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Denyse O'Leary
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August 22, 2019
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Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Straw in the wind? Darwin’s random variation is discredited in a recent paper

Denyse O'Leary
August 22, 2019
Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
They propose “nonrandom variation”. Later: “Darwin's idea that variation is generated randomly has largely been taken for granted rather than tested, representing a fundamental gap in our understanding of evolution.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 22, 2019
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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And so now psychoanalyst Carl Jung was a racist too…

Denyse O'Leary
August 22, 2019
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
Darwinians have gone to such lengths to defend Darwin when, it is becoming clear, everybody who lived before Political Correctness was a racist. One interesting thing about the linked story about Jung (1875-1961) is the pushback it is getting from the combox. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 21, 2019
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Intelligent Design, Media, Philosophy, Science
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“Skeptical Inquirer” calls National Geographic book a “natural disaster”

Denyse O'Leary
August 21, 2019
Intelligent Design, Media, Philosophy, Science
The main thing to see here is that the book is published by National Geographic, once a source you would not have expected to be backing this stuff. The real war on science is not doubts about Darwin. To the extent that so many people have allowed Darwinists to snooker them into believing that, they likely don’t know what to do now that seriously fact-challenged points of view can parade as virtue. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 20, 2019
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Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
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Jeffrey Shallit also holds forth on Yale’s David Gelernter

Denyse O'Leary
August 20, 2019
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
Shallit: "Gelernter is not a biologist and (to the best of my knowledge) has no advanced formal training in biology." We weren;t aware, at UD, that math prof Shallit had serious biology credentials either but perhaps one can dispense with them if one supports Darwinism. Read More ›
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August 20, 2019
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Climate change, Global Warming

Ocean Methane Production is Ubiquitous

August 20, 2019
Climate change, Global Warming

From a PNAS article: The conditions of methane (CH4) formation in olivine-hosted secondary fluid inclusions and their prevalence in peridotite and gabbroic rocks from a wide range of geological settings were assessed using confocal Raman spectroscopy, optical and scanning electron microscopy, electron microprobe analysis, and thermodynamic modeling. Detailed examination of 160 samples from ultraslow- to fast-spreading midocean ridges, subduction zones, and ophiolites revealed that hydrogen (H2) and CH4 formation linked to serpentinization within olivine-hosted secondary fluid inclusions is a widespread process. And this from a paper in Nature: Methane (CH4) is an important greenhouse gas because it has 25 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide (CO2) by mass over a century. Recent calculations suggest that atmospheric CH4 emissions Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
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August 20, 2019
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Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
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Rob Sheldon: Don’t give up all ET hope due to recent exoplanet disappointment

Denyse O'Leary
August 20, 2019
Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
Sheldon: … in our own solar system, Saturn is far outside the "Goldilocks Zone" yet it has a moon, Enceladus, that is emitting steam jets filled with hydrocarbons. … The danger of being overly-quantitative is not just the overreliance on models, or the higher risk of failure, but rather the real probability that "certainty" blinds one from observing the actual phenomenon. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 20, 2019
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Intelligent Design, Mathematics
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Darwinist Jeffrey Shallit asks, why can’t creationists do math?

Denyse O'Leary
August 20, 2019
Intelligent Design, Mathematics
Referring to calculus textbook author Jonathan Bartlett, he writes, “What surprises me is that even creationists with math or related degrees often have problems with basic mathematics.” Bartlett will answer shortly. Read More ›