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Denyse O'Leary
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July 27, 2020
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Sabine Hossenfelder: Einstein’s greatest legacy was the thought experiment

Denyse O'Leary
July 27, 2020
Intelligent Design, Physics
She notes that one needs evidence from real experiments to demonstrate that the outcome of a thought experiment is real. But it is significant that the human mind is capable of developing the basis for momentous discoveries even before we commit to stuff that requires a budget. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 27, 2020
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Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, Media, Science
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Could COVID-19 help us understand the current buzz in science media about space aliens?

Denyse O'Leary
July 27, 2020
Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, Media, Science
It’s worth noting that we haven’t established that there are even fossil bacteria on Mars. But we are starting to hear more than ever that there are intelligent aliens out there, most recently from Ars Technica and Scientific American. Fundamentally, we have found nothing since the Sixties that truly suggests extraterrestrial civilizations. Nothing. If they want to keep looking, fine. Nobody’s stopping them. But spare us the dramatics. Read More ›
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July 27, 2020
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Control vs Anarchy, Defending our Civilization, Geo-strategic issues, rhetoric
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After 100 years and 100 million needless graves, Dinesh D’Souza on the C21 “revival” of “Socialism”

kairosfocus
July 27, 2020
Control vs Anarchy, Defending our Civilization, Geo-strategic issues, rhetoric

Thirty years ago, “Socialism” collapsed in utter disgrace. What lies behind the seeming resurgence in C21? (Apart from Alinsky style “community organisers” beavering away, Frankfurt School “Critical theory” and linked “Deconstructionism,” all tied to the smear that those who seriously challenge Marxist notions and linked policy agendas are crypto-fascists at best?) Here is a Prager U video discussion with Ms Candace Owen: (Here’s hoping it does not get mysteriously deplatformed.) I again point to a framework for understanding political dynamics: . . . thus, a re-thinking on political spectra: With a warning on Red Guards: Let me add (July 31), given the comment by BR on a victim of a Stalinist show trial, a telegram from Albert Einstein on the Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
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July 26, 2020
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Richard Dawkins, as seen apart from proxy Darwin worship

Denyse O'Leary
July 26, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
It also felt like the truest, most human work I could do: to love someone into whomever they would become. Meanwhile, the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins tweeted that it was immoral for a pregnant woman to knowingly carry to term a child with Down syndrome... Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 26, 2020
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Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Multiverse, theism
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Wintery Knight: Does the multiverse counter the fine-tuning argument for God’s existence?

Denyse O'Leary
July 26, 2020
Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Multiverse, theism
Knight: The multiverse is not pure nonsense, it is theoretically possible.But even if there were a multiverse, the generator that makes the universes itself would require fine-tuning, so the multiverse doesn’t get rid of the problem. And, as Lightman indicates, we have no independent experimental evidence for the existence of the multiverse in any case. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 26, 2020
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Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, theism
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Can AI stand in for God? John Lennox comments

Denyse O'Leary
July 26, 2020
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, theism
John Lennox : I spent most of my life contending with people that think that science replaces God. And I see that as a very foolish argument really. It’s like saying that if you understand how a Ford motor car works, you don’t need to believe in Henry Ford. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 25, 2020
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The New York Times runs an “aliens are maybe real” story

Denyse O'Leary
July 25, 2020
Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
There are many total mysteries out there. We need more to go on than mere mystery to take aliens seriously. One remembers the astronomer who convinced himself recently that space detritus Oumuamua was an extraterrestrial light sail and accused the rest of us of being too dumb to see that. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 25, 2020
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Animal minds, Intelligent Design, language
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Asked at Mind Matters News: But, in the end, did the chimpanzee really talk?

Denyse O'Leary
July 25, 2020
Animal minds, Intelligent Design, language
The Smithsonian article tells us a good deal about the motivations of those who, essentially, see bonobos not as apes in need of protection but, to judge from their rhetoric, as something like an oppressed people. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 25, 2020
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Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Medicine
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Is human biology too complicated for humans to understand?

Denyse O'Leary
July 25, 2020
Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Medicine
Craig Mundie’s dream is to build an AI that rivals human intellect to tackle problems in health care. He hopes to be able to customize medicine for every person by building a virtual proxy for every person. It’s almost like he is asking for biology to play tricks on him… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 24, 2020
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Cell biology, Intelligent Design
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Researchers have discovered more about the tiny packages cells use to move molecules around

Denyse O'Leary
July 24, 2020
Cell biology, Intelligent Design
From Florida State: They also showed that the clathrin coat could make a so-called "basket" shape, and one that scientists had thought the protein could not form, showing that clathrin assembly is more complicated than previously thought. ... "We found new structures and patterns that really surprised us." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 24, 2020
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Intelligent Design, Neuroscience
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Researchers: Neurons are programmed for long life, not like other cells

Denyse O'Leary
July 24, 2020
Intelligent Design, Neuroscience
From UCal Riverside: The study, published in the journal Neuron, identifies a mechanism the researchers say is triggered at neuron birth to intrinsically decrease a general form of cell death — or “apoptosis” — specifically in neurons. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 24, 2020
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Multiverse physicist Max Tegmark switches gears; seeks AI to combat “news bias”

Denyse O'Leary
July 24, 2020
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Media, Multiverse
Readers may recall him from the four levels of multiverse he advocated in Scientific American in 2003. But forget that. He now thinks there is too much bias in American media and he is working on an AI program to combat it Read More ›