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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 ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 30, 2020
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extinction, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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Tens of thousands of rock paintings from 12,500 ya discovered in Colombia

Denyse O'Leary
November 30, 2020
extinction, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
From The Guardian: Their date is based partly on their depictions of now-extinct ice age animals, such as the mastodon, a prehistoric relative of the elephant that hasn’t roamed South America for at least 12,000 years. There are also images of the palaeolama, an extinct camelid, as well as giant sloths and ice age horses. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 30, 2020
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Dark matter and dark energy as 21st century Ptolemaic epicycles? – Rob Sheldon offers some thoughts

Denyse O'Leary
November 30, 2020
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
Why can’t they find dark matter, despite much search? Sheldon: The old joke is that a man is looking under a lamppost one night. The policeman asks what he is doing. "Looking for my keys" he replies. "Did you lose them here?" "No, but the light is better over here." (And the funding is better for some research than for others.) Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 30, 2020
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Academic Freedom, Culture, Intelligent Design
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Snowball Earth prof attacked by Cancel Culture

Denyse O'Leary
November 30, 2020
Academic Freedom, Culture, Intelligent Design
Jacobson warns, “What is so disturbing is the large number of graduate and post-doctoral students who signed the list of demands. I warned in 2017 that STEM would not be immune to the social justice (and racial) warfare tearing through universities.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 30, 2020
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Cambrian explosion, Intelligent Design
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At Geological Society of America’s house rag: QUIT calling it the Cambrian Explosion!

Denyse O'Leary
November 30, 2020
Cambrian explosion, Intelligent Design
Sorry, guys. The Cambrian is a bit like quantum theory. Anyone who ISN’T flummoxed by it doesn’t understand it. Now comes the punch line: “We suggest, as an alternative to “Cambrian explosion,” the Great Cambrian Biodiversification (GCB)…” Sure, that’ll catch on. It sounds like a large animal vet’s description of an elephant’s bowel problems. Read More ›
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November 30, 2020
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Control vs Anarchy, Defending our Civilization, Geo-strategic issues, News Highlights, Politics, rhetoric

UD Live Event from Nov 3, US Election cont’d: BBC — yes the BEEB — on BLM’s Marxist founders, “[We] fought to change history and we won”

kairosfocus
November 30, 2020
Control vs Anarchy, Defending our Civilization, Geo-strategic issues, News Highlights, Politics, rhetoric

Okay, we are looking at the victory lap being taken (a bit prematurely, methinks) by the BLM trio of marxist founders. Here is BEEB: Black Lives Matter founders: We fought to change history and we won Published14 hours ago The year 2020 will be remembered for a lot of things – not least the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement around the world. The organisation has led huge street rallies and high-profile campaigns against racism and police brutality. Now the three women who founded the movement have told the BBC they believe it has transformed politics. “Black people alongside our allies stood up to change the course of history and we won,” said Alicia Garza. Garza and her BLM Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
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November 29, 2020
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Intelligent Design, Religion, Science
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At Nautilus: How Einstein reconciled religion to science

Denyse O'Leary
November 29, 2020
Intelligent Design, Religion, Science
Actually, despite the article’s title, Einstein didn’t reconcile anything. He said different things at different times to different people. And it didn’t matter. People took what they wanted from it. It sounds as though he didn’t really have a firm opinion. Read More ›