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Denyse O'Leary
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July 15, 2021
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A hint as to how unicellular life forms grew to be multicellular?

Denyse O'Leary
July 15, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design
Margaret Helder comments on the study: "Lots of algae exhibit clumping together in groups. This is not the definition of multicellularity. There are quite a number of colonial relatives of Chlamydomonas, for example like Eudorina, Pandorina and Volvox. They are not evolving into anything." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 15, 2021
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Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Natural selection
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At Oscillations: Michael Ruse’s attempted takedown of evolutionary biologist Richard Lewontin (but read the story!)

Denyse O'Leary
July 15, 2021
Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Natural selection
Ruse appears to have been a relentless enforcer of Darwinian orthodoxy behind the scenes, including a blistering attack on philosopher Jerry Fodor, who questioned it. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 14, 2021
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Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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Historian Richard Weikart on acceptance of Darwinian evolution and racism …

Denyse O'Leary
July 14, 2021
Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
Richard Weikart: I have done a good deal of research on this topic, and as it turns out, the vast majority of white supremacists today embrace Darwinian evolution and use it as evidence for their white supremacy. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 14, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
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Is panpsychism replacing materialism?

Denyse O'Leary
July 14, 2021
Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
Panpsychism, in the form of Integrated Information Theory (IIT), is a much more serious competitor to dualism and idealism than materialism could hope to be. Panpsychists are not trying to claim that consciousness is merely an illusion. They may be wrong but they aren't ridiculous. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 13, 2021
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Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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At Evolution News and Science Today: The casual racism of Charles Darwin

Denyse O'Leary
July 13, 2021
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
Shedinger calls Allison Hopper’s piece in Scientific American, “startlingly vacuous,” which raises — once again — the question of why on earth the mag published it. It’s not as if there is no scholarship on the topic of Darwin and racism. Did the editors not want to address that scholarship? Well, we can’t read minds but we can make some reasonable guesses. How about: Create a big uproar and hope everyone will focus on that and not on the topic at hand? Shedinger also notes perceptively, “One does not become racist because of the view one holds on human origins. One becomes racist for other complex reasons and then reads that racism back into whatever view on human origins you hold.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 13, 2021
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Creationism, Intelligent Design, Racism, Religion
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At PJ Media: A response to religious claims made in Scientific American’s “denial of evolution is white supremacy” piece

Denyse O'Leary
July 13, 2021
Creationism, Intelligent Design, Racism, Religion
Bolyard: “I’m not here to debate the hows and whys of creationism. I’ll point you to Answers in Genesis for that. But I want to point out a couple of shameless strawmen in Hopper’s piece that discredit everything else she writes in this piece.” Of course. Hopper was almost certainly making it up as she went along, trusting that few readers had read or spent much time on the relevant literature. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 13, 2021
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Culture, Evolution, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution
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Our Danish correspondent Karsten Pultz on how evo folk and ID folk think differently when arguing

Denyse O'Leary
July 13, 2021
Culture, Evolution, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution
ID has the benefit of being able to argue for design by comparing to objects we know for certain were intelligently designed. Evolution does not have this advantage. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 12, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Peer review, Science
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Asked at Reason Magazine: How much science research is fraudulent?

Denyse O'Leary
July 12, 2021
Intelligent Design, Peer review, Science
Bailey: The possibility that fraud may well be responsible for a significant proportion of the false positives reported in the scientific literature is suggested by a couple of new Dutch studies. Both studies are preprints that report the results of surveys of thousands of scientists in the Netherlands aiming to probe the prevalence of questionable research practices and scientific misconduct. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 12, 2021
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Intelligent Design
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Why does it matter how many atoms there are in the observable universe?

Denyse O'Leary
July 12, 2021
Intelligent Design
If this figure of 10^82 is reasonable, we could ask questions like the likelihood of throwing a billion heads in a row in coin tosses. If that’s out of range, what about the likelihood of similar feats created by natural selection acting on random mutation (Darwinism)? Read More ›
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Joshua Gidney
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July 12, 2021
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Biology, Darwinism, Evolution, Evolutionary biology, Food for thought, General interest, ID Foundations, Intelligent Design, Media, Naturalism, Philosophy, Politics, Popular culture, Science, science education, Society, Video, worldview
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Video Presentation: Why the Debate Over Intelligent Design Really Matters

Joshua Gidney
July 12, 2021
Biology, Darwinism, Evolution, Evolutionary biology, Food for thought, General interest, ID Foundations, Intelligent Design, Media, Naturalism, Philosophy, Politics, Popular culture, Science, science education, Society, Video, worldview

I have recently posted a new video presentation on my YouTube channel. In the video I talk about some of the reasons why I think the debate over Intelligent Design and biological origins is of great significance. Aside from just being a fascinating area, it has many implications in several areas of life. This video, while far from perfect, is a big step up from my last few videos. I’ve done a fair amount of editing on this one, and took time to make it a little more professional, with music, slides, and photos. I hope you enjoy it, and it gets you thinking a little about why this topic is of importance to you also. Why the Question of Read More ›