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Denyse O'Leary
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February 10, 2021
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Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design
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Higher mutation rates in non-double helix DNA create intriguing alternative to common ancestry

Denyse O'Leary
February 10, 2021
Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design
Researcher: "But it's possible that the mutation rate is so high in some of these non-B DNA regions that the same mutation could occur independently in several different individuals. If this is true, it would change how we think about evolution." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 9, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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At ScienceNews: “Fake” fossils more common than real ones

Denyse O'Leary
February 9, 2021
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
“Fake” here just means inanimate objects called bimorphs that form naturally and resemble microfossils. Doubtless, this will complicate searches for the earliest life, which is most likely evidenced as microfossils if it is evidenced at all. That is, of a given specimen, was it ever life? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 9, 2021
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Mind, Neuroscience
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Michael Egnor asks if materialist neuroscience is an unwitting Sokal hoax

Denyse O'Leary
February 9, 2021
Mind, Neuroscience
Egnor thinks that while physicist Alan Sokal hoaxed postmodern journals (the famous Sokal hoax. of 1996), materialists like Francis Crick (1916–2004) seem to hoax themselves. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 8, 2021
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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More unexpected stuff for Darwin Day – alternative history Darwin

Denyse O'Leary
February 8, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
Curious comment there: "Finally, the paper suggests another counter-factual hypothesis: deleting not Darwin and his Origin but the Darwin Industry itself. This may allow us to read the Origin of Species with fresh eyes and to discover Darwin’s life-long interest in variation and its laws, as many of his early readers did." But we could do that today, psychologically, and it wouldn't be alternative history. It would just be what we did. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 8, 2021
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Cosmology, Information, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Rob Sheldon weighs in on the fundamental building blocks of nature – particles, fields, or …

Denyse O'Leary
February 8, 2021
Cosmology, Information, Intelligent Design, Physics
Sheldon: It is curious that the author of this Aeon article has frozen Wheeler at his second stage, neglecting to mention his final conclusion. Read More ›
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Granville Sewell
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February 8, 2021
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Intelligent Design

Some Problems Can Be Proved Unsolvable

Granville Sewell
February 8, 2021
Intelligent Design

Here are two mathematical problems for you to work on in your spare time, and one problem from biology: Find positive integers x,y, z and n>2, such that xn+yn=zn. Remove two diagonally opposite corner squares from a chess board, and cover the remaining 62 squares with 31 dominoes, each of which covers two adjacent squares. Explain how life could have originated and evolved into intelligent humans, through entirely natural (unintelligent) processes. You can spend a lot of time trying different solutions to mathematical problem #1. After a while you might begin to wonder if it can be done, but don’t give up, there are an infinite number of integers you can try for x,y,z and n. For problem #2, get Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
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February 7, 2021
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Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Media
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At Snopes: Creationism “bears all the hallmarks of a conspiracy theory”

Denyse O'Leary
February 7, 2021
Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Media
Curiously, Snopes admits, regarding the piece from The Conversation, “This content is shared here because the topic may interest Snopes readers; it does not, however, represent the work of Snopes fact-checkers or editors.” So… they can get away with publishing this kind of thing because they did not check it out? That is further evidence that Snopes is going downhill fast as a rumor squelching site. Read More ›