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Denyse O'Leary
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March 5, 2021
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At Scientific American: How some bacteria have achieved “immortality”

Denyse O'Leary
March 5, 2021
Cell biology, Intelligent Design
At Scientific American: In this experiment, cells awoke and multiplied that settled to the bottom when pterosaurs and plesiosaurs drifted overhead. Four geologic periods had ground by, but these microbes, protected from radiation and cosmic rays by a thick coat of ocean and sediment, quietly persisted. And now, when offered a bite, they awoke and carried on as if nothing unusual had happened. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 5, 2021
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Geology, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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Did a magnetic field reversal doom the Neanderthals?

Denyse O'Leary
March 5, 2021
Geology, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
A theory this exotic is bound to be popular. Archaeologist and anthropologist Anna Goldfield assesses the evidence. She points out that Neanderthals generally didn’t live in the areas where they’d be most affected ... (more) Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 5, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Mathematics
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Gregory Chaitin (of Chaitin’s number fame) muses on what makes the great mathematicians stand out

Denyse O'Leary
March 5, 2021
Intelligent Design, Mathematics
Chaitin offers some thoughts on Georg Cantor and Srinivasa Ramanujan as well, both of whom thought that their math discoveries were divinely inspired. Read More ›
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March 5, 2021
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Epistemology, Logic and Reason, Mathematics, Sci-Tech watch, science education, Sciences and Theology, worldview

Semi-circles and right angle dilemmas . . .

kairosfocus
March 5, 2021
Epistemology, Logic and Reason, Mathematics, Sci-Tech watch, science education, Sciences and Theology, worldview

Daily Mail reports on a class assignment for seven year olds that happened to be set for the daughter of a Mathematics Lecturer at Oxford. Maths lecturer is left baffled by his seven-year-old daughter’s geometry homework and turns to Twitter for help – so can YOU work out if it’s true or false? Dr Kit Yates shares his seven-year-old daughter’s maths homework to Twitter The question asked students whether a semi-circle had ‘two right angles’ or not The maths lecturer, from Oxford, admitted that he was stumped by the problem  People were left baffled by the question and came up with conflicting answers  By Kate Dennett For Mailonline Published: 17:40 GMT, 25 February 2021 | Updated: 17:40 GMT, 25 February Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
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March 4, 2021
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Academic Freedom, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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David Klinghoffer muses on the (almost) Cancelation of physicist Eric Hedin

Denyse O'Leary
March 4, 2021
Academic Freedom, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
Klinghoffer: Hedin's persecutor, Jerry Coyne, "was a prominent academic, enjoying maximum career safety at the University of Chicago. Let’s be honest: between the two, there was no contest. Coyne could move against Hedin without fear, and he did. On the other hand, Hedin’s career was on the line, and both knew it." Sounds like Darwinism as she is spoke. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 4, 2021
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Humor, Intelligent Design, Just For Fun, Science, theism
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The Bee stings again: 7 ways Christianity ruined science

Denyse O'Leary
March 4, 2021
Humor, Intelligent Design, Just For Fun, Science, theism
Babylon Bee: The scientific method was created by a devout Christian, which burdens scientists with restrictive fundamentalist rules: The scientific method limits our science. We're tired of fundamentalist Christians always imposing strict rules. Live a little, for goodness sake! Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 4, 2021
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Ethan Siegel: Failure to replicate a dark matter experiment is “an incredible success” for the scientific method

Denyse O'Leary
March 4, 2021
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
Siegel offers an inside look at the details. While the finding is doubtless a success for the scientific method, it must be frustrating for those physicists who need dark matter to exist in order to make cosmology understandable — but can’t find any. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 4, 2021
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Culture, Darwinism, Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine
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US Prez accuses Texas and Mississippi governors of “Neanderthal thinking”

Denyse O'Leary
March 4, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine
How about New York governor Cuomo packing nursing homes with COVID patients, which resulted in thousands of deaths? Now that we have channelled Neanderthal man anyway, does he have an opinion on that? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 3, 2021
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Granville Sewell: Why does Darwinism remain popular when new findings make it less plausible every day?

Denyse O'Leary
March 3, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
Sewell: Most non-scientists intuitively understand that explaining how plants and animals, and intelligent, conscious humans, could have arisen from a lifeless, barren planet is a very different and much more difficult problem than others solved by science. But most scientists are still confident that nothing could possibly be beyond the reach of their science. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 3, 2021
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Culture, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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Researchers: Early stone tool culture of Neanderthals and other humans lasted much longer than thought

Denyse O'Leary
March 3, 2021
Culture, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
Overlap between the two cultures for many thousands of years would make a lot of sense because the newer technologies may not have been self-evidently better. Many considerations of time, energy, and risk would need to be factored in. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 3, 2021
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Evolution, Intelligent Design
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At Oscillations: Cytogeneticist Antonio Lima-de-Faria torches obscurantism in science in new book, Suzan Mazur reports

Denyse O'Leary
March 3, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design
He was an early non-Darwinian evolutionist (1988 is pretty early), mainly a structuralist. He continues to publish books at nearly 100 years of age. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 2, 2021
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Atheism, Intelligent Design, Multiverse
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Michael Egnor on why the multiverse is just a way of evading reality

Denyse O'Leary
March 2, 2021
Atheism, Intelligent Design, Multiverse
Michael Egnor: The fact that the universe is tuned — that is, the fact there is any consistency at all in the laws of physics — demonstrates God’s existence. This is Aquinas’ Fifth Way, which is the proof from design. Read More ›