Playing Chess with Pigeons is the weblog of Troy Britain.
The title comes from a very amusing description of what it is like to debate creationists about evolution by Scott D. Weitzenhoffer*, given in a comment on Amazon.com regarding Eugenie Scotts’ book Evolution Vs. Creationism: An introduction (2004):
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Debating creationists on the topic of evolution is rather like trying to play chess with a pigeon — it knocks the pieces over, craps on the board, and flies back to its flock to claim victory.
The pro-creationist reviewers of this book clearly demonstrate this to be true.
Man, have I been there. It’s not just that creationists are often completely ignorant of evolutionary theory, the state of the evidence, and the history of science. There have also been numerous times where I have been debating an creationist or responding to their claims that I would have to take time to explain their own arguments to them.
“No, you meant to say “Piltdown Man” was based on a human skull and an orangutan jaw, not on a pig’s tooth. That was “Nebraska Man” and it was actually based on a peccary tooth.”
Is it so much to ask for that if you’re going to try and use Piltdown Man against us that you at least know what the hell it was, and that you get your own arguments against it straight?
Add to this their constantly moving goal-posts, their tendency towards a scatter-shot mode of argument (keep throwing stuff against the wall and hope that something sticks), their constant digressions to irrelevancies, non sequiturs and other logical fallacies, and it gets pretty breathtaking.
If there is a particular point that I wish to drive home again and again on this blog, it is that professional creationists—those who populated the various institutes and ministries and who make their livings promulgating antievolution, anti-science, rhetoric—regularly misrepresent the empirical evidence, the nature of science and the work and words of scientists, in such a manner and to such an extent, that it can only be attributed to grossly incompetent scholarship, rank intellectual dishonest or serious delusion. Or perhaps some combination of these.
My hope being that—in addition to supplying further ammunition to my fellow defenders of science and science education—I might convince intellectually honest, thoughtful, religious antievolutionists out there to question the advisability of attempting to shore up their faith with the “goods” these people are selling them.
[You can buy a “playing chess with pigeons” quote T-shirt at Evo-T’s.]
*Mr. Weitzenhoffer has since taken to espousing what I consider to be some rather extreme rhetoric on social media with regards to those with whom he has political disagreement, for that reason I feel compelled to state that my use of his quote does not represent any necessary agreement with him on anything beyond his joke about creationists made in his comment on Amazon.com.
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How to play chess
A quick Chess introduction for beginners
Chess board position
Chess is played by two players sitting across from each other. The board is positioned with a white square in the bottom-right corner towards you.
Chess setup
How to delete game pigeon ios 13. Your second row is filled with pawns. Starting from the left corner, your first row is set up as rook-knight-bishop-queen-king-bishop-knight-rook. The black pieces should mirror the white pieces so that each player’s Queen and King are across from each other.
Moving the Chess pieces
The object of the game is to capture your opponent’s king. This is done through the movement of your pieces. Different pieces move in different ways:
The King can move one square in any direction.
The Queen can move any direction and any number of squares.
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The Knights move in an L-shape, two squares up back or side to side then one square perpendicular to the first move or vice versa, moving one square then two squares. The knight is the only piece that can move over other pieces.
The rooks can move forwards backwards and side-to-side any number of squares.
The pawns can move one square forward, except for a pawns first move which can be one or two squares forward.
Chess rules
When a piece makes a move that ends on an opponent’s piece that piece is captured and removed from the board.
The pawns cannot capture a piece that is right in front of it. The can only capture a piece that is diagonally in front of them. This diagonal move by a pawn can only be made when capturing a piece.
The game begins with the white player going first. Each player can make one move per turn. Players take turns making moves with the goal of capturing the opposing King in mind.
When a move is made that can result in the opposing King being captured on the next move, “check” is announced. When check is announced, the opposing player must take the King out of danger by either moving the King or moving another piece to block it or capture the piece that is threatening the King.
When a move is made that a king cannot escape “checkmate” is announced. A king cannot make a move that would put itself into check. If no moves can be made without putting a king in check, the game is a draw.
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If a pawn makes it all the way across the board it can be promoted to any piece.
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When there are no other pieces between a king and his rook, the King can move two squares towards the rook and the rook is moved to the other side of the King. This is known as castling. The castling move can only be made if it is the King’s first move and the involved rooks first move also. The King cannot be in check or move through check to make this move.
When a pawn moves two squares on its first move an opposing pawn can capture it if it would have been able to capture the pawn had it only moved one square. The opposing piece would move as a normal attack and remove the pawn. This move has to be executed immediately after a pawns double jump move
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