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William Broad
Science Writer, New York Times My Dearest Mr. Broad, I, Dr. Azo Mazur, write with the happy news that you, Mr. Broad, have been chosen as the most recent inductee into the Assault on Science: Hall of Fame. Congratulations for exemplary work with which you have conned the public by way of a marvelous Fabricated Scientific Controversy on the subject of global warming. Teach the Controversies! Each and every one. The competition was keen, but your recent article stood out above all others. I have been given the honor of introducing you to our black tie audience. Could you please assist me by providing a little background information? Inquiring minds want to know the following: 1) What shattering experience in high school chemistry class caused you to despise science? 2) When will you and Judith Miller apologize for the discredited May 21 2003 article that hyped Iraqi mobile germ producing units. This article is supported by 17 references to anonymous administration and military officials and zero references to named government officials. Do you call that journalism? 3) Was your family proud when one week later, on May 29, 2003, George Bush followed your lead and said, "... we found biological laboratories." 4) When will you write an article in the New York Times about the Chemical Periodicity Controversy? Your induction ceremony is April 3, 2007 at 7:30 PM at our Tacoma headquarters. We will honor your contribution to the ID movement and your assistance in the reduction of science to wreckage and rubble. Your role on drumming up support for the Iraq war will be rewarded at a later date. Sincerely, Dr. Azo Mazur CEO, reDiscovery Institute Author: The Trouble with Guanine | |
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From: Joshua xxxxxxx Date: Nov 20, 2006 10:04 PM Subject: really? To: azo.mazur@gmail.com you people are a bunch of morons if you got your noses out of the bible for a second or two you would realize god wanted you to observe the world around you instead of believing what other people wrote thousands of years ago to help control the lower classes. for the sake of intellegence stop what you are doing and read something other than the bible to find all of your answers. | |
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From: xxxxxxx Date: Oct 30, 2006 1:43 PM Subject: ID and Catholic guilt To: azo.mazur@gmail.com Dear Dr. Azo Mazur, All I can say is poor Prof. Behe, he's trapped in Catholic guilt. I attended St. Margaret Mary's Catholic Church and school with him so I can see how he came to some of his conclusions about ID. Fortunately for me I was able to cast off the traumas of that early childhood and adolescent indoctrination and just chalk it up as an unfortunate learning experience. At first I just thought Mike Behe was a lazy scientist, "gee I can't figure this out so therfore it must be God". After further thought on the matter I can now see that if I was unable to escape the delusions of the upbringing that he and I shared, I too would have an overwhelming need to jusify it and overlook all evidence that showed it as a cruel and abusive joke. I still see Mr. Behe's father at the Knights of Columbus, hey the beer is cheap, I can't bring myself to tell him that I think his son is a deluded fool. That would be rude and lapsed Catholic social members tread on thin ice. Sincerely xxxxxxx | |
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To: azo-mazur@gmail.com Date: Aug 15, 2006 4:10 PM Subject: Discovery Institute Contact Information Dear Dr. Azo Mazur, It has just come to my attention that your site www.re-discovery.org claims our phone number as the reDiscovery Institute's own - see http://www.re-discovery.org/contact.html . Please correct this and any other instances immediately. We also ask that you take care to limit your content to parody and not slander. Please refrain from saying false or slanderous things about our fellows and staff. Sincerely, xxxxx ================================= xxxxx Director of Information Services Discovery Institute (206) 292-0401 x114 http://www.discovery.org ================================= | |
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From: Azo Mazur To: xxxxx Date: Aug 16, 2006 1:01 PM Subject: Re: Discovery Institute Contact Information Dear xxxxx, I do apologize about the phone number mix-up. Our institutes have so much in common that sometimes they seem to merge into a single unified entity, with common noble purpose. But rest assured that I did correct the phone number lest we jam up your switchboard. I will comb carefully through the extensive publication list of our institute's fellows, searching for slander. Sincerely, Azo Author: The Trouble with Guanine | |
