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2019

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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 5, 2019
Categories
Artificial Intelligence
Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Science
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Astronomer Martin Rees on why science is approaching its limits

News
August 5, 2019
Artificial Intelligence, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Science
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And how it can transcend them via “intelligent design.” Be warned. In the middle of the bridge to the post-human artificial intelligence future sits a fat troll called the Halting Problem, waiting for an unsuspecting computer idealist to wander by… Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 4, 2019
Categories
extinction
Intelligent Design
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Are extinctions evidence of a divine purpose in life?

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August 4, 2019
extinction, Intelligent Design
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Hugh Ross: As with all mass extinction events that have occurred in the history of Earth’s life, the Pliocene-Pleistocene mass extinction event poses a serious challenge to models attempting to explain the history of Earth’s life by strictly natural means. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 4, 2019
Categories
Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design

Gems from headlines 2011-2012 predicting the demise of ID

News
August 4, 2019
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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As it happens, Darwin is in way bigger trouble now. One regularly sees stuff walloping along in the current of science information that isn’t consistent with any plausible interpretation of biology’s Big Theory. Not only does no one do anything about it but the worry that they ever will is beginning to fade. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 3, 2019
Categories
Cell biology
Intelligent Design
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The genes that come to life after you die

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August 3, 2019
Cell biology, Intelligent Design
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The most likely explanation is that death is a process of shutting down, rather than an instant when everything stops. The genes to grow a spinal column, for example, resurfaced but maybe they had been suppressed because the deceased already had one. Still much to learn but that’s a good hypothesis to test. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 2, 2019
Categories
Human evolution
Intelligent Design
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New book from Harvard U Press: Childhood, not evolution makes us human

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August 2, 2019
Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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Two things: If the significant changes happen to humans between birth and seven years of age, it is not q theory of evolution at all, but of intellectual and cultural development. Also, Tomasello seems not be following the party line that apes are just like us but we refuse to recognize the fact. That’s borderline heresy. Read More ›