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Denyse O'Leary
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October 12, 2019
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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At Nature: An honest attempt to come to terms with Darwinism’s role in eugenics

Denyse O'Leary
October 12, 2019
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
With eugenics, as with racism, all critics want is an honest acknowledgment of the sources, not butt-covering bafflegab. It doesn’t matter now except for the butt-covering bafflegab. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 11, 2019
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Darwinism, Design inference, Information, Intelligent Design
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Do Jeffrey Shallit’s writings offer more information than a blank page?

Denyse O'Leary
October 11, 2019
Darwinism, Design inference, Information, Intelligent Design
Michael Egnor wonders whether that’s true. But he faces the difficulty of convincing anti-ID mathematician Jeffrey Shallit, that HE, at least, ought to think they do. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 11, 2019
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Media, Science
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How “single-study stories” build up science’s Neverland

Denyse O'Leary
October 11, 2019
Culture, Intelligent Design, Media, Science
A longstanding problem is that science writers tend to act as cheerleaders instead of constructive critics. Most of the probing questions that could have been asked about many hyped claims do not require advanced degrees, just a tendency to compare different teams’ findings and ask the tough questions. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 11, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
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Does the Turing test help establish ID theory’s legitimacy?

Denyse O'Leary
October 11, 2019
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
The Turing test for design in computers relies on the same principles as the detection of design in nature. The materialist can have, in principle, no intelligence in either computers or nature or possible intelligence in both. But he can’t pick and choose. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 10, 2019
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Epigenetics, Intelligent Design
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Genetic Literacy Project: Most epigenetic changes not passed on to offspring

Denyse O'Leary
October 10, 2019
Epigenetics, Intelligent Design
Epigenetics is harder to study in humans because human development takes a long time and researchers are not allowed to do the things to humans that they can do to animals. The amount of information about epigenetic changes inherited by humans is likely to grow over time though. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 10, 2019
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Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
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Are some galaxies more hospitable to life than others?

Denyse O'Leary
October 10, 2019
Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
When the researchers tested the thesis by studying 100,000 simulated galaxies, they found that small or dwarf galaxies with comparatively abundant heavy elements offered the best chance. Some of us would settle for a single fossil bacterium on Mars and forget all the theories. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 9, 2019
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Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics
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Researchers: Big data shows math laws that underlie life’s unity

Denyse O'Leary
October 9, 2019
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics
From the release: “The work, led by Ian Hatton at ICTA-UAB in Barcelona, shows how metabolism, abundance, growth and mortality all follow strikingly consistent relationships with body size from the tiniest bacteria to the blue whale.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 8, 2019
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Darwinism, horizontal gene transfer, Intelligent Design, science education
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Horizontal gene transfer: Cholera bacterium steals 150 genes at once

Denyse O'Leary
October 8, 2019
Darwinism, horizontal gene transfer, Intelligent Design, science education
Relevant in more ways than one. Remember that recent Atlantic article where the writer was grousing that her school didn’t teach “evolution” (Darwinism)? And a Darwin lobbyist told her that as a result we wouldn't understand superbugs? Darwinism is probably in the way, actually. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 8, 2019
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Big Bang, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Sabine Hossenfelder on the future of particle physics

Denyse O'Leary
October 8, 2019
Big Bang, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
Hossenfelder: The standard model works just fine with that number and it fits the data. But a small number like this, without explanation, is ugly and particle physicists didn’t want to believe nature could be that ugly. Read More ›