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On Jan 19, 2006, at 4:58 PM, xxxxx wrote: Hi there. Your site's really amusing. I wanted to find out who's behind it - and perhaps run a short item about it in Newsmakers, a section I edit here at Science magazine. Let me know if you'd be willing to talk. Thanks, xxxxx Staff Writer SCIENCE magazine | |
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On Jan 20, 2006, at 1:57 PM, Azo Mazur wrote: Hello Science Magazine, I, Dr. Azo Mazur, am expressing my pleasure at the notice being given to the fine work of our institute, as indicated by the recent email from you, who publishes such a nice glossy pamphlet. We would like to have you out to Tacoma to visit our institute. We could arrange for a tour of the Hall of Fame, and allow you to participate in a game of Texas Design-em and Hold-em. Coincidentally the annual meeting of our Board of Directors will be taking place tomorrow and the next day and the next, during which we will more thoroughly discuss your proposal. Sincerely, Dr. Azo Mazur CEO reDiscovery Institute Author of "The Trouble with Guanine" | |
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On Jan 20, 2006 3:50 PM, xxxxx wrote: Stop! I'm falling off my chair. No seriously, will you please reveal yourself and provide a phone number? xxxxx | |
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On Jan 24, 2006 at 11:42 PM, Azo Mazur wrote: My Dearest Friend xxxxx, Please, I am hoping you can find it in yourself to excuse my slow response to your last query. I, Dr. Azo Mazur, have been preoccupying myself with the Periodic Table, attempting to resolve the Helium conundrum. Should Helium be Group 0, over Neon, or Group IIA, over beryllium? Such are the weighty issues that press hard upon me, heavily, which must be considered ironic considering the buoyancy of Helium. I, Dr. Azo Mazur, did, even though my schedule is full, find a moment to peruse your glossy pamphlet. It is pretty, so pretty. But I believe your pamphlet would cause considerable upset to my friend, in a past life, the honorable Robert Boyle. Maybe you are hearing of Robert, no? He once did some clever experiments with gases. But that was long ago, and so it is probably not relevant to your modern glossy pamphlet. Well Robert told me that he believes scientists should be publishing complete descriptions of experimental methods and results, even the results of unsuccessful experiments. If you meet Robert in some future life, he might express some objection to the sketchiness, in this regard, of your glossy pamphlet, which he will admit, I am sure, is pretty. So, did you want to talk? We could meet, possibly, for a beer? In what part of Tacoma do you live? Your friend, Dr. Azo Mazur CEO reDiscovery Institute Author: The Trouble with Guanine | |
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On Feb 2, 2006 12:50 AM, Dr Azo Mazur wrote: Dear Dr. xxxxx, I, Dr. Azo Mazur, am profusely congratulating you on your witty exposition (Scientific hypothesis? Ain't Hardly): http://www3.lehigh.edu/News/news_story.asp?iNewsID=1631 I do wish to pose a question to you, if you will be so kind. Can you tell me, in short concise prose, stressing short, how marvelous it is, as a professor at Lehigh University, to work along side, on a daily basis, every day, neglecting weekends, the Famous Dr. Michael Behe? Are your offices in proximity? Do you share a bathroom? To reward you, in advance, for the shortness and concision your answers, I will present you with the Intelligent Design Table of the Elements (see attached). And I invite you to attend the Greer-Heard Point-Counterpoint/Sense-Nonsense Symposium, where you will have the opportunity to hear me explain "The Trouble with Guanine". http://www.re-discovery.org/Greer-Heard/Greer-Heard.html And finally my publishers are demanding that I ask how frequently you assign "Big Behe" (http://www.re-discovery.org/behe.html) in your undergraduate classes. Please inform. Sincerely, Dr. Azo Mazur CEO reDiscovery Institute Author: The Trouble with Guanine | |
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On Feb 2, 2006 11:16 AM, xxxxx wrote: My office and Prof. Behe's are separated by a full mountainside, so there's no question of sharing any facility, let alone a bathroom! I have used secondary materials relating to ID in my philosophy of science courses, but I have never assigned Darwin's Black Box as a text. I didn't intend my critique of ID to be witty. I do think that it is accurate, though. Sincerely, xxxxx | |
