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Denyse O'Leary
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April 30, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Origin Of Life
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Granville Sewell on origin of life as a provably unsolvable problem

Denyse O'Leary
April 30, 2021
Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Origin Of Life
Sewell: I cannot think of anything in all of science that can be stated with more confidence than that a few unintelligent forces of physics alone could not have rearranged the basic particles of physics into Apple iPhones. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 30, 2021
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Why has Nature started endorsing violent Woke politics?

Denyse O'Leary
April 30, 2021
Culture, Intelligent Design, Media, Science
First response: Stuff it. Absolutely. Stuff it. Given the way governments goofed big time throughout the pandemic, doubt about vaccines is a reasonable reaction, if not a correct one. A recent poll shows that nearly half of the vaccine doubters are worried about side effects. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 30, 2021
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Genomics, Intelligent Design
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What? Some viruses use an “alternative” genetic alphabet?

Denyse O'Leary
April 30, 2021
Genomics, Intelligent Design
This is a problem, all right. But really, why do these, or any life/quasi-life forms, have a “genetic alphabet” (an alphabet of life, not learning) at all if everything happened by natural selection acting on random mutation, as the textbooks claim? Let alone an alphabet of life they can just substitute some other letters for? Is there anyone out there who can do the math? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 30, 2021
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Design inference, Intelligent Design
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At Mind Matters News: Abduction: A thinking skill you can do but computers can’t

Denyse O'Leary
April 30, 2021
Design inference, Intelligent Design
Fahsing point outs that criminal investigations are generally abductive rather than deductive. “Try to eliminate as many explanations or lines of inquiry as you can. Just like in science, theories can be truly tested only through falsification.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 29, 2021
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'Junk DNA', Genomics, Intelligent Design
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Project to map 70,000 vertebrate genomes already turning up more bad news for “junk DNA”

Denyse O'Leary
April 29, 2021
'Junk DNA', Genomics, Intelligent Design
Also: “The work revealed that the last surviving kākāpō population, isolated on an island off New Zealand for the last 10,000 years, has somehow purged deleterious mutations, despite the species' low genetic diversity.” Hmm. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 29, 2021
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Cosmology, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Do antimatter stars anti-twinkle?

Denyse O'Leary
April 29, 2021
Cosmology, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Physics
Before we worry too much about the fate of the Standard Model of the universe, it’s worth noting that we are also told that it would be “extremely difficult” to prove that a star is really an anti-star. It’s mainly just an intriguing idea at this point. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 28, 2021
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Media, Naturalism, Racism
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Genetic Literacy Project tackles Critical Race Theory

Denyse O'Leary
April 28, 2021
Culture, Intelligent Design, Media, Naturalism, Racism
The problem with Whittle’s long, thoughtful, and informative piece is that he seems determined to be reasonable and make sense. In the age of the war on math and the war on science, the Twitter mob is the new sanity and acting out is evidence of Virtue. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 28, 2021
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, language
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Why are statements about “evolution” so often just filler?

Denyse O'Leary
April 28, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, language
Laszlo Bencze: "If you say, "Most people prefer vanilla ice cream," you've just made a trivial claim of no great significance. But if you say, "People have evolved to prefer vanilla ice cream," well now you've made an insightful and fascinating statement backed by years of scientific research, no doubt about it." Well, if they can’t have the cattle, they are going to insist on the Big Hat, right? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 28, 2021
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Convergent evolution, Intelligent Design
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Interesting finding: COVID-19 populations show high convergent evolution

Denyse O'Leary
April 28, 2021
Convergent evolution, Intelligent Design
Researchers: We find that two particular mutation rates, G →U and C →U, are similarly elevated and considerably higher than all other mutation rates, causing the majority of mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 genome, and are possibly the result of APOBEC and ROS activity. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 27, 2021
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Rob Sheldon offers some thoughts on Richard Dawkins getting canceled by the American Humanist Association

Denyse O'Leary
April 27, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
Sheldon: Dawkins was part of the cancel culture 30 years ago "Christianity is like smallpox only harder to eradicate". So the fact that the cancel culture turns on its own, is not surprising. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 27, 2021
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Planned Parenthood now denouncing Margaret Sanger — a bit late maybe

Denyse O'Leary
April 27, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
Cancel Culture is basically fascism, tweeted. But the way Darwinism and Social Darwinism sponsored racism — because in that scheme of things, someone always needs to be the lesser human — should have been dealt with a long time ago. There are certainly plenty of other reasons for doubting Darwin and denouncing Sanger today. Read More ›