific Drivel” and offers what he describes as ” a direct, point-by-point rebuttal of the core mathematical claims” in my book. Let’s see how he did: 1. The “MITTENS” mutation accumulation equationDay argues that the number of mutations required for large-scale […]

PROBABILITY ZERO Q&A

This is where questions related to the #1 Biology, Genetics, and Evolution bestseller PROBABILITY ZERO will be posted along with their answers. The newest questions are on the top. QUESTION: Human beings aren’t bacteria. And humans mutate faster than bacteria. So isn’t it possible that humans fixate mutations faster than 1,600 generations per mutational fixation? […]

Probability and belief

A few days ago, in Probability and the Problem of Life, I pointed out that there is no need to precisely calculate probabilities that we cannot possibly know in order to reach logical conclusions about them. Contra the opinions of the misguided math fetishists, logic is the foundation of math, not the other way around, […]

Probability and the Problem of Life

Yesterday, I observed that most biologists and believers in evolution have a poor grasp of probability. In the subsequent discussion, the otherwise perspicacious wrf3 demonstrated that he is not entirely clear on the difference between math and philosophy, two fields it is rather important to distinguish between despite their occasional overlap: If you’re going to […]

Precognition and probability

Outlaw X and others have noticed Hollywood’s pre-9/11 references to the date: While watching the 1998 film, “Enemy of the State,” I noticed a curious reference to 9/11. A few others online have noticed this as well. As we showed recently, pre-9/11 film references are common, and show more than mere coincidence, especially in the […]

Defeat becomes a probability

As I’ve been writing for the last three years, the neocons and warbangers have no idea what they’re talking about. They don’t know military history, they don’t understand military strategy and they don’t comprehend the likely outcomes of the actions they’ve been advocating. Why so many conservatives continue to pay attention to them and echo […]

Owen on Tucker

Tucker Carlson interviewed Owen Benjamin, nominally about his book, but mostly about the most cancelled man in comedy himself. Owen Benjamin was probably the smartest, wisest person in Hollywood so of course he got canceled harder than anyone in the history of the entertainment business. That’s when he found the secret to happiness. A classically […]