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From: Azo Mazur To: xxxxx@darwindaycelebration.org Date: Jan 17, 2006 11:59 PM Subject: some helpful information for you from the reDiscovery Institute Dear Dr. xxxxx, Congratulations on your efforts with Darwin Day. Darwin was a scientist, and for that he should be celebrated. I do accept your offer to list me, Dr. Azo Mazur, along with other prominent scientists, educators, philosophers, and writers who support your efforts to celebrate science and humanity. Unfortunately we have been chosen by the agent to inform you of technical errors in your announcement. Sadly carbon forms four bonds, not two. Nitrogen forms three bonds not two [see image above]. Or maybe you know something new about chemical design we do not. Have you been in contact with the designing agent? If so, please give details. We do congratulate you on your brand new and wonderfully creative numbering scheme for the atoms of adenosine. But those are details, maybe best forgotten. I, Dr. Azo Mazur, am very nearly convinced that you are already knowing about our celebration of science: the Greer-Heard Symposium (www.re-discovery.org/Greer-Heard/Greer-Heard.html). Please attend! Please do! This conference is organized in part by the reDiscovery Institute (www.re-discovery.org). We invite you to peruse our Institute's stylish web site, and maybe to visit us physically and in person, if you are so inclined. Sincerely, Dr Azo Mazur CEO reDiscovery Institute | |
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From: Dr. xxxxx To: Azo Mazur Date: Jan 19, 2006 1:11 AM Subject: Re: some helpful information for you from the reDiscovery Institute Ah, you're right! I presume you mean the detailed left hand side of the blue drawing at the top of every page. But as a former graduate student in biochemistry and molecular biology, I do assert that sometimes chemists leave the hydrogens only implied, not explicitly shown. Particularly in the case of DNA, where the pattern is so well known, people can easily figure out where the H's must be. As to the proper numbering of the ring atoms of adenosine, I have to leave that consideration until after this year's Darwin Day. People are signing up themselves and their events in rising numbers. It feels like those videos of the tsunami cresting near the seashore! - Info Person, for Dr. xxxxx and xxxxx, at DarwinDay.org | |
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From: Dr. xxxxx To: Azo Mazur Date: Jan 18, 2006 10:24 PM Subject: [Fwd: Re: some helpful information for you from the reDiscovery Institute] Oh, Azo, I looked briefly at your Web site and now I can provide you with some helpful information for your "critique": of the Periodic Table: around 1960 scientists changed the basis of the atomic weights from the (not always the same in different places) natural mixture of oxygen isotopes being defined as a weight of 16 to weights based on (readily purified) carbon 12 defined as 12.0000000000000 (exactly). It shifted the last digits of the atomic weights a bit. But don't worry --- I was able to cope with it. And it showed me that sometimes apparent differences are just a matter of how we use words or numbers. xxxxx, aka Info Person | |
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From: Azo Mazur To: rstephens@darwindaycelebration.org Date: Jan 20, 2006 1:04 PM Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: some helpful information for you from the reDiscovery Institute] My Dear Drs. xxxxx and xxxxx, I, Azo Mazur, do thank you, and so does my staff, for the information you have provided to us regarding revisions of the Periodic Table. My gosh, they changed all the atomic weights? This is further proof, as if more were needed, that Mendeleevists think no one is watching. But we are watching. We will publicize your finding by adding it to the very next edition of the Periodic Table, which we plan to publish in the near future. And Dr. Stephens, if you do plan on adding hydrogens to your adenine, sufficient to give the correct number of bonds to your carbons and nitrogens, you will end up with SP3 hybridization. So your adenine will be non-planer. This might require consultation with the designing agent, don't you think, because the structure of DNA, once you wrinkle up all the adenines like that, is anybody's guess. Even I, Dr. Azo Mazur, can't accurately predict what might happen. Do you plan on wrinkling C, G, and T, along with A? Please, be careful. Affectionately, Dr. Azo Mazur Author: The Trouble with Guanine | |
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From: Dr. xxxxx To: Azo Mazur Date: Jan 20, 2006 6:25 PM Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: some helpful information for you from the reDiscovery Institute] Dear Dr. Mazur, As to wrinkling C,G,and T, it really hadn't crossed our minds to do so. ;-) And as to those sp3 bonding angles ... doesn't the perfection of the tetrahedron make you suspect there must be some sort of "intelligent manufacturer" to make such things? ... Me either! Yours for real science, carefully, - xxxxx and xxxxx, at DarwinDay.org | |
