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Denyse O'Leary
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April 4, 2019
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Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
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Forbes’ cosmology commentator: Maybe we ARE alone

Denyse O'Leary
April 4, 2019
Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
He goes through the usual potted history of life on Earth, omitting (they always do) to notice that the human mind is a quite different sort of development than, say, sexual reproduction or flight. It's the mind that prompts us to even ask questions about ET, yet no one has any idea what consciousness even is. Read More ›
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April 4, 2019
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Chemistry, Logic and Reason, Mathematics
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Burning a brick in Fluorine — physical/chemical properties in action

kairosfocus
April 4, 2019
Chemistry, Logic and Reason, Mathematics

In the demonstration below, a bit of acetone has been put on the corner of the brick to get the process started: This demonstrates the remarkable effects of inherent, embedded, intelligible structural, quantitative properties of fluorine and other elements and molecules. With lesser materials, we can see similar, even more spectacular effects: Notice, the table of standard electrode potentials of selected ions: A world that exhibits lawlike, reliable properties that are structural and/or quantitative shows how such properties are integrated into the fabric or architecture of being. END

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Denyse O'Leary
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April 3, 2019
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Intelligent Design, Peer review, Psychology
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Does “liberal bias” deepen replication crisis in psychology?

Denyse O'Leary
April 3, 2019
Intelligent Design, Peer review, Psychology
Aw come on, it’s actually not all that complicated when you see it in action. One way you can know that liberal bias deepens the replication crisis is this: Consider the sheer number of ridiculous Sokal hoaxes that have played psychology journals. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 3, 2019
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Intelligent Design, Plants

Plants turn out to have a “nervous system”

Denyse O'Leary
April 3, 2019
Intelligent Design, Plants
According to a piece in ScienceDaily (2006), “In 1998 scientists discovered that fungi split from animals about 1.538 billion years ago, whereas plants split from animals about 1.547 billion years ago..” If animals and plants developed these very detailed information-gathering systems independently (convergent evolution), it seems like the unrolling of a project rather than natural selection acting on random mutation (Darwinism). Darwinism doesn’t think ahead like that. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 2, 2019
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Evolution, Intelligent Design, stasis

Evolution of kneecaps a bit of a mystery

Denyse O'Leary
April 2, 2019
Evolution, Intelligent Design, stasis
He offers a Darwinian explanation that “individuals who just happen to have sesamoid bones at their knees” happened to run better and thus left more offspring. More and more, that sort of explanation begins to sound like what we say when we don’t really have more specific information. Especially now that we are starting to get more specific information. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 2, 2019
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Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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Researchers: Warm weather made cannibals of Neanderthals

Denyse O'Leary
April 2, 2019
Human evolution, Intelligent Design
The researchers see it as a desperate measure. They don’t (and, of course, shouldn’t) rule out ritual cannibalism, which could also be a response to stress (= if we eat this person, we will absorb his ability to spot big game). Slowly the picture comes in and we are still looking for that subhuman Darwin promised us. Read More ›