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Denyse O'Leary
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July 16, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence, Culture, Ecology, Intelligent Design
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AI will save Gaia, says James Lovelock at nearly 100 years of age

Denyse O'Leary
July 16, 2019
Artificial Intelligence, Culture, Ecology, Intelligent Design
The Gaia hypothesis started out as science, then discovered weed. But a digital Gaia movement for the 21st century will not, one suspects, be hippies. Maybe not as nice. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 15, 2019
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Darwinism, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity
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Behe vindicated by goldfish? But of course!

Denyse O'Leary
July 15, 2019
Darwinism, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity
We see devolution all the time with unintelligent causes. Animals gnaw a hole in the bottom of a jug of water and they get some water but the rest is wasted. They destroy the feedhouse door trying to get into the feed because they don’t know how to use the doorhandle. They do get fed but the feed is scattered and much is wasted. *That’s what an unintelligent cause is typically like.* Put another way, the animals won’t learn to use the doorhandle or the jug cap. But just to survive and reproduce, they might not need to. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 15, 2019
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Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Multiverse, Science
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What elements of fine-tuning of our universe (vs. the multiverse) would pass this test of science truth?

Denyse O'Leary
July 15, 2019
Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Multiverse, Science
Ethan Siegel: Even the most successful scientific theories imaginable will, by their very nature, have a limited range of validity. But we can theorize whatever we like, and when a new theory meets the following three criteria... Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 15, 2019
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Intelligent Design, Medicine, Mind, Naturalism, Science
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Study: Psychiatric diagnoses are “scientifically meaningless”

Denyse O'Leary
July 15, 2019
Intelligent Design, Medicine, Mind, Naturalism, Science
People can certainly derive help from their relationship with a psychiatrist but that is an entirely different matter from saying that the science is sound. As science buckles under the strain of trying to be a secular religion, it pays to get things like this straight. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 14, 2019
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Culture, Religion, Science
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Religious Nones drawn to the occult (what did you expect?)

Denyse O'Leary
July 14, 2019
Culture, Religion, Science
This predilection for occultism over philosophically argued religion will of course impact sciences. Indeed, it already does. Look at the number of stories we’ve been running here lately about science journals slowly making social justice warrior concerns equivalent to research. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 14, 2019
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Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism, Neuroscience
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Philosopher: Morality is merely community norms

Denyse O'Leary
July 14, 2019
Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism, Neuroscience
Why is it that the people most likely to be attracted to this sort of naturalism (nature is all there is), often called “materialism,” also appear to be full of rage against what they perceive to be injustice, smashing stuff and people? And none of their theories about how they’ll make anything better sound very convincing. Read More ›