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From: Azo Mazur To: mruse@mailer.fsu.edu, dembski@discovery.org Date: Jan 12, 2006 8:25 PM Subject: Greer-Heard Point-Counterpoint Forum Dear Drs. Dembski and Ruse, We at the reDiscovery Institute are very pleased to read that the two of you will be in Atlanta on February 3-4 to speak at the Greer-Heard Point-Counterpoint Forum - Exploring the Tensions of Faith and Culture. As you are no doubt aware, the reDiscovery Institute has a Branch Office in Atlanta, and what a happy coincidence it is that I, Dr. Azo Mazur, Director of the reDiscovery Institute (www.re-discovery.org), will be in Atlanta during the whole month of February. I am assuming, in good faith, that there has been a communications breakdown. I, and my colleagues, feel it is quite inappropriate that I have not been invited to speak at the symposium along with you, since Atlanta is the home of one of the Branch Offices of the reDiscovery Institute, and I, Dr Azo Mazur, am the father of the Chemical Design Movement. I therefore will be thanking you very much for an invitation to speak at the symposium. Please inform me as the specific starting time of my formal talk, which will require 90 minutes. In addition, I will conceed to 30 minutes for discussion, in which the audience is permitted to ask me respectful questions and hear my profound but sometimes humorous responses. The topic of my talk is one of my long-running research interests, "The Trouble with Guanine", in which I convince the audience of the necessity of a primordial G-less genome. Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to ask you both to come and visit the Atlanta Branch Office of the reDiscovery Institute for tea, and possibly a few hands of "Texas Design-em and Hold-em". In case you are not familiar with this popular new game, it is the same as "Texas Hold-em", except the dealer is allowed to cheat. After the game, I will present you both with signed copies of the reDiscovery Institute Periodic Table. You can individually choose between the Cobb County and Kansas editions. Most sincerely, Dr. Azo Mazur Senior Fellow of the reDiscovery Institute's Center for Chemistry and Society www.re-discovery.org Sedgwick Professor of Conceptual Foundations of Chemistry at the Washington Institute of Technology. Executive Director of the National Society for Chemistry and Complexity Nobel Prize nominee | |
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On Apr 6, 2006 3:28 PM, xxxxx wrote: Thank you for your recent Blog Carnival submission. Here is a receipt for the article you submitted via the Blog Carnival submission form. Carnival: Darwin is dead carnival Next scheduled: unknown Article to submit Permalink URL: http://www.re-discovery.org/guanine.html Title: The Trouble with Guanine Article Blog Blog URL: http://www.re-discovery.org/ Name: Dr. Azo Mazur Additional information Submitter name: Dr. Azo Mazur Submitter e-mail: azo.mazur@gmail.com Remarks: none | |
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"The Trouble with Guanine" was posted on the Darwin is Dead Carnival, here: http://radaractive.blogspot.com/2006/06/darwin-is-dead-part-two.html | |
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On Mar 20, 2006, at 3:04 AM, Jude xxxxx wrote: I love the re-Discovery Institute. How can I become a felon in your distinguished institution? Sincerely Jude xxxxx Sacramento State University | |
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On Mar 1, 2006, at 9:52 PM, David xxxxx wrote: Sirs/Madames; I offer you my appreciation for your fine website. Glorious satire such as yours is a rare thing. Sincere Regards, David xxxxx | |
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On Jan 25, 2006, at 11:53 PM, Azo Mazur wrote: Dear Dr. Francl, I am most happy to see that you are a chemist who is having a blog. I Dr. Mazur am a chemist, also. Dr. Francl I do confess that I was in a mood bordering on disappointment when viewing the BBC Periodic Table on your blog. I can only be hoping that it is ignorance and not maliciousness that is causing you to ignore the more modern and correct Table of the Elements, which we have posted here: www.re-discovery.org/per_table.html I invite you to the Greer-Heard Forum during which time we can have lively discussions about whether Helium is best as Group IIA or as Group VIIA. Please come to the Forum. You can see the program here: www.re-discovery.org/Greer-Heard/Greer-Heard.html Yes, you will have the opportunity to meet with me, Dr. Azo Mazur, and to hear my views on Chemical Design and other important issues of the day, as I am a PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL. I will be most happy to sign for you your personal copy of the reDiscovery Institute Periodic Table, which you can then frame and display in your Chemistry Office, where you probably think about things chemical, as do I in my Chemistry Office. Having Best Regards, Dr. Azo Mazur, CEO reDiscovery Institute Author: The Trouble with Guanine | |
