Uncommon Descent Serving The Intelligent Design Community

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Denyse O'Leary
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December 3, 2020
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Can a big enough computer come up with a Theory of Everything? Eric Holloway says yer dreamin’…

Denyse O'Leary
December 3, 2020
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
Bottom line: The rigorously proven No Free Lunch theorem shows that physicists will always be needed to determine the correct questions. No computer will do all our thinking for us. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 2, 2020
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Academic Freedom, Cambrian explosion, Intelligent Design, speciation
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Is a vast variety of new cichlid species in ten million years a “burst”?

Denyse O'Leary
December 2, 2020
Academic Freedom, Cambrian explosion, Intelligent Design, speciation
One can talk about the cichlid "burst" that lasted ten million years but now, the term “explosion” has become politically incorrect usage to describe the Cambrian because shut up. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 2, 2020
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Extraterrestrial life, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design
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So fine tuning of the universe for life goes right down to the level of the atom?

Denyse O'Leary
December 2, 2020
Extraterrestrial life, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design
Our universe seems fine-tuned for life to come into existence, as Michael Denton stresses. If so, life may indeed inhabit other planets. If people believe that there is intelligent life on other planets in the galaxy, the best theory to support it, absent evidence at present, is intelligent design. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 1, 2020
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Evolution, Intelligent Design
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New hopes raised for recovering skin, eggshell samples from fossils

Denyse O'Leary
December 1, 2020
Evolution, Intelligent Design
A real advantage is that promising “biomarkers” may be found in fossils that are too fragmentary to make it into the display collection. If so, expect to hear expressions like “unexpected,” “remarkable,” “earlier than thought” and “more complex than expected” quite frequently. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 1, 2020
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Just For Fun
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The monolith has disappeared…

Denyse O'Leary
December 1, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Just For Fun
The CORRECT explanation, of course, is that it lost the battle for survival of the fittest to fitter competitors and will not contribute, starting from non-life, to the origin of a new type of life via abiogenesis. But apparently, a new monolith has evolved and then suddenly gone extinct in Romania. Nature red in tooth and claw, and all that... Read More ›