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Denyse O'Leary
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July 14, 2020
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Academic Freedom, Culture, Intelligent Design
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Larry Krauss returns as a free speech champion

Denyse O'Leary
July 14, 2020
Academic Freedom, Culture, Intelligent Design
What does it mean, not to feel “safe” sitting across the table at dinner—at a university hall in Toronto—with someone with whom you disagree on a current issue? As noted above, these people are not scholars and they should not be listened to in any forum other than an anxiety recovery group. Read More ›
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July 12, 2020
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A meditation on our moral struggle/ enslavement in the face of knowing the right

kairosfocus
July 12, 2020
Intelligent Design

One of the most humbling aspects of the human dilemma is that too often we consent to the right but find ourselves trapped in or at least struggling with the wrong. This is discussed in Rom 7: Rom 7:21 . . . I find it to be a law [–> of reliable observation, a law of human nature] that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. 22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, 23 but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
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July 10, 2020
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Convergent evolution, Intelligent Design
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Researchers: Toothed and non-toothed (baleen) whales evolved similar features independently

Denyse O'Leary
July 10, 2020
Convergent evolution, Intelligent Design
Researcher: "The degree to which baleen whales and dolphins independently arrive at the same overall swimming adaptations, rather than these traits evolving once in the common ancestor of both groups, surprised us," Read More ›