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On Mar 31, 2006, at 6:47 PM, Bruce xxxxx wrote: I've just read the single pager for Literature. It is good to see that the internet has allowed people with no coherency a voice. It is a terrible inaccuracy to assume that there cannot possibly be genius without 'divine intervention' or an intelligent designer. Being honest, this is fundamentally the claim the article makes. Leonardo Da Vinci, Albert Einstein,Thomas Edison and a multitude of others can simply not exist based on the premise put forward in this article. Furthermore, the extreme leap to suggest that even if genius were NOT possible, it somehow proves that there is a intelligent design behind it. This is,in every way, shape and form a total non-sequitur. The second last paragraph says "Its a powerful argument, and one that needs to be looked at say the IDL supporters. " It is untrue. It is not a powerful argument in the least. On reading the Mission statement, 'Teaching the controversies' is also a patent untruth. There is no controversy except for the silliness generated by thinly-veiled Christian creationists. There is a reason that Intelligent Design and creationism has fallen out of favour: We have more knowledge than was available to a simpler age where basic medicine, information, education and critical thought was unheard of. At that time, the likes of the Bible was understandable and gave the answers sought. There is no excuse to continue down this path, and this rubbish of Intelligent Design, or 'God of the gaps' is simply a cop-out for mental laziness. I encourage Re-discovery to abandon the ID line and focus its formidable energies into something useful. | |
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On Feb 7, 2006, at 2:09 PM, Scot xxxxx wrote: Hey CEO, Refreshing to rediscover high-school chemistry! On your page: http://www.re-discovery.org/ten_questions.html I found: 5. QUANTUM MECHANICS. Hey teacher, to you really believe it? In which "to" should probably be spelled "do", like: 5. QUANTUM MECHANICS. Hey teacher, do you really believe it? Thanks for the laugh! --Scot | |
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On Feb 3, 2006, at 11:15 PM, Romeo xxxxx wrote: I recommend that you informe us on the hypothesis of the Aquatic Ape, of Elaine Morgan and Alister Hardy. - Albert xxxxx, Student of Barcelona | |
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On Dec 30, 2005, at 11:38 PM, Stirling xxxxx wrote: You should include the point that Sir Isaac Newton believed that the solar system required a designer, because he could not find any way for one body to capture others in the formation observed. | |
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On Dec 22, 2005, at 12:04 AM, Sebastian xxxxx wrote: Dr. Mazur, I want to sincerely congratulate you for the amazing website you have created, the reDiscovery institute is the best argument we may ever encounter for Intelligent Design Theory. Sarcasm aside, the site should include the Theory of Intelligent Falling as a challenge to gravitational theory, reported in The Onion, just for kicks. I just recently wrote a paper on intelligent design for my english composition class, and so I got to be acquainted with ID movement and its arguments. By the way, I am a Biochemistry undergraduate student and well, I just wanted to thank you for the great laughs your site provided me. | |
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On Dec 13, 2005, at 7:40 PM, Doug xxxxx wrote: Dr. Mazur, I read your re-discovery site and experienced a revelation. How could I have been a Mendeleevian for so many years, especially when he was a bigamist? And let's not forget that he guessed at some elements that he hadn't observed, making it look like he actually knew more than he did. And the Schrodinger wave equation, of course. How can those Mendeleevian chemical periodicists have a complete theory of the elements when they only know the mathematical equation for simple hydrogen? I mean their theory predicts well over 100 elements. That's quite a large number, don't you think? And those Mendeleevians only know the wave equation for one of them? That's not even 1%. They call that a 'theory'? Honestly, this makes it so obvious that the results of the neo-Mendeleevian synthesis are just plain guesses. Thanks to you, I now believe in the Truth. Chemical Design. Honestly, I found the site hilarious. You could post hashed testimonials of the Truth of Chemical Design like the paragraph above on your site if you like. We'll teach those chemical periodicists a thing or three. How big of a difference exists between 'what is actual' and 'what is possible'? Douglas xxxxx | |
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On Nov 23, 2005, at 2:02 AM, John xxxxx wrote: Hello Dr. Mazur, I wish to notify you of an outstanding effort by a journalist, public servant, etc in promoting the Design Movement. Who? Scott Adams, Dilbert Cartoonist Where? http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2005/11/intelligent_des.html When? Last few weeks Your obt servant | |
