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Denyse O'Leary
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July 26, 2020
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Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Multiverse, theism
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Wintery Knight: Does the multiverse counter the fine-tuning argument for God’s existence?

Denyse O'Leary
July 26, 2020
Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Multiverse, theism
Knight: The multiverse is not pure nonsense, it is theoretically possible.But even if there were a multiverse, the generator that makes the universes itself would require fine-tuning, so the multiverse doesn’t get rid of the problem. And, as Lightman indicates, we have no independent experimental evidence for the existence of the multiverse in any case. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 26, 2020
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Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, theism
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Can AI stand in for God? John Lennox comments

Denyse O'Leary
July 26, 2020
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, theism
John Lennox : I spent most of my life contending with people that think that science replaces God. And I see that as a very foolish argument really. It’s like saying that if you understand how a Ford motor car works, you don’t need to believe in Henry Ford. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 25, 2020
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Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
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The New York Times runs an “aliens are maybe real” story

Denyse O'Leary
July 25, 2020
Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
There are many total mysteries out there. We need more to go on than mere mystery to take aliens seriously. One remembers the astronomer who convinced himself recently that space detritus Oumuamua was an extraterrestrial light sail and accused the rest of us of being too dumb to see that. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 25, 2020
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Animal minds, Intelligent Design, language
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Asked at Mind Matters News: But, in the end, did the chimpanzee really talk?

Denyse O'Leary
July 25, 2020
Animal minds, Intelligent Design, language
The Smithsonian article tells us a good deal about the motivations of those who, essentially, see bonobos not as apes in need of protection but, to judge from their rhetoric, as something like an oppressed people. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 25, 2020
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Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Medicine
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Is human biology too complicated for humans to understand?

Denyse O'Leary
July 25, 2020
Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Medicine
Craig Mundie’s dream is to build an AI that rivals human intellect to tackle problems in health care. He hopes to be able to customize medicine for every person by building a virtual proxy for every person. It’s almost like he is asking for biology to play tricks on him… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 24, 2020
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Cell biology, Intelligent Design
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Researchers have discovered more about the tiny packages cells use to move molecules around

Denyse O'Leary
July 24, 2020
Cell biology, Intelligent Design
From Florida State: They also showed that the clathrin coat could make a so-called "basket" shape, and one that scientists had thought the protein could not form, showing that clathrin assembly is more complicated than previously thought. ... "We found new structures and patterns that really surprised us." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 24, 2020
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Intelligent Design, Neuroscience
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Researchers: Neurons are programmed for long life, not like other cells

Denyse O'Leary
July 24, 2020
Intelligent Design, Neuroscience
From UCal Riverside: The study, published in the journal Neuron, identifies a mechanism the researchers say is triggered at neuron birth to intrinsically decrease a general form of cell death — or “apoptosis” — specifically in neurons. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 24, 2020
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Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Media, Multiverse
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Multiverse physicist Max Tegmark switches gears; seeks AI to combat “news bias”

Denyse O'Leary
July 24, 2020
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Media, Multiverse
Readers may recall him from the four levels of multiverse he advocated in Scientific American in 2003. But forget that. He now thinks there is too much bias in American media and he is working on an AI program to combat it Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 23, 2020
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Cambrian explosion, Intelligent Design
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Have Darwinians lost another excuse re the unDarwinian Cambrian Explosion?

Denyse O'Leary
July 23, 2020
Cambrian explosion, Intelligent Design
Somebody should invent software for them, maybe called ExcusePro. They just need to set the app to Cambrian Explosion and AI will come up with thousands of excuses in a split second.l They can just keep peeling them off, as needed. Read More ›
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July 23, 2020
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Control vs Anarchy, Defending our Civilization, Geo-strategic issues, rhetoric
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A riot human shield — the face of C21, 4GW Culture-form Marxist insurgency

kairosfocus
July 23, 2020
Control vs Anarchy, Defending our Civilization, Geo-strategic issues, rhetoric

Here is an image from Portland, of the “wall of moms” human shield; one, that is NOT being prominently featured in the major media that are busily trying to paint Federal officers defending a court house after 50 days of rioting as Nazi-style storm troopers: U/D, Jul 24: It seems, I need to show typical logos of the Antifa, to make a point clear: Let me further add, from redspark dot nu, evidently a pro-Antifa site: Since its original emergence in the early 1920s, fascism as an ideology and a movement has been met with fierce opposition. From the very beginning, communists (along with other leftists) have taken up the cause to not simply resist, but to actively oppose and Read More ›