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Denyse O'Leary
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October 20, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
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At Mind Matters News: What can mapping the whole brain tell us about ourselves ?

Denyse O'Leary
October 20, 2021
Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
Researchers attempting to map the brain must contend with massive complexity at every level, as a report in Nature shows. The proposed whole brain map will shed light on many of these situations. If it doesn’t shed light on some of them, we are probably looking at a new frontier. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 19, 2021
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'Junk DNA'
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And now … Transposable elements (junk DNA) shape the evolution of mammalian development

Denyse O'Leary
October 19, 2021
'Junk DNA'
No wonder people are backing away from the Darwinian staple of junk DNA. We wonder, when will the pop science articles start to appear, claiming that junk DNA was never really an argument used by Darwinian evolutionists in support of their cause and that, in any event, they were right to use such an argument. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 19, 2021
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Climate change, Exoplanets, Intelligent Design
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Here’s more on Canceled prof Dorian Abbot’s talk on climate and exoplanets — Thursday

Denyse O'Leary
October 19, 2021
Climate change, Exoplanets, Intelligent Design
Abbot: "Whether a planet could be habitable is determined primarily by the planet's climate. This lecture will address insights we've gained from studying Earth's climate and how those have been used to make predictions about which exoplanets might be habitable, and how astronomical observations indicate the possibility of new climatic regimes not found on modern Earth…" [The Woke are, of course, welcome to scream, assault passersby, and torch cars and buildings in the comfort of their own Zoom meeting at the same time.] Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 19, 2021
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Big Bang
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Physicist Brian Miller reflects on claims that the universe had no beginning

Denyse O'Leary
October 19, 2021
Big Bang
Miller: Sutter asserts that Bento and Zalel’s article offers a credible response against the evidence for a cosmic beginning. Yet this claim is only based on what might be possible in the realm of the imagination. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 19, 2021
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Intelligent Design
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Laszlo Bencze responds to the view that evil is the absence of good

Denyse O'Leary
October 19, 2021
Intelligent Design
Bencze: I have found that all people, even diehard progressives,agree that there are some things that are prohibited. They might balk at homophobia. Surely that can’t be permitted? ... So, if not all things are permitted, then, logically speaking, god must exist. In this way the existence of evil points to god. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 19, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Naturalism, theism
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Egnor vs. Dillahunty: 11. Is evil in the world simply the absence of good?

Denyse O'Leary
October 19, 2021
Intelligent Design, Naturalism, theism
Egnor: "The Thomistic understanding of evil is that it’s an absence of good. It’s not a thing that exist independently in itself. It’s a deficit of goodness. God’s creation necessarily fall short of goodness because if he created something perfectly good, He would just be creating himself. " Read More ›
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Granville Sewell
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October 19, 2021
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Intelligent Design

Science as a set-up

Granville Sewell
October 19, 2021
Intelligent Design

My 2015 book “In the Beginning and Other Essays on Intelligent Design” includes a couple of chapters dealing with the “compensation” argument (anything can happen in an open system without violating the second law of thermodynamics), a chapter on the big bang, which includes the differential equation modeling the expansion of the universe that shows a singularity in the finite past, a chapter on the fine tuning of the laws of physics, and a chapter on quantum mechanics. The chapter on quantum mechanics shows that not only is human behavior not completely determined by physics, but even the individual particles of physics have a sort of “free will” of their own, even their behavior is not completely predictable, even in Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
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October 18, 2021
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Christian Darwinism, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution
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John West on the tragedy of Francis Collins’s model of science and faith

Denyse O'Leary
October 18, 2021
Christian Darwinism, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution
If Collins stands for “theistic evolution,” reading about it has made some of us feel better about atheistic evolution. At least the atheistic evolutionists don’t pretend that they think human beings have intrinsic value. You know where you are with them. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 17, 2021
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Big Bang, Intelligent Design
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Is Ethan Siegel’s Big Bang and Parallel Universes nonsense a response to Steve Meyer?

Denyse O'Leary
October 17, 2021
Big Bang, Intelligent Design
Now that Miller mentions it, several other anti-Big Bang tales have appeared recently. Perhaps the reason that all these stories seem extra-silly is that the authors are rattled. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 17, 2021
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Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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Scripture scholar John Oswalt weighs in critically on William Lane Craig’s Historical Adam

Denyse O'Leary
October 17, 2021
Human evolution, Intelligent Design
We are closing in on an important fact here: Craig’s Historical Adam is the true ancestor of the Historical Jesus. Now it all begins to make sense. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 17, 2021
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Darwinism
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Hank Hanegraff interviews Neil Thomas – a skeptic who is skeptical of Darwin

Denyse O'Leary
October 17, 2021
Darwinism
From podcast info: As he studied the work of Darwin’s defenders, he found himself encountering tactics eerily similar to the methods of political brainwashing he had studied as a scholar. Thomas felt impelled to write a book as a sort of warning call to humanity: “Beware! You have been fooled!” Read More ›