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Denyse O'Leary
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June 17, 2020
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Michael Behe on how the new Lenski paper demonstrates a key problem with Darwinism

Denyse O'Leary
June 17, 2020
Darwinism, Intelligent Design
Behe: Let me emphasize: the only result from the decades-long, 50,000-plus generation E. coli evolution experiment that even seemed at first blush like it had a bit of potential to yield a novel pathway in the bacterium has resulted instead in spectacular devolution. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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June 15, 2020
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Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, Religion
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New “Astrobiological Copernican Limit” claims 36 intelligent civilizations

Denyse O'Leary
June 15, 2020
Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, Religion
It’s all malarkey. In the real world, it would be awfully nice to find fossil bacteria on Mars. When that seems to be taking some time, we hear about 36 alien civs. That’s because there’ll always be a market for We Are Not Alone. The thing is, it used to be called religion, not science. And it still IS religion, not science. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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June 15, 2020
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Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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Is NOTHING sacred? Silicon-based life “may not be likely”?

Denyse O'Leary
June 15, 2020
Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
At Air & Space: "There aren’t many organic silicon compounds to begin with, and silicon-based life in water, or on an oxygen-rich planet, would be all but impossible as any free silicon would react quickly and furiously to form silicate rock. And that’s pretty much the end of the story." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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June 14, 2020
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Darwinian wonders: Will Darwin survive the purge?

Denyse O'Leary
June 14, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Racism
Carl admits that “Up until now, Darwin has been considered something of a hero on the political left... In short, all that dynamite (Darwin’s racism) was lying around, just waiting for someone to find it and make an issue of it—but the Darwinians didn’t want to deal with it themselves in case doing so complicated their culture war? Oh my. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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June 14, 2020
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What is it about the Big Bang these days that is making people nervous?

Denyse O'Leary
June 14, 2020
Big Bang, Cosmology, Intelligent Design
Sheldon: More and more independent measurements of the Hubble constant (H0), reveal that it is very close to 73.9 km/s/Mpc, which is 6 or so sigma (deviations) from the Planck determination of 67.4 km/s/Mpc using the cosmic ray background radiation (CMBR) and the standard Big Bang (BB) Model. Read More ›
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June 14, 2020
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On being a good man in a storm . . .

kairosfocus
June 14, 2020
Intelligent Design

Ac 27 records Paul’s journey to Rome as an appeals prisoner, including a shipwreck. After adverse winds had led them to Fair Havens, Crete, a ship’s council decided to sail on despite danger to reach a better port 40 miles down the coast, despite the hazard and counsels of caution by the Apostle in chains. A seemingly desirable South wind came up, giving them a reach wind to sail the 40 miles. But then an early Nor’easter struck. By v 20, they had been kept in its grips and were reduced to emergency measures: Ac 27:20 When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope of our being saved was at last Read More ›