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Denyse O'Leary
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September 30, 2021
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Social scientist: It’s naive to see science as apolitical

Denyse O'Leary
September 30, 2021
Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
Dotson: In a culture dominated by political scientism, citizens and policymakers forget how to listen, debate, and explore possibilities for compromise or concession with one another. Instead, we come to believe that our opponents only need to be informed of the “correct” facts or truths, harshly sanctioned, or simply ignored. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 30, 2021
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Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Mind
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At Mind Matters News: Did minimal consciousness drive the Cambrian Explosion?

Denyse O'Leary
September 30, 2021
Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Mind
Eva Jablonka’s team makes the daring case, repurposing Hungarian chemist Tibor Gánti’s origin of life studies. Where their approach differs from many is that they do not try to identify a mechanism of consciousness. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 30, 2021
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Books of interest, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Book from Cambridge defends ID. So readers write to say…

Denyse O'Leary
September 30, 2021
Books of interest, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
Of course Darwinism is nonsense. But it is profitable nonsense and easy to spout in an uncritical environment. The question of the day is, how do we get probing critiques to travel from the ivied walls to the pop science mag rack — where, it is fair to say, most writers and readers are unaware of any of the problems identified. So far as they know, Darwin brilliantly explained why men golf and women cheat and some people go to church… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 30, 2021
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Jerry Coyne as opponent of Cancel Culture

Denyse O'Leary
September 30, 2021
Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design
One used to hear many people say “Cancel Culture is so ridiculous, it will go away soon.” Well, that’s not happening. Evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne, who usually writes about other matters, discusses two representative incidents. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 30, 2021
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Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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Researchers: Our genetic history shows telltale signs of periods of starvation

Denyse O'Leary
September 30, 2021
Human evolution, Intelligent Design
From findings: Follow-up experiments in mice pointed to a potential explanation for why: the deletion appeared to limit male animals’ size when fed a calorie-restricted diet. This sort of growth limitation could help males survive lean times but limit their reproductive success in times of plenty. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 29, 2021
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Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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At Evolution News: Nearly All of Evolution Is Best Explained by Engineering

Denyse O'Leary
September 29, 2021
Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design
Question: If someone proposed Darwinism for the first time today, now that we know all that we know about the hard-to-fathom complexity of life, would people as readily accept it? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 29, 2021
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Will bionic hands ever be as good as natural hands? Researchers are certainly trying…

Denyse O'Leary
September 29, 2021
Human evolution, Intelligent Design
A recent internet-savvy bionic hand, developed by an American neuroscientist and computer engineer, is the most flexible yet, with sensory feedback. But will we ever outdo nature? Why or why not? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 28, 2021
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Atheism, Big Bang, Intelligent Design, theism
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At Mind Matters News: 5. Egnor, Dillahunty dispute the basic causes behind the universe

Denyse O'Leary
September 28, 2021
Atheism, Big Bang, Intelligent Design, theism

Michael Egnor: All right, then what is a singularity? If you’re saying it’s natural, what is it?

Matt Dillahunty: So first of all, you’re not talking to a cosmologist, but the-

Michael Egnor: Then why do you say it’s natural? …

[Things became quite heated at this point.]

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Denyse O'Leary
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September 28, 2021
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Major Neanderthal cave discovery at Gibraltar

Denyse O'Leary
September 28, 2021
Human evolution, Intelligent Design
So far, no burial site has been found in the caves, and Finlayson speculated that digging down from the chamber at the apex of the cave could lead to side chambers and perhaps even a site where the Neanderthals placed their dead. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 28, 2021
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Atheism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, theism
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At Mind Matters News: 4: Egnor now tries to find out what Dillahunty actually knows…

Denyse O'Leary
September 28, 2021
Atheism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, theism
Michael Egnor: What I want to establish before that is that your arguments are not based on any actual knowledge. You don’t know the arguments for God’s existence. So your claim that they’re not true… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 27, 2021
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Cell biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design
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What happens when DNA snaps?

Denyse O'Leary
September 27, 2021
Cell biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design
At Evolution News: "When both DNA strands break (the “double-stranded break” crisis, or DSB), a cell can die. Molecular machines fly into action as the strands flail about, threatening genomic catastrophe. The repair crew has an additional problem: unlike the bridge cable, the DNA strand is made up of a sequence of code that needs to match what was there before the DSB. In a process called homologous recombination, the machinery searches for a template to rebuild the broken sequence." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 27, 2021
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Sabine Hossenfelder asks a curious question: Where did the Big Bang happen?

Denyse O'Leary
September 27, 2021
Big Bang
Hossenfelder: There are two warnings I have to add when it comes to the “Big Bang”. First, I don’t know anybody who actually believes that this singularity is physically real. It probably just means that Einstein’s equations break down and must be replaced by something else. Read More ›