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Denyse O'Leary
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March 9, 2021
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Biology, Intelligent Design
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Sea slugs cut off their own heads and grow a new body

Denyse O'Leary
March 9, 2021
Biology, Intelligent Design
Gizmodo: Mitoh’s team suggested that autotomy in the wild could happen in Elysia atroviridis because the slug is regularly encumbered with planktonic parasites—perhaps leaving a parasite-ridden body behind to grow a new one is the easiest way of dealing with the infestation. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 8, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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Researchers: Surface bubbles could have somehow become Earth’s first cells. Hey, James Tour will LOVE this — um, not!

Denyse O'Leary
March 8, 2021
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
Origin of life and Darwinian evolution seem to attract the airiest, flimsiest speculations. Is it just a coincidence or could there be a reason for that? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 8, 2021
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Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind
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This time, human evolution was shaped by a quest for tasty food

Denyse O'Leary
March 8, 2021
Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind
The problem journalists always seem to leave hanging when writing about new theories of human evolution is, for example: If early humans weren’t smart already, they would not have learned how to control fire. If they weren’t aesthetically sensitive, they wouldn’t have noticed aesthetic differences in taste. Darwinist theories about the human mind seem to be one long parade of affirming the consequent. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 7, 2021
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Darwinism, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design
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Cornelius Hunter now has a YouTube channel, Darwin’s God

Denyse O'Leary
March 7, 2021
Darwinism, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design
Hunter: Not only is there is no compelling scientific explanation for how the genetic code could have evolved, there also are significant problems with the theory. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 7, 2021
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Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, theism
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Eric Metaxas interviews Stephen Meyer on his new book

Denyse O'Leary
March 7, 2021
Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, theism
Meyer: Historian of science Frederic Burnham has stated that the God hypothesis is now a more respectable hypothesis than at any time in the last one hundred years. The Return of the God Hypothesis looks at three critical sources of evidence. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 7, 2021
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Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Multiverse, Physics, theism
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At The Conversation: Can the laws of physics disprove God?

Denyse O'Leary
March 7, 2021
Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Multiverse, Physics, theism
This seems to be a rather light piece intellectually but it gives some sense of what the wine bar would be saying about God and science if COVID-19 crazy hadn’t put it out of business: "But God isn’t a valid scientific explanation. The theory of the multiverse, instead, solves the mystery because it allows different universes to have different physical laws. So it’s not surprising that we should happen to see ourselves in one of the few universes that could support life. Of course, you can’t disprove the idea that a God may have created the multiverse." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 7, 2021
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Atheism, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, theism
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Kurt Gödel was unhappy with atheism and finally he blasted one fashionable type to smithereens

Denyse O'Leary
March 7, 2021
Atheism, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, theism
More scandalous still, Gödel was not a Darwinist: “I believe that mechanism in biology is a prejudice of our time which will be disproved.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 6, 2021
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Information, Intelligent Design
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C. Elegans (roundworm) perceives color without eyes

Denyse O'Leary
March 6, 2021
Information, Intelligent Design
At The Scientist: The new results show that the worms are “actually comparing ratios of wavelengths, and using that information to make decisions,” he says. “And that, I think, was completely surprising and unexpected.” … Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 6, 2021
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Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
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Could Earth be in quarantine from space aliens?

Denyse O'Leary
March 6, 2021
Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
The Percolation Hypothesis holds that they can’t overcome the laws of physics any more than we can and that colonies would lose touch with the home planet due to slow communications, thus losing interest in space travel goals. But now, if there is a purpose behind the universe, maybe we and the aliens weren’t intended to meet. That was C.S. Lewis’s view. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 6, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Mathematics
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Sabine Hossenfelder asks, Do complex numbers exist?

Denyse O'Leary
March 6, 2021
Intelligent Design, Mathematics
The people who don’t think complex numbers really exist would probably not be happy with quantum mechanics being even more non-local without them. But of course, if complex numbers really do exist, then immaterial things really exist. Not a good time to be a hard core materialist. Read More ›