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Denyse O'Leary
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October 6, 2021
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Term “junk DNA” critiqued at journal. But now remember the history!

Denyse O'Leary
October 6, 2021
'Junk DNA', Darwinism, Intelligent Design
“The days of ‘junk DNA’ are over…”? So the house is clearly supporting this move away from the Darwinian position. Oh yes, let’s not forget that “junk DNA” was very much a Darwinian position. Most or all of the Darwinian Bigs signed onto junk DNA as part of their thesis about the unguided nature of life. The big question will doubtless be put off for now: Why does it only count if Darwinian predictions are right but never if they are wrong? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 6, 2021
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Ethics, Intelligent Design, theism, worldview
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Debate: Michael Egnor vs. Matt Dillahunty — now the 2nd oldest question: If God exists, why evil?

Denyse O'Leary
October 6, 2021
Ethics, Intelligent Design, theism, worldview
In the debate between Christian neurosurgeon Michael Egnor and atheist broadcaster Matt Dillahunty, the question of raping a baby was bound to arise - with telling results. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 5, 2021
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theistic evolution
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At Evolution News and Science Today: The Appalling Moral Failure of Francis Collins

Denyse O'Leary
October 5, 2021
theistic evolution
John G. West: The disclosures about the experiments followed Collins’s repeal earlier this year of restrictions on the use of aborted fetal tissue in NIH-funded research… researchers also sliced off skin from the scalp of the aborted babies and then grafted the fetal skin onto the mice. In the words of the scientists: “Full-thickness human fetal skin was processed via removal of excess fat tissues attached to the subcutaneous layer of the skin, then engrafted over the rib cage, where the mouse skin was previously excised.” The body parts used for these experiments were harvested from aborted human fetuses with a gestational age of 18-20 weeks. By that age, an unborn baby has brain waves and a beating heart. He can hear sounds and move his limbs and eyes ... Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 5, 2021
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
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Michael Egnor: The atheists’ Divine Hiddenness argument against God’s existence = nonsense

Denyse O'Leary
October 5, 2021
Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
Egnor: The Divine Hiddenness argument is nonsensical because divine hiddenness is inherent in the nature of the Creator and the creature, as noted above. Furthermore, the atheist Divine Hiddenness argument seems to imply a bizarre inference: if the disbelief of even one person in the world disproves the existence of God, then it stands to reason that the belief in God by that person — that one holdout — would prove His existence. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 5, 2021
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Vox on why you can’t trust Big Science

Denyse O'Leary
October 5, 2021
Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
If you “trust” these science honchoes at all after this episode… well, COVID-19 is not as serious a threat as wilful stupidity. But going forward, another question looms: How much of “settled science” that has never been subjected to this type of careful outside scrutiny would likewise collapse? What ELSE don’t we know and what difference would it make in various science arenas? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 4, 2021
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Fine tuning, Intelligent Design
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At Mind Matters News: Weak Anthropic Principle? Not an explanation but a tautology!

Denyse O'Leary
October 4, 2021
Fine tuning, Intelligent Design
Egnor: The Weak Anthropic Principle, which is widely held by atheists, is meaningless: Only in a universe that permits the existence of intelligent beings can intelligent beings exist — i.e., only a universe with intelligent beings can be a universe with intelligent beings. The Weak Anthropic Principle is a tautology. And a tautology is not an explanation. It’s merely a sentence in which the predicate is the same as the subject. It’s meaningless. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 4, 2021
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
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At Mind Matters News: Our Universe Survived a Firing Squad and It’s Just an Accident?

Denyse O'Leary
October 4, 2021
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
Ola Hössjer: According to the Weak Anthropic Principle, we should not be surprised to live in a universe that harbors life. But I should add that, in our paper, "Cosmological Tuning Fine or Coarse?," we compute or give an upper bound for the probability of a randomly generated universe to have a certain constant of nature, ending up within its life-permitting interval. We take the Weak Anthropic Principle into account — and still we come up with small probabilities for certain constant of natures or certain ratios or constants of nature. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 3, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Media
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Casey Luskin will be on Coast to Coast tonight

Denyse O'Leary
October 3, 2021
Intelligent Design, Media
From the show's description: He contends that Darwin-doubting scientists are hounded out of academia, schools refuse to acknowledge peer-reviewed science that contradicts the standard evolutionary paradigm, and Big Tech obscures accurate information about intelligent design. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 3, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science, theism
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Michael Egnor: Science can and does point to God’s existence

Denyse O'Leary
October 3, 2021
Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science, theism
Egnor: Note that science studies natural effects and does not and cannot specify whether the causes must be natural or supernatural. To constrain science to the search for natural causes is to introduce inherent error into scientific investigation — the error is that if supernatural causes exist, then science would be blind to them and therefore would not be good science. If we are to understand natural effects, we must be open to all kinds of causes, including causes that transcend nature. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 3, 2021
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Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life, Plants
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Another issue re the origin of plants between 3.4 and 2.9 billion years ago…

Denyse O'Leary
October 3, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life, Plants
Timothy Standish: I couldn’t help but notice that the time photosynthesis is supposed to have evolved doesn’t line up with either the time when oxygen is supposed to have become an important element in the atmosphere, half a billion years later, or the time that fixed carbon begins showing up in the fossil record, which is much earlier, possibly over half a billion years. Read More ›