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Denyse O'Leary
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June 15, 2019
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Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Multiverse
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Logic vs. the multiverse: Gunter Bechly offers some insights

Denyse O'Leary
June 15, 2019
Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Multiverse
For example, how can we “partition an infinite multiverse so to arrive at the finite probabilities we observe and require (e.g. for quantum mechanics) because in an infinite multiverse everything that can happen happens an infinite (with the same cardinality) number of times?” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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June 15, 2019
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
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Ten thinkers tell us what post-modernism means

Denyse O'Leary
June 15, 2019
Culture, Intelligent Design, Science

To judge from the flow of verbiage, it spells little good for the sciences. One rather inclines, in part, to Steven Weinberg’s succinct view,given last: Alas, it was too late. I may be just out of the loop, but it seems to me now that for scientists to argue against constructivism is beating a dead donkey. There is widespread skepticism about the judgments of science, on topics like climate change, but it has other sources — as far as I know, there are no social constructivists in the Trump administration. Steven Weinberg, “The Birth, Death, and Rebirth of Postmodernism” at Chronicle of Higher Education Actually, there is good reason for skepticism about the “judgments of science” that doesn’t flow from Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
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June 14, 2019
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Cell biology, Intelligent Design
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Only some cells have “licences” to kill? Let’s look at what that means

Denyse O'Leary
June 14, 2019
Cell biology, Intelligent Design
The crux we now face: If there is so much intelligent organization in nature that a body resembles a state with a complex government, if there is no design, consciousness itself must also be an evolved illusion., That is a view that many quietly hold. But then science has no defence against the raging Woke, demanding that their grievances be science. There is no way to escape the dilemma: design or chaos Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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June 14, 2019
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Genetics, Intelligent Design
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Researchers: Gene translation “much more complex than previously thought”

Denyse O'Leary
June 14, 2019
Genetics, Intelligent Design
We keep learning about a variety of life forms that they are “more complex than expected.” So why do we keep expecting them to be simpler? How be we turn it around and say: Such-and-so features layers on layers of complexity, as we expected. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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June 13, 2019
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Cell biology
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How a cell protects itself

Denyse O'Leary
June 13, 2019
Cell biology
It sounds like a scheme. But the big question isn’t how cells protect themselves by very complex mechanisms but why? Boulders don’t seek to avoid becoming sand. Something is different about life that mechanical explanations do not address. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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June 12, 2019
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ID Foundations, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, science education
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PLOS editor reflects on teaching evolutionary biology “sensitively”?

Denyse O'Leary
June 12, 2019
ID Foundations, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, science education
What Klymkowsky takes to be demonstrable fact is mostly a series of naturalist statements of belief in the first paragraph and flatly contradicted by mathematical facts in the second. No wonder people don't want this stuff in the schools. Read More ›