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On Oct 23, 2005, at 8:40 PM, John xxxxx wrote: Found this: "In contrast to the situation of the 1890s, when the reconcilers of Thomism struggled with evolution and Aristotelian cosmology, the most serious problem of the 1870s was the relationship between Thomism and modern chemistry, especially the composition of bodies." Since Thomas had bought Aristotle's substance doctrine, the essence of, say, water, was its form+substance. Hence atomism had to be false, necessitating a bit of a dance by one Pere H. Ramier. Paul, H. W. (1979). The edge of contingency: French Catholic reaction to scientific change from Darwin to Duhem. Gainesville, University Presses of Florida: A University of Florida Book. page 184ff -- John xxxxx, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Queensland - Blog: evolvethought.blogspot.com | |
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On Oct 10, 2005, at 8:02 AM, Rosalie xxxxx wrote: Leiden, 10th October 2005 Dear Sir/Madam, The Intelligent Design theory has interested me very much. I'd like to know more about this theory, so could you please send me some more information about this subject? I hope to hear from you soon. Yours faithfully, Rosalie xxxxx | |
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Good evening; I've been trying to find your reDiscovery Channel on our DirectTV satellite feed, but have not been successful. I get the Pat Robertson/700 Club, EWTN, Jimmy Swaggert, The Crouches, and Dr. Schuler's Crystal Cathedral, Charlie Rose and RFD-TV, but no reDiscovery.... even the original Discovery Channel has been turned into the Military Channel by Undersecretary of Defense Feith..... I think they call it a Propaganda Channel now.... So what should I do now? Please help. Oh, yes, I have a question: I learned from my Aunt Rita that there is no such thing as gravity, and now I see you learned that too. But you don't tell us as well as Aunt Rita what keeps us on Earth, or knocks us out of a tree: GOD pushes us down! Fahma Bill in Michigan PS: Thanks for trying to keep the pseudo-christians honest. PPS: did you see Flying Spaghetti Monster's web site www.venganza.org? Awesome. | |
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On Sep 19, 2005, at 1:58 PM, Dyrons wrote: From a child I have always had this feeling... But to see someone come to the web with some information to back it up. Many thanks.... From the 10th grade until now, I had this feeling....that something was wrong...very WRONG.... The Moon, The Sun, all that so-call matters....I knew something was wrong.... I now wish I had a place to put my children for school.... I feel so sad for them....that they are not learning in school. All these years, and my feelings were right... Do you know of any place where I can have my children learn what REALLY MATTERS.....??? PLEASE HELP ON THIS. Again thanks Dyron S | |
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On Sep 17, 2005, at 3:58 PM, Paul xxxxx wrote: Hi there You people really are nasty! - Such sarcasm - Please keep up the good work Ta Paul | |
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On Aug 29, 2005, at 1:37 PM, Querine de Vos wrote: Wow you guys are completely off the chart. If brains were chocolate you wouldn't have enough to blow your noses!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Long live the Enlightenment!, vive la Voltaire and three cheers for Hume. By the way can you tell God to pushing me down all the time, the gravity of the whole situation is just earth-shattering. Yours Logically; A normal person! | |
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Dear Little Willie; Highest Kudos on your appointment as a Piltdown Fellow! An incredible achievement in all respects! Now to get on to the serious matters before us, that being, the inclusion of an electrical/electronic curriculum within the reDiscovery Institute (praise jesus! Whoo yeah!) I find it despicable indeed that soft vulnerable minds are taught such absurd concepts as electron flow, and its inverse, hole flow! Try as I might, I find it ridiculous in the extreme to expect a hole to flow anywhere! The Designer might make it become shallower, deeper, or he might simply fill it in, but flow??? Hah! and again Hah! As to the inverse, I have yet to see a single electron "flow" anywhere, in fact try as I might, I have yet to actually see an electron with my God Given eyes! If such a thing existed, our Designers would certainly have equipped me to see them! I won't even get into a "particle of photon" More absurdities! Enough! I could go on (and on and on) but it is high time to stamp out these foolish concepts and return the likes of Planck, Feynman, Ohm, Kirchoff and the rest of the rabble to the Designers dust bin from whence they came! Yours in the new Science, Cynthia | |
