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Denyse O'Leary
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August 24, 2021
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Astronomy, Intelligent Design
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Pluto is still planet in the eyes of many

Denyse O'Leary
August 24, 2021
Astronomy, Intelligent Design
Grossman: "... since 2006, we’ve learned that Pluto has an atmosphere and maybe even clouds. It has mountains made of water ice, fields of frozen nitrogen, methane snow–capped peaks, and dunes and volcanoes. “It’s a dynamic, complex world unlike any other orbiting the sun,” journalist Christopher Crockett wrote in Science News in 2015 when NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 24, 2021
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'Junk DNA', Intelligent Design, speciation
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Researchers: “Junk DNA” plays a key role in speciation

Denyse O'Leary
August 24, 2021
'Junk DNA', Intelligent Design, speciation
At Phys.org: When the researchers deleted a protein called Prod that binds to a specific satellite DNA sequence in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, the flies' chromosomes scattered outside of the nucleus into tiny globs of cellular material called micronuclei, and the flies died. "But we realized at this point that this [piece of] satellite DNA that was bound by the Prod protein was completely missing in the nearest relatives of Drosophila melanogaster," Jagannathan said. "It completely doesn't exist. So that's an interesting little problem." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 24, 2021
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Evolution, Intelligent Design, Plants, stasis
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Fossil spores on land pushed back 20 million years

Denyse O'Leary
August 24, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Plants, stasis
The big story here isn’t about the disconnect between molecular and fossil data; it’s about how early on more complex life forms got started (all that complexity in such a short time isn’t looking good for random mutations). Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 24, 2021
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, speciation
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How things have changed! Even Darwin’s Finches’ defenders are spooked

Denyse O'Leary
August 24, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, speciation
Peter and Rosemary Grant, the iconic Darwinian speciation couple, are backtracking in the face of new evidence that it doesn’t really work that way. On the other hand, this is a great time to be a recovering Darwinist. The world is much more interesting than that. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 24, 2021
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Atheism, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, theism
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Jerry Coyne vs Ross Douthat on science-based belief in God

Denyse O'Leary
August 24, 2021
Atheism, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, theism
Coyne makes a virtue of the fact that he finds typical, widespread points of view hard to comprehend. Uncommon Descent to Jerry Coyne: Come in Coyne, are you reading us?: Buckle that seatbelt, man! This is the BIG roller coaster, Flyin’ Annie. Not the little ones you are used to. Over and out. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 23, 2021
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Ethics, Intelligent Design, Peer review, Science
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We did NOT make this up: Famed Honesty researcher’s paper retracted over made-up data

Denyse O'Leary
August 23, 2021
Ethics, Intelligent Design, Peer review, Science
Of course, before the revelation that a main experiment was faked, Ariely was featured in TED talks, had an advice column in the Wall Street Journal and wrote a New York Times bestseller. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 23, 2021
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Intelligent Design
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At Evolution News: Twilight of the Godless Universe

Denyse O'Leary
August 23, 2021
Intelligent Design
If so, fashionable atheists must all just want to kill Meyer for busting up a sweet faith-and-science racket. Whatever any establishment figure with a PhD in science wants to call science is science and obedient religion profs just bumble along, glad to be noticed. Actually, with all the stuff we have discovered that does not confirm just what everyone thinks, it's a pretty decrepit racket now. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 23, 2021
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Mind, Philosophy
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At Mind Matters News: Quantum physicist shows how consciousness may create reality

Denyse O'Leary
August 23, 2021
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Mind, Philosophy
In his argument against physicalism (physical nature is all there is), Tim Andersen draws from the 19th-century philosopher Schopenhauer the concept of Will as the basis of all reality. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 22, 2021
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Evolution, Intelligent Design, Religion
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Kirk Durston on evolution and faith

Denyse O'Leary
August 22, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Religion
Durston: What if you found out that one of the most frequent reasons that people have abandoned their faith was itself looking very sketchy indeed? I’m talking about evolution and its consistent failure to verify its most important prediction — without which it is dead in the water, as it were. The Darwinian theory that the full diversity of life evolved from a single primitive cell. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 22, 2021
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Animal minds, Intelligent Design
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On a lighter note: Maybe that sea snake mistakes you for a mate

Denyse O'Leary
August 22, 2021
Animal minds, Intelligent Design
Basically, snakes can be stupider than we think and smarter than we think at the same time. Except, around here, we don’t think that the “smartness” stuff is the snakes’ own. They got that from the design of the universe. Otherwise, they would be coiling around the stock market too. And they aren’t. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 22, 2021
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Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Colin Patterson: A key late twentieth-century establishment Darwin skeptic

Denyse O'Leary
August 22, 2021
Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
The paleontologist is credited with starting a “revolution.” But then the tenured fossils struck back. If you have ever wondered whether a lot of establishment thinking was blithering nonsense, spare a kind thought for Colin Patterson… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 22, 2021
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, rhetoric
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Rationalist skeptic comments on the manipulative arguments for Darwinism

Denyse O'Leary
August 22, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, rhetoric
Part of an excerpt from his new book, Taking Leave of Darwin (2021). Science historian Michael Flannery, among others, have often noted this style of Darwinian argument. One might say that it relies on the public’s willingness to be persuaded of the proposition far more on the innate intellectual value of the proposition. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 21, 2021
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Culture, Intelligent Design
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Online (mainly) Spanish ID conference September 11–12, 2021

Denyse O'Leary
August 21, 2021
Culture, Intelligent Design
There will be 12 talks, including Steve Meyer and Casey Luskin (with translation ) The others will be Spanish-language profs from Spain, Argentina, and Chile — and, of course, Brazil (Marcos Eberlin). Read More ›