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2020

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post
Author
Barry Arrington
Date
June 19, 2020
Categories
Intelligent Design

I Shall Not Live by Lies

Barry Arrington
June 19, 2020
Intelligent Design
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A man is not a woman, and anyone who says or implies otherwise is a liar. On June 15, 2020, this lie prevailed in the Supreme Court of the United States of America. This lie is now the law, and it will be enforced with all of the terrible power of the government. Alexander Solzhenitsyn said this about lies: Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me. And he said this about refusing to surrender one’s soul to a terrible lying government: It will not be an easy choice for a body, but it is only one for a soul. And if we get cold feet, even taking Read More ›

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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
June 19, 2020
Categories
Academic Freedom
Intelligent Design
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Do universities still need intellectual freedom? Why?

News
June 19, 2020
Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design
3
At one time, a university education was a prized opportunity to be part of an intellectual elite. Academic freedom was a club rule because it served well in the days when Einstein and Bohr, to name just two, provided us with a much better understanding of physics by overturning all that we thought we knew in certain areas. But maybe things have changed. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
June 17, 2020
Categories
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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Michael Behe on how the new Lenski paper demonstrates a key problem with Darwinism

News
June 17, 2020
Darwinism, Intelligent Design
3
Behe: Let me emphasize: the only result from the decades-long, 50,000-plus generation E. coli evolution experiment that even seemed at first blush like it had a bit of potential to yield a novel pathway in the bacterium has resulted instead in spectacular devolution. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
June 15, 2020
Categories
Extraterrestrial life
Intelligent Design
Religion
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New “Astrobiological Copernican Limit” claims 36 intelligent civilizations

News
June 15, 2020
Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, Religion
3
It’s all malarkey. In the real world, it would be awfully nice to find fossil bacteria on Mars. When that seems to be taking some time, we hear about 36 alien civs. That’s because there’ll always be a market for We Are Not Alone. The thing is, it used to be called religion, not science. And it still IS religion, not science. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
June 15, 2020
Categories
Exoplanets
Extraterrestrial life
Intelligent Design
Origin Of Life
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Is NOTHING sacred? Silicon-based life “may not be likely”?

News
June 15, 2020
Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
1
At Air & Space: "There aren’t many organic silicon compounds to begin with, and silicon-based life in water, or on an oxygen-rich planet, would be all but impossible as any free silicon would react quickly and furiously to form silicate rock. And that’s pretty much the end of the story." Read More ›