![]() ![]() Meanwhile: The very fact that doubts about crackpot cosmology would get Woit pegged as a creationist should tell him and his sympathizers far more than it probably does about the risks of opposing evidence-free theories in science today. In five years, shut up or else will be the new creationist. In Max Tegmark’s multiverse, creationist is the new skeptic.ĭavid Berlinski, who obviously isn’t a creationist (if the term has any formal meaning), is routinely derided as a creationist. And we know creationists the way a sommelier knows wines. I am not now and never have been a creationist. Given this, I guess I need to formally make the statement that Also, the fact that I have fans at a certain Intelligent Design blog shows that I’m “against the spirit of science”. ![]() Max Tegmark seems to have decided that my criticism here of the emptiness of ideas in his recent book is “similar to hate-mail I’ve been receiving from a Young-Earth Creationist”. This statement, published today at Columbia math prof Peter Woit ’s Not Even Wrong, seems to follow from our linking to his view of Tegmark’s multiverses, “Mathematician wonders about the respectful reception new multiverse book is getting”:
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