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Denyse O'Leary
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January 15, 2020
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Media
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Sabine Hossenfelder makes it to Slashdot

Denyse O'Leary
January 15, 2020
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Media
Hossenfelder: What we have here in the foundation of physics is a plain failure of the scientific method. All these wrong predictions should have taught physicists that just because they can write down equations for something does not mean this math is a scientifically promising hypothesis. Read More ›
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Jonathan Bartlett
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January 12, 2020
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Mind, Naturalism, Popular culture, Society
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Thinking More Deeply About Causation

Jonathan Bartlett
January 12, 2020
Mind, Naturalism, Popular culture, Society
Most people (including experts) tend to have a one-level view of causation. That is, they have a static idea of what the subject matter is, and then they look to see how the pieces bounce around within that static structure. That more or less works for physics. It totally fails everywhere else. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 12, 2020
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Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Science
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Granville Sewell: Darwinism as a form of losing one’s mind

Denyse O'Leary
January 12, 2020
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Science
In an age when objectivity is becoming science’s enemy in the United States and massive corruption is a norm in its former science competitor Russia, scientists can still make a virtue out of being true to Darwin. Wherever that lands them. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 12, 2020
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Intelligent Design, Religion, science education
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Will home-schooled Christian students be the science leaders of tomorrow?

Denyse O'Leary
January 12, 2020
Intelligent Design, Religion, science education
It will be interesting indeed if the legacy of the thought traditions that provided a basis for science in the western world ended up being carried on mainly by devout Christians. While the official science world continues to mires and beclown itself in a war on objectivity. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 12, 2020
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Is Buddhism really the most “science-friendly religion”?

Denyse O'Leary
January 12, 2020
Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Religion, Science
Thompson's point is applicable beyond Buddhism. “Theistic” evolutionists, for example, start with the premise that God wouldn’t “create” anything. That is really a message about God, not about nature, and it is bound to be a church-closer. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 11, 2020
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'Junk DNA', Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Nature Reviews Genetics article admits that junk DNA has been “prematurely dismissed”

Denyse O'Leary
January 11, 2020
'Junk DNA', Darwinism, Intelligent Design
The authors of the paper, of course, avoid pointing out that the presumption of uselessness was anchored in the comfortable fit between useless junk in the genome and the idea of unintelligent evolution. Never mind, Jonathan Wells’ The Myth of Junk DNA seems to be holding up well. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 11, 2020
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Evolution, Intelligent Design
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One genus of fish EATS bioluminescence from prey and displays it

Denyse O'Leary
January 11, 2020
Evolution, Intelligent Design
This is not horizontal gene transfer; the fish are eating and repurposing the enzymes rather than incorporating the genes for producing them. But if the fish can in fact steal the enzymes, that’s something to keep in mind as we hear evolutionary biologists explain to us how this and other traits evolved via natural selection acting on the random mutations of the fish’s genome (Darwinism)… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 11, 2020
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Human evolution, Intelligent Design

A study finds that the human body temperature is changing

Denyse O'Leary
January 11, 2020
Human evolution, Intelligent Design
It was determined to be 98.6 Fahrenheit back in 1851:
Researchers say that the body temperature (Fahrenheit) of men born in the 2000s is on average 1.06 degrees lower than men born in the early 1800s. Similarly, women born in the 2000s have an average body temperature that is 0.58 degrees lower than women born in the 1890s. All in all, these conclusions point to a decrease of 0.05 degrees among the U.S. population each and every decade. John Anderer, "Human Body Temperature In The U.S. Has Decreased Over Time, Study Finds" at StudyFinds
In all 677,423 temperature readings were taken, dating back to the US Civil War era. The open-access paper was published in eLIFE. From the discussion: “Our investigation indicates that humans in high-income countries have changed physiologically over the last 200 birth years with a mean body temperature 1.6% lower than in the pre-industrial era. The role that this physiologic ‘evolution’ plays in human anthropometrics and longevity is unknown.” If “evolution” is going on all the time like that, and probably drifting back and forth, what becomes of the Facts of Evolution that are the Bedrock of Science and the Truths every schoolchild should be taught? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 10, 2020
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Darwinism, Epigenetics, Intelligent Design
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Friends sometimes pester friends for a “solid” definition of epigenetics

Denyse O'Leary
January 10, 2020
Darwinism, Epigenetics, Intelligent Design
To the extent that the Darwin-in-the-schools lobby permits the discussion of epigenetics, we can be reasonably sure they restrict it to the narrower, less threatening sense. And what better stronghold for Darwinism than the public school, which all taxpayers are forced to fund and most parents obliged to send their kids to? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 10, 2020
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Peer review, Science, worldview
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800 Russian journal papers retracted: The most interesting question is undiscussed

Denyse O'Leary
January 10, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Peer review, Science, worldview
To the extent that science is global, tolerated fraud in one milieu taints an entire discipline. Recall the smug people who think that science is an infinitely superior way of knowing, Won't that be an increasingly harder sell as more people become aware of these tip-of-the-iceberg “bombshell” revelations? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 9, 2020
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Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
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A classic reminder from MIT that most important science problems “await solution”

Denyse O'Leary
January 9, 2020
Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
New discoveries don’t just add to old ones; they can greatly change or destroy their significance. That’s exactly what is happening to Darwinism today and we are living in the middle of it. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 9, 2020
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Evolution, Genetics, Genomics, Intelligent Design, stasis
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Ghost worms unchanged in form for 275 million years but show “highly distinct” genetics?

Denyse O'Leary
January 9, 2020
Evolution, Genetics, Genomics, Intelligent Design, stasis
One wants to ask, how distinct ARE the genomes of these species that all look the same? Would it be like mapping a cat’s genome and finding a German Shepherd’s GATTACA in there? What that level of distinction really tells us goes well beyond cats and German Shepherds. Or do the researchers really mean something less highly distinct? What? We search for analogies here. Read More ›