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Denyse O'Leary
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August 13, 2019
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Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Mind
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Believing elephants into personhood

Denyse O'Leary
August 13, 2019
Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Mind
For decades, researchers were transfixed with the idea of humanizing great apes by raising them among humans and teaching them language. Emerging from the ruins and recriminations of the collapse, philosophy prof Don Ross has a new idea: Let’s start with elephants instead… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 13, 2019
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Cell biology, Intelligent Design, stasis
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Culturing a tentacled archean in a lab shows eukaryote-like genes from 2 billion years ago

Denyse O'Leary
August 13, 2019
Cell biology, Intelligent Design, stasis
Also, here’s a 2017 Abstract from Nature, noting that “Our results expand the known repertoire of ‘eukaryote-specific’ proteins in Archaea, indicating that the archaeal host cell already contained many key components that govern eukaryotic cellular complexity.” Thus they had that complexity back then. Not so good for Darwinism unless Darwinism is magic. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 13, 2019
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Biology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Will quantum biology help solve some of life’s greatest mysteries?

Denyse O'Leary
August 13, 2019
Biology, Intelligent Design, Physics
Quantum mechanics can solve mysteries but only if they are mysteries of certain sort. The temptation is to try to shoehorn a mystery - they mentioned human consciousness - into that mold in order that quantum theory might solve it. But we haven’t yet established the role of quantum processes in much more basic biology so they might want to wait on that fuzzier stuff. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 13, 2019
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Animal minds, Mind, Plants
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Scientists: For the last time, plants are NOT conscious!!

Denyse O'Leary
August 13, 2019
Animal minds, Mind, Plants
We know something’s changed when scientists need to make these points. Maybe underestimating the significance of human intelligence plays a role. After all, if we are just clever apes, maybe lettuce is just-as-clever apes too. Maybe salad is murder... Read More ›
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Barry Arrington
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August 12, 2019
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Intelligent Design

Animal Kingdom, Nietzsche Comes to the Small Screen

Barry Arrington
August 12, 2019
Intelligent Design

[Spoilers below] Animal Kingdom is a TNT television drama based on a 2010 Australian movie of the same name.  The series follows the Codys, an Oceanside, California crime family.  The Codys plan and execute their crimes with meticulous attention to detail, and their crimes pay very well indeed.  The fruits of their criminal labors include homes by the ocean, luxury cars, world travel, lavish parties, and unlimited lines of cocaine.  The family consists of matriarch Janine “Smurf” Cody, her sons Pope, Baz, Daren and Craig and her grandson Josh.  The Codys are beautiful and (except for Pope) charismatic, and the writers use these traits to beguile us into cheering for them as they pull off their latest “Mission Impossible” criminal Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
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August 12, 2019
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Cosmology, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
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Caution! Knowing the universe is a simulation will end it…? Wow, magic.

Denyse O'Leary
August 12, 2019
Cosmology, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
At least the crackpot cosmologist is mostly scaring himself. The rest of us are wondering whether water bears could survive on the moon. That’s all the "space aliens" we can be sure of. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 12, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind
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Artificial vs human intelligence: Sabine Hossenfelder offers us 10 differences

Denyse O'Leary
August 12, 2019
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind
As AI types like to say, the system is so easily fooled because it doesn’t “know” anything. We are slowly learning, in consequence, more about what it means for a human being to “know” something. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 12, 2019
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Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
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“Descartes’ mind-body problem” makes nonsense of materialism

Denyse O'Leary
August 12, 2019
Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
The mind-body “problem” is the nonsense materialists are led into in order to make the obvious meaning of the experience of an immaterial mind disappear in a dense weed jungle of verbiage. Read More ›