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Denyse O'Leary
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September 6, 2020
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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Britain’s Natural History Museum is feeling the heat over Darwin’s racism

Denyse O'Leary
September 6, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
Some of us remember fifteen years ago when anyone who brought up Darwin’s racism was informed, superciliously, by Darwinists that only a creationist would raise such an issue, as if there were nothing to be appalled by. One is tempted to say, suck it up. But that’s not a solution. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 5, 2020
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Books of interest, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Michael Flannery’s book on Alfred Russel Wallace has been revised and updated

Denyse O'Leary
September 5, 2020
Books of interest, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
Wallace, as Darwin’s co-theorist, disappeared because he was not useful to the cause of naturalism. We’ll try to help make sure he doesn’t disappear again. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 4, 2020
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Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
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Physicists: Life forms could flourish in the interior of stars

Denyse O'Leary
September 4, 2020
Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
This would seem to be string theory’s contribution to biology: At a time when we haven’t yet located fossil bacteria on Mars (of which there is at least a plausible hope), we are asked to accept that there might be formations within stars that we would not identify as life but really are. String theory is then about as fruitful in biology as it is in cosmology. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 4, 2020
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Biomimicry, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Insects were mimicking lichens 165 million years ago

Denyse O'Leary
September 4, 2020
Biomimicry, Evolution, Intelligent Design
Whoever wrote the media release was very, very light on the Darwinblather. Mind you, claiming that it all happened via endless iterations of natural selection acting on random mutations wears a bit thin when the time Darwinians thought they had has been sharply reduced. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 3, 2020
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Cell biology, Intelligent Design, speciation
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Researchers: How two bacteria of different species become one

Denyse O'Leary
September 3, 2020
Cell biology, Intelligent Design, speciation
Researcher: “They mix their machinery to survive or do metabolism, and that’s kind of extraordinary, because we always assumed that each and every organism has its own independent identity and machinery,” said Papoutsakis. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 3, 2020
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Darwinism, horizontal gene transfer, Intelligent Design
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Paper: Paradigm shift needed in understanding evolution of complex animals

Denyse O'Leary
September 3, 2020
Darwinism, horizontal gene transfer, Intelligent Design
Paper: “Horizontal gene transfer and mating between diverged lineages blur species boundaries and challenge the reconstruction of evolutionary histories of species and their genomes.” A friend writes to ask, “If we don't have common descent, and we don't have natural selection, why do we still call it evolution?” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 2, 2020
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Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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Does the answer to the origin of life lie in quantum mechanics?

Denyse O'Leary
September 2, 2020
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
Sheldon: As a way out of this [origin of life] dilemma, many physicists reach into the religion bag and pull out spooky QM-at-a-distance. But it isn't a solution, it is an admission of failure. For if they had reached a trifle deeper into the bag they would have pulled out Genesis 1. Instead, they have loosed this uncontrollable "dark matter", "dark energy", "dark QM" chaos god on the ordered universe of laws and purpose. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 1, 2020
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Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
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A classic Darwinian fairy tale: How the human mind jumpstarted itself into existence

Denyse O'Leary
September 1, 2020
Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
Earlier, Frankish explained that Dennett accounts for consciousness as “a temporary level of organisation—a ‘virtual system’—that we create for ourselves through certain learned habits of self-stimulation.” But what are the concepts “we,” “ourselves,” and “self-” even doing in this discussion? If consciousness is an illusion, these concepts are illusions that cannot create anything. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 1, 2020
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Design inference, Intelligent Design
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Sometimes it’s hard for researchers to avoid talking about design in nature

Denyse O'Leary
September 1, 2020
Design inference, Intelligent Design
Marine mussels have “perfected the art,” have they? If they just happen to have evolved to be so clever, why don’t they do more? It’s becoming increasingly obvious that something in nature is clever but it isn’t the mussel. Read More ›