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Aug 19, 2005, at 9:33 PM, William xxxxx wrote: Truly enjoyed the reDiscovery Institute Web page! I added it to my computational molecular evolution course web page. Bill xxxxx | |
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On Aug 16, 2005, at 11:55 AM, Brian xxxxx wrote: What a wonderful institution of higher learning you have here. I teach Chemistry at a High school in Sonoma County and will use these resources to help my students understand The "Controversy." Great stuff that is appreciated. Brian | |
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On Jul 27, 2005, at 2:13 PM, xxxxx@aol.com wrote: Hello, Any chance your brilliant Creationist Periodic Table is available in poster form? We're just starting a contentious school board race in Minnetonka, Minnesota to prevent more creationists/id supporters from gaining ground. Your table provided some much-needed laughs - I'd like to give it wider circulation. Thanks for your time. Regards, Judy | |
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On Jun 1, 2005, at 4:46 PM, Bob xxxxx wrote: Tell the truth, do you really think that the Grand Canyon could've been formed in all its splendid beauty without the hand of God? Admit it, the soaring cliffs of Yosemite offer mute testimony to His absolute infallibility. And Mount Rainier? Proof that Jesus Christ is the Son of God born of virgin birth. If you deny these facts, you might as well invite Satan into your home to dine at your table and sleep with your house pets. I hope to further research the enlightening information on your site, at a time when I'm not on my boss's dime. Until then... | |
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Hello, the periodic table on the back of issue 29/3 is woefully out-of-date, as it fails to acknowledge the basic relationship between these elements. A more correct version (sorry about the bad ASCII rendering) is as follows: EARTH smog | bricks AIR mud FIRE soda | tequila WATER On a more serious note, element 110 is now Darmstadtium (Ds), 111 is Roentgenium (Rg), and elements 113 to 116 (Uut, Uuq, Uup, Uuh) have been reported, so the count's now at 30 elements and a few more changes. -- Matthias xxxxx | |
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On May 26, 2005, at 3:00 PM, Tim xxxxx wrote: My Question is whether the Discovery crew there really believe this stuff or are they just making fun of the Intelligent Design folks. If God is the intelligent designer why does he let Satan into the world to screw up his design? If I were all powerful, all mighty, all knowing, all everything, I certainly would not let a criminal into my domain to damage my perfectly designed creation. Tim xxxxx, Ph.D. | |
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On May 25, 2005, at 10:56 AM, Alison xxxxx wrote: I congratulate you with publicizing the chemistry controversy and hope that you will proceed on to math. How does anyone know that calculus stuff is right? What exactly is meant by taking the limit to infinity? Clearly G*d is the true infinity. Taking matters to the limit is a sign of secular humanist tendencies anyway. And how about those "imaginary numbers"? -- Alison xxxxx | |
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On May 24, 2005, at 6:52 PM, Margaret wrote: Dear Dr. Richards: It was difficult to choose a Fellow of the re-Discovery Institute to address my comment to. I chose you because, on one hand, you and I share a regional connection (I live in Cincinnati). On the other hand, your advanced age (the Seminary closed in 1853, the Technological Institute soon after) raises certain questions regarding your certainly deteriorating intellectual abilities. However... I wonder if you gentlemen are familiar with the fine directors of the Landover Baptist community. http://www.landoverbaptist.org/ They certainly (in my opinion) deserve a mention among the Friends of the re-DI. Their newsletter, updated monthly, seems to reflect the social interests and concerns of your target audience. Perhaps a partnership of some sort between their faith-based and your deductive works...? Margaret | |
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On May 24, 2005, at 4:12 PM, Ted xxxxx wrote: As a (long time) CSICOP member and (long ago) chemistry student, I thought your markup of the chemical theory of periodicity was absolutely fabulous. Thank you for brightening my day. I've been told that to get a poster of your piece I would need to harangue you to allow the work to be produced as a poster. Please consider this to be congratulations on fine work and encouragement to continue the same, and a hope that one day I can give my daughter (freshman chemistry student at UNC Chapel Hill) one of those posters. - Ted xxxxx Durham, NC 27713 | |
