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Denyse O'Leary
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August 19, 2020
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
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CS Lewis, COVID-19, and scientism

Denyse O'Leary
August 19, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
"Seventy-five years ago, C.S. Lewis published his novel ”That Hideous Strength,” which explored the dangers of government in the name of science. What relevance does Lewis's advice on the promise and perils of science-based public policy have in the age of COVID-19 and beyond? " Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 19, 2020
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Naturalism
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Arithmetic as racism: A teacher’s reflections on the progressive war on math

Denyse O'Leary
August 19, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Naturalism
Mahlberg: English philosopher G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) saw the early signs of the West’s abandonment of objective truth, and in a cheeky tone, he warned: We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 19, 2020
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Astronomy, Cosmology, Intelligent Design
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Claim: Solar system might once have had two companion stars

Denyse O'Leary
August 19, 2020
Astronomy, Cosmology, Intelligent Design
But wait! Who’s claiming this? The second author of this paper is Abraham (Avi) Loeb. That rings a bell. Wasn’t he the one who suggested that the obvious space junk Oumuamua was an extraterrestrial light sail? Look, why does the name “Harvard” put all doubts about credibility to rest? Especially in these times? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 19, 2020
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Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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What? Cosmologist Sean Carroll doesn’t freak out when Darwin is doubted?

Denyse O'Leary
August 19, 2020
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
Interesting podcast in which astrophysicist Bartlett is permitted to question dogmas. The dogma about the One Single Common Ancestor that kicked off Darwinian evolution is the product of a prior belief in life’s sheer Flukiness. If you do not believe that life is a fluke, whatever else you believe, you can discard that One Single Cell doctrine as nonessential and problematic. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 18, 2020
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Information, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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Steve Meyer on James Tour’s podcast

Denyse O'Leary
August 18, 2020
Information, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
"In this interview, Dr. James Tour and Dr. Stephen Meyer discuss science and faith, while getting into the details on the discovery of complex, sequence specific information required for life's function and origin, and the required fine-tuned laboratory that we call our universe that must exist in order for assembly to occur." People are taking reality seriously? What next, we wonder? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 17, 2020
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Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, stasis
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A University of Arizona prof works hard to make Darwinism coincide with the history of life

Denyse O'Leary
August 17, 2020
Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, stasis
She does a good job of pointing out how much of the history of life is really stasis. But then what about Darwin's claim about nature daily, hourly adding stuff up, subtracting the bad, retaining the good... Apparently not. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 17, 2020
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Is information really the fifth state of matter? Rob Sheldon responds

Denyse O'Leary
August 17, 2020
Information, Intelligent Design
Sheldon: Throughout history we have examples of these bad physics generalizations. For example, heat was once considered a fluid embedded in the oak log, absorbed from the sun, called phlogiston. As it turned out, heat is not a material substance. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 16, 2020
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Intelligent Design, Naturalism
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Lawrence Krauss and Richard Dawkins on free will

Denyse O'Leary
August 16, 2020
Intelligent Design, Naturalism
They think it’s an illusion, of course. Dawkins recommends Richard Dennett on the subject but Dennett also thinks that consciousness is an illusion. Michael Egnor would say, if your proposition is that consciousness is an illusion, then you don’t have a proposition. Read More ›
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August 16, 2020
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Academic Freedom, Cell biology, Medicine, rhetoric
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The Frontline Doctors put some “plausible” mechanisms for Hydroxychloroquine on the table

kairosfocus
August 16, 2020
Academic Freedom, Cell biology, Medicine, rhetoric

In their July 28 seminar, the Frontline Doctors Group led by Dr Simone Gold, have put some plausible mechanisms for HCQ based cocktails on the table. These were noted on in an augmentation to an earlier post, but deserve headlining in their own right: Dr Frieden OP: >>I have found at Bit Chute, a July 28 Frontline Doctors seminar which describes several mechanisms of action. Accordingly, I take liberty to annotate a screenshot, summarising several mechanisms of action described by these Doctors [cf. here for their references], but which are hard to find because of now almost pervasive censorship: I add, that the above suggests a fairly similar viral attack process to the West Nile Virus (which is also an Read More ›