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Denyse O'Leary
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February 21, 2021
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Artificial Intelligence, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physics
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Sabine Hossenfelder explains why she thinks that the computer sim universe is pseudoscience

Denyse O'Leary
February 21, 2021
Artificial Intelligence, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physics
Hossenfelder: You can approximate the laws that we know with a computer simulation – we do this all the time – but if that was how nature actually worked, we could see the difference. Indeed, physicists have looked for signs that natural laws really proceed step by step, like in a computer code, but their search has come up empty handed. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 20, 2021
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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Researchers: A form of Darwinism preceded and enabled the origin of life

Denyse O'Leary
February 20, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
Those of us who are already skeptical of the immense role Darwinism is supposed to play after life already exists will find this prebiotic Darwinism hard to swallow. But reader Eric Anderson writes to assure us that that is in fact what origin of life researchers really do believe. Question: If it’s that simple, why isn’t life coming into existence from non-life all the time? As opposed to, say, never? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 20, 2021
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Genomics, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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Interesting new items from the Neanderthal genome

Denyse O'Leary
February 20, 2021
Genomics, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
At Sapiens: Thanks to this work, we now know details about Neanderthals that the archaeological record alone could never have provided. For example, fragments of DNA from specimens found in Spain and Italy showed that at least some Neanderthals likely had pale skin and reddish hair—although, interestingly, the variations for this coloring are different from the variants found in modern humans. Apparently, redheads among Homo sapiens evolved separately… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 20, 2021
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Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
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Ethan Siegel tells us why he thinks colonizing super-Earths would end in disaster

Denyse O'Leary
February 20, 2021
Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
Siegel thinks that a rocky planet of more than 30% greater radius than Earth stands a good change of becoming a gas giant in consequence of its size. Earth is the right size to avoid that. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 19, 2021
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Genetics, Intelligent Design
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Sequencing oldest DNA ever from mammoths provides a window into limits on recovering DNA

Denyse O'Leary
February 19, 2021
Genetics, Intelligent Design
At Smithsonian Magazine: That Mammuthus columbi originated as a new species, born of a hybridization event, “has major implications for our understanding of the population structure of Pleistocene megabeasts,” MacPhee says. The ancestors of the woolly mammoth and the Krestova mammoth had diverged from each other for about a million years before a population produced a hybrid that was different from both, giving rise to Mammuthus columbi. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 19, 2021
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Academic Freedom, Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design
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A Twitter mob made a mistake when it went after an AI industry giant

Denyse O'Leary
February 19, 2021
Academic Freedom, Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design
Pedro Domingos: In my confrontation with the AI cancel crowd, I was particularly helped by the fact that several of the ringleaders are (or call themselves) professional AI ethicists. Some of them are even well-known within their field. When they serially engaged in childish and unethical behavior in full view of their colleagues, they did my job for me. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 18, 2021
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Some thoughts from a reader on Behe’s vindication at Lehigh

Denyse O'Leary
February 18, 2021
Intelligent Design
Remember, these same authors wrote a scathing review of Darwin Devolves in the journal Evolution. Now, somehow, they must hold their position of opposing Darwin Devolves, while presenting compelling evidence to support Darwin Devolves. Quite a conundrum! Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 18, 2021
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Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Behe vindicated (still not cited) at his own LeHigh University

Denyse O'Leary
February 18, 2021
Darwinism, Intelligent Design
One might ask: If things go downhill that way and “directionality and progress in evolution may be illusory,” what is the source of intelligent designs? An intelligence in or beyond nature? We’ll take either as an answer, to start a discussion. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 18, 2021
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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At The Guardian: What to do about the Political Incorrectness of Darwin’s Descent of Man

Denyse O'Leary
February 18, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
We don’t think Darwin should be Cancelled either because we don’t live in the Year Zero. But if some were minded to Cancel Darwin, this would not be a very good argument against it. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 17, 2021
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Culture, Darwinism, Genetics, Intelligent Design
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At Nature Heredity Mike Behe vindicated but not cited

Denyse O'Leary
February 17, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Genetics, Intelligent Design
At Nature Heredity: Discoveries during the subsequent two decades have continued to support the idea that loss of function contributes to adaptation (Murray 2020), with cases of adaptive or beneficial loss of function being discovered across diverse organisms, genes, traits, and environments.” Read More ›