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Year

2019

Type
post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 25, 2019
Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
stasis
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They didn’t find the parenting switch…

News
July 25, 2019
Evolution, Intelligent Design, stasis
2
They didn’t find anything like a “parenting switch” that applied across frog and mouse species, they noted. But parenting behavior, however caused, may be very much older that we used to think (the rise of amphibians about 360 million years ago?). And yet many later life forms don’t care for their offspring. The more evolution becomes a history, the more it features puzzling complexities that can't be resolved by a fatuous appeal to an "ism". Read More ›
Type
post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 24, 2019
Categories
horizontal gene transfer
Intelligent Design
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Horizontal gene transfer: Parasite plants steal genes from hosts

News
July 24, 2019
horizontal gene transfer, Intelligent Design
3
Indeed, HGT may well be “the tip of the iceberg,” as the researcher says. Consider: Darwinism is about ancestor-descendant relationships. Take that away and the whole elaborate catechism of altruism, kin selection, costly fitness, etc. is poof! And horizontal gene transfer does indeed take that away. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 24, 2019
Categories
Intelligent Design
Peer review
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Retraction Watch wonders: How did THIS nonsense end up in a peer-reviewed journal?

News
July 24, 2019
Intelligent Design, Peer review
3
Another question: Why are so many studies done about why laypeople don’t trust science and comparatively few done on what’s the matter with people who DO “trust science” in an atmosphere where this stuff seems to flourish unchecked? Read More ›
Type
post
Date
July 23, 2019
Categories
Amorality
Atheism
Defending our Civilization
FYI-FTR
rhetoric
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FYI-FTR: The answer given to attempts to undermine moral government (and to those that — even worse — suggest that Christians must become/are vigilantes)

kairosfocus
July 23, 2019
Amorality, Atheism, Defending our Civilization, FYI-FTR, rhetoric
13

A new accusatory talking point being used by one particular frequent objector, is that I am ducking answering what he imagines I cannot answer. This arose in connexion with his drearily raising yet again an obsessive theme that would drag threads into the sewer. Having taken time to deal with such in one thread, I refused. I took time to deal with the focal topic (currently at top of UD’s recent active threads) then I took time to answer objections as above. For corrective record, I now headline, and as the relevant thread is still open, discussion will be entertained there. First, 419 in the atheism warrant challenge thread, July 17 2019 at 11:54 am on blog timestamp: [KF, 419:] Read More ›

Type
post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 22, 2019
Categories
Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
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Mathematicians challenge Darwinian evolution

News
July 22, 2019
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Mathematics
2
"Has Darwinism really failed? Peter Robinson discusses it with David Berlinski, David Gelernter, and Stephen Meyer, who have raised doubts about Darwin’s theory in their two books and essay, respectively The Deniable Darwin, Darwin’s Doubt, and “Giving Up Darwin” (published in the Claremont Review of Books). " When this stuff is happening, Darwinism is on the outs culturally. Read More ›
Type
post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 22, 2019
Categories
Culture
Intelligent Design
Media
Naturalism
Science
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Why the science spin snowball can’t stop

News
July 22, 2019
Culture, Intelligent Design, Media, Naturalism, Science
2
The bigger problem is overlooked. The basic philosophy of the people doing the science spins the story for them. We live in the age of the space detritus that was supposed to be an extraterrestrial lightsail and the conscious plants. And the talking apes. Oh yes, and the multiverse Read More ›