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On May 20, 2005, at 3:24 PM, Frank xxxxx wrote: I believe we should allow an Intelligent Physicist to tell the particles which way to spin, thereby getting rid of the silly theory of quantum entanglement, not to mention the Uncertainty principle and that darn cat. Frank xxxxx Ph.D. Professor Department of Biochemistry University of xxxxx | |
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On May 19, 2005, at 3:27 PM, Tom xxxxx wrote: This web site is an attempt by physical sciences to get publicity now enjoyed by geologists. You too want to be rock stars. More later. Perhaps I can get my wife to write a vaccine column for this. Tom | |
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On May 18, 2005, at 11:54 AM, Jonah xxxxx wrote: That is the greatest thing I have seen in a long time. Thank you. America looks to be screwed (hey, maybe the rediscovery Institute can appoint a special Trofim Lysenko fellowship?) but thanks for the gallows humor. Keep up the good work, Jonah xxxxx Science Center of Connecticut | |
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On May 18, 2005, at 9:09 AM, Thomas xxxxx wrote: How can you have a web site when computers didn't exist in the Dark Ages? Wake up and smell the century you are living in! | |
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On May 15, 2005, at 7:19 PM, Eric xxxxx wrote: I happened across your website today, and I was curious...is this site intended seriously, or as a parody? | |
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On May 11, 2005, at 1:43 PM, Michael xxxxx wrote: You got me. I bought the story planted in Smirking Chimp hook, line and sinker. Then I found my way to your site. Wonderful. Humorous. On-Target. Too bad we need to satirize the efforts to incorporate intelligent design into school curricula. Thanks. Keep up the good work. | |
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I just saw your March 6 spoof at http://www.re-discovery.org/debate.html. Looks like you beat my "Intelligent Astronomy" article at http://www.faux-news.com/stories/2005/03/21/ by a few weeks. You might enjoy it as much as I enjoyed Intelligent Chemistry. | |
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On May 7, 2005, at 12:34 AM, xxxxx wrote: I linked to your site via an article in the Smirking Chimp. You had me going for a bit. | |
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On May 6, 2005, at 1:34 PM, Jeffery xxxxx wrote: Howdy, So, you feel that there is a 0% chance that the universe as we know is the product of random processes yet believe that there is a 100% chance that a omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent being always existed and created all matter and energy out of nothing. This is as goofy as ye olde tyme view that the universe was the earth contained within a sphere on which the inner surface had the stars and sun. The problem is that the question is then raised as to what is on the other side of the inside of the containing sphere? Is it solid? Is the nothing? In either case how far does the solid or nothing go? If the solid or nothing ends, what is there? Your first task, if you want to promote the "creator" thing is to prove the creator. Without that, your argument is nonsense. Sincerely, Jeff xxxxx | |
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On May 6, 2005, at 10:31 AM, Gerard xxxxx wrote: Thank you for finally telling the truth about Chemical Design. Sitting here in my chemistry department office, a.k.a. den of Beelzebub, surrounded by Mendeleevists, I've often wondered if I'm alone in the world (and also if I should switch from a deodorant to an antiperspirant). Now I realize there are others like me! I think you should also demand a revision of statistical mechanics. I never quite got it, and so I don't believe a word of it. First they define entropy as reversible heat divided by temperature, and then they try to pretend it's some sort of disorder, and they expect us NOT TO NOTICE! DO THEY THINK WE"RE FOOLS?!?!?! Get US out of IUPAC! Close down the un-American Chemical Society! Gerard xxxxx Professor of Chemistry, University of xxxxx | |
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On May 4, 2005, at 11:45 AM, Ed xxxxx wrote: I enjoyed your site immensely - are there any vacancies for a sub-branch office in Snyder, Texas? They're teaching that undesigned chemistry here, too, y'know. Give 'em hell! Ed xxxxx | |
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On Apr 20, 2005, at 1:30 PM, Mark xxxxx wrote: Thanks for the permission to use your annotated periodic table. I can already envision how I can use it (or at least the ideas behind it) in my General Biology classes. I usually tell the students that the atom is "just a theory," as is gravity, but now I can include the periodicity of the elements (with the additional historical points you've included). Best regards, Mark P.S. I scanned the table that was on the back cover of SI and posted it on my office door. |