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2019

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 9, 2019
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Culture
Intelligent Design
Science
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Jeffrey Epstein certainly lies in an unquiet grave…

News
November 9, 2019
Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
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The trouble is, as Michael Egnor says, “consensus science” meant not denouncing Epstein. If it now means sanctioning regular witch hunts against anyone who knew the guy, we haven’t made any progress toward rational assessment. Or maybe it’s all just their form of fun. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 9, 2019
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Intelligent Design
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Rob Sheldon defends sociologist Steve Fuller against Nathaniel Comfort

News
November 9, 2019
Intelligent Design
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Sheldon: Post-modernists, which Comfort seems to identify with, have a valid point about scientism's ideological foundation on MN, but rather than rationally correct the error, as Phillip Johnson spent 29 years doing, they treat it as an ethical lapse justifying their own ideological, irrational behavior. Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 9, 2019
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Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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Stephen L. Talbott: “Let’s Not Begin with Natural Selection”

News
November 9, 2019
Darwinism, Intelligent Design
3
Talbott: I can think of no fundamental question about evolution whose answer is suggested by the advertised formula for natural selection. Everything depends on what the amazingly diverse sorts of organism actually do as they respond to and shape their environments. Read More ›
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Date
November 8, 2019
Categories
Defending our Civilization
News Highlights
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US Pres Trump presents a posthumous Presidential Citizens Medal to Col Rick Rescorla

kairosfocus
November 8, 2019
Defending our Civilization, News Highlights
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Video, here: My regret is that it was not a Congressional Medal of Honour with a joint, simultaneous award of a Victoria Cross (he, being “of Cornish crew”). He earned recognition for gallant courage in battle far above and beyond any call of mere duty. END

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 7, 2019
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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Bill Dembski remembers Phil Johnson (1940–2019)

News
November 7, 2019
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
3
Dembski begins by reminding us of the book, Darwin’s Nemesis (2006), which introduced Johnson as “the leading figure” in the intelligent design movement—which he was. Johnson was perhaps the first person after David Berlinski to just ask, point blank, never mind religion or whatever, why does all this tabloid-level nonsense rule biology? Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 6, 2019
Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
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In case you wondered why dark energy is “the biggest unsolved problem in the universe”

News
November 6, 2019
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
2
Ethan Siegel: Why does empty space have the properties that it does? Why is the zero-point energy of the fabric of the Universe a positive, non-zero value? And why does dark energy have the behavior we observe it to have, rather than any other? Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 6, 2019
Categories
Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Origin Of Life

An article at MSN news suggests that Darwin might have been wrong (!)

News
November 6, 2019
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
2
It’s just a conventional story in favor of hydrothermal vents for the origin of life. Some of us can remember back to when most such stories would begin by announcing that they had proven Darwin right. Funny how the rhetoric is changing. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 5, 2019
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
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Rob Sheldon on whether Quanta mag’s universe is closed or flat

News
November 5, 2019
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
4
The result [of overspecialization], as everyone here knows, is that all biologists know that Evolution doesn't work in their specialty, but they believe it works generally for the other specialties. Every astronomer knows about the problems of Lambda-CDM model in their specialty but believes it works in the other specialties. Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 5, 2019
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Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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Remembering the impact of Phillip Johnson’s Darwin on Trial (1991)

News
November 5, 2019
Darwinism, Intelligent Design
3
"Biochemist Michael Behe explains how a biased critique of Darwin on Trial in the journal Science led Behe to join the ID movement." - Casey Luskin And, as a tenured professor, Behe went on to be a thorn in the Darwinians' side insofar as their strategy had, for so long, been to prevent critics from acquiring accepted credentials. Read More ›