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2020

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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 14, 2020
Categories
Cell biology
Intelligent Design
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Cells ordered to commit suicide don’t necessarily die

News
November 14, 2020
Cell biology, Intelligent Design
2
Isn’t that remarkable? The phenomenon that enables cells to avoid committing suicide when “ordered” to do so (apoptosis) is so old that it goes back to the common ancestor of flies and mice. How much time was there for such a complex system to evolve purely randomly, as in a Darwinian scheme? Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 14, 2020
Categories
Extraterrestrial life
Intelligent Design
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Transcension hypothesis: The aliens live at the nanoscale and are too small for us to see

News
November 14, 2020
Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
2
Recall that shrinking or growing can both be seen as forms of travel. While the Transcension hypothesis has the extraterrestrials traveling away from us by shrinking, it is also possible to travel away by growing rapidly. Some religious writers, like C.S. Lewis, picture Hell as a very tiny place. Those who escape it simply grow far beyond its scale. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 13, 2020
Categories
Culture
Darwinism
Racism
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An academic discovers the “dark side” of Darwinism

News
November 13, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Racism
4
Austin Anderson: Now I understand why I’ve never been asked in a biology class to read the original text of Darwin’s theories: Our contemporary reverence for Darwin’s gentlemanliness and the pure scientific brilliance of his theories is an overly optimistic illusion that shatters upon a closer look at his publications. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 13, 2020
Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Mind
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A return of purpose to biology?

News
November 13, 2020
Biology, Intelligent Design, Mind
2
He turns out to be looking for a “bottom up” theory of agency—that is, a materialist one. And he admits that there is no such theory but he offers “a sketch of what a solution might look like.” One suspects that materialists will be offering such sketches centuries from now. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 12, 2020
Categories
Darwinism
speciation
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At New Scientist: Questioning the idea of species

News
November 12, 2020
Darwinism, speciation
3
It's good news that they are thinking this way. If we’re going to vote money and legislation for environmental protection, we do need useful working classifications. Why waste time, money and energy “saving” a “species” that doesn’t really exist as a separate entity when some whole ecologies are critically endangered? And it doesn't matter how we choose to classify the "species" within them. At least these are more constructive discussions to be involved in than attacking or defending Darwinism. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 11, 2020
Categories
Intelligent Design
Irreducible Complexity
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Karsten Pultz on the recent Behe-Swamidass debate

News
November 11, 2020
Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity
4
Pultz: In my view, Swamidass excels as an expert in smokescreens; he can talk endlessly without nailing down tangible and memorable points. Although pressured more than once by Behe to deliver at least a single counter argument to IC, he did not come up with anything containing even a whiff of substance. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 11, 2020
Categories
science education
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In the science fraud stakes, Haeckel beats Piltdown …?

News
November 11, 2020
science education
2
The fascinating thing about Haeckel’s embryos, which do take the crown for long running fakes that actually matter, is that they were well known for a long time to be fake and even defended. But upholding Darwinism so conveniently for so long gave the faked drawings their legitimacy. Read More ›