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Denyse O'Leary
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September 18, 2020
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Rob Sheldon on the latest effort to pretend that nothing is wrong in cosmology

Denyse O'Leary
September 18, 2020
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
Sheldon: This dashes yet another attempt to find something that the standard model could not explain. Surprisingly, this is what depresses particle theorists, who have yet to find anything new in the last 40 years, despite thousands of publications. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 18, 2020
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
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The irony! Scientific American is holding forth on an algorithm that might solve “political paralysis”

Denyse O'Leary
September 18, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
Why should we now believe that SciAm’s account of Brett Hennig’s “alternative democracy” ideas is presented to us for any reason other than to sell SciAm’s chosen political candidate for US prez? The thing about sudden partisanship is that you can buy it but you can’t sell it. It’s almost like the folk at Scientific American don’t really get that. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 17, 2020
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Convergent evolution, Intelligent Design
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What next? A tree that stings? Yes.

Denyse O'Leary
September 17, 2020
Convergent evolution, Intelligent Design
Most interesting: “Our results provide an intriguing example of inter-kingdom convergent evolution of animal and plant venoms with shared modes of delivery, molecular structure, and pharmacology.” Plants and animals are not so different after all. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 17, 2020
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Science Magazine gets pitched headlong into the political mud wrestle, along with Scientific American

Denyse O'Leary
September 17, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
Okay, the editor said it: “there is no apolitical science.” We are not now dealing in the world of accusations but of admissions. He is admitting that opposition to “creationism,” however they define it is political. Fine. We all knew that but we did not have it in writing before. Getting things put in writing is a genuine help. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 16, 2020
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
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Rob Sheldon on Scientific American’s foray into politics, backing Joe Biden

Denyse O'Leary
September 16, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
I was a devoted SciAm fan growing up. I collected other people's old copies and had a collection going back to the 60's. Then SciAm was bought out by some big publishing firm. And my favorite column, the Amateur Scientist by Forrest M. Mims III , was cancelled because Mims was a Christian. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 15, 2020
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Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
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Exoplanets made of diamonds?

Denyse O'Leary
September 15, 2020
Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
Researchers: Exoplanets around stars with a higher carbon to oxygen ratio than our sun are more likely to be carbon-rich. They hypothesize that these carbon-rich exoplanets could convert to diamond and silicate, if water (which is abundant in the universe) were present, creating a diamond-rich composition. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 15, 2020
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
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Scientific American breaks with 175-year tradition, endorses Joe Biden for US President

Denyse O'Leary
September 15, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
They can break with tradition in this way if they want, of course. But then they will no longer be able to say that their science is not tainted with (drenched in?) politics. Which is why, no matter what the crisis, no one did it in the past. The outcome, no matter who wins the U.S. election, will be reduced public trust in science. Scientific American could well find itself down there with “media” generally, in terms of public trust. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 14, 2020
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Philosophy, Science
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Will respect for science survive the polarization of our era?

Denyse O'Leary
September 14, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Philosophy, Science
Alternatively, it may become possible to have a discussion about what, exactly, science is. For example, in the case of the ATP turbine, “Natural selection did it” has the same explicit explanatory value as “God did it.” But natural selection is somehow science and God is not. Why? How? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 14, 2020
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Cell biology, Intelligent Design
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Complete structure of the world’s smallest turbine, ATP, now described

Denyse O'Leary
September 14, 2020
Cell biology, Intelligent Design
Ask a Darwinist and he’ll tell you that “natural selection, acting on random mutation” caused all that to just swish into existence. As if. If it took so much intelligence to understand the intricacy of the system, it should be no surprise if it took some intelligence to create it. Read More ›