Crap. Guess I should watch out for them!

That said, I think most of the comments on that post were telling him how he’d completely stuffed up that time…

And anyway, like you, I am actually a fan of Dilbert, and I generally like Scott Adams’ blog posts, cause they often do make you think. This post, however, did not. Like you, I prefer thought experiments that actually require some thought.

Yep, ol Scott is pretty clueless when it comes to both religion and science. His rather terrible misunderstanding of evolution is claimed to be a “joke”, although this is only brought up after his defenders can’t win against real scientists. The same here. Personally, I think his book “God’s Debris” (available free over the internet as a pdf) was telling – such mind bogglingly stupid arguments and misunderstandings make it a headache to try to read. Of course, Adams says at the beginning that it is a “thought experiment” and that he doesn’t believe everything in it, or anything, or, well, he doesn’t want to say. I always liked thought experiments that went beyond “I saw the flaws in this argument when I was three years old.”

Bah. You know, as PZ Myers learned, if the fanboys catch a whiff of this, you’ll be inundated with trolls defending their genius.

http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/07/pascals-wager.html

Feel free to delete my last post.

He’s made another post on Pascal’s Wager. Whee.