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Denyse O'Leary
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December 2, 2019
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Cell biology, Intelligent Design
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“Paraspeckles” are another complex system recently discovered in the cell, responding to stress

Denyse O'Leary
December 2, 2019
Cell biology, Intelligent Design
Of course, paraspeckles just happened randomly (“There seems to be no more design in the variability of organic beings, and in the action of natural selection, than in the course which the wind blows.” Darwin, "Life and Letters," i, p. 278). Even though they somehow work seamlessly with everything else. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 2, 2019
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Early fossils may just be “chemical gardens”

Denyse O'Leary
December 2, 2019
Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
Researcher: Findings suggest that structure alone is not sufficient to confirm whether or not microscopic life-like formations are fossils. More research will be needed to say exactly how they were formed… Read More ›
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December 2, 2019
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VIDEO: Digital unwrapping and reading of the En Gedi OT scroll

kairosfocus
December 2, 2019
Artificial Intelligence, Defending our Civilization, Sci-Tech watch, Video

News has posted on this recent technological development. It is worth taking a couple of minutes to watch the video describing and imaging what was done using AI technologies: Fascinating, what 3-d scanning can do. It also of course corroborates the known result from the main Dead Sea Scroll finds, that the OT text was faithfully transmitted to posterity from remote times. END PS: Chain of custody for the NT message and by extension its texts: PPS: HT NewScientist, a case of Lead-based ink pigment detected in a papyrus manuscript written in Greek uncials:

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Denyse O'Leary
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December 1, 2019
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Big Bang, Intelligent Design
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Rob Sheldon on a claim that the Big Bang did not happen

Denyse O'Leary
December 1, 2019
Big Bang, Intelligent Design
We need to go back to Philip Johnson's insight 30 years ago. At that time the creationists were all attacking each other over local/global flood, the meaning of "yom", the historicity of Adam, etc, whereas the Darwinists had a united front--Darwin was a genius. What Johnson discovered, was that the Darwinists had a huge internal battle over nearly every assumption of their model, but politically were unified in their opposition to Creation. By putting his finger on their critical assumption of Methodological Naturalism, which was contrary to nature and to nature's laws, Johnson was able to unite the creationists behind this cause and turn the tables. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 1, 2019
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Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
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Science, miracles, and Benny Hinn

Denyse O'Leary
December 1, 2019
Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
Bill Dembski's 2nd chapter of a book on miracles is now on line. One wonders whether scam vs. no-scam is even the right question in many cases. Perhaps what we should be asking is, how much of what is happening can be accounted for by the well-documented—and quite real— placebo effect? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 1, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind, Religion
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Biblical archeology gets a boost from AI

Denyse O'Leary
December 1, 2019
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind, Religion
As with the Dead Sea Scrolls, when they did decipher it, using AI, they found it was the same Scriptural texts as elsewhere. Which reinforces the fact that ancient peoples were not in the habit of simply rewriting the Scriptures now and then according to taste. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 1, 2019
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Near-death experiences challenge human senses

Denyse O'Leary
December 1, 2019
Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
One interesting aspect of near-death experiences is that survivors’ accounts speak of sensing things they had not sensed before. What they sense is non inconsistent with science but it is typically unknown to most people. Read More ›