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Denyse O'Leary
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November 30, 2021
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Two new papers support Michael Behe’s thesis in Darwin Devolves

Denyse O'Leary
November 30, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
The thesis is that much evolution consists in dumping rather than adding complexity. Details, details. Subtraction is just addition with minus numbers, right? ;) Would it be legal to teach Darwin Devolves in a U.S. school system? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 30, 2021
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Animal minds, Intelligent Design
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At Mind Matters News: For Ants, Building a Bridge Is No “Simple” Task

Denyse O'Leary
November 30, 2021
Animal minds, Intelligent Design
Richard Stevens: Cassell shows that animal algorithms must be designed top-down starting with a goal, fashioning the data input sensors, developing the necessary procedures, and implementing them in software to direct hardware. Yet the Quanta Magazine piece reported that Panamanian army ants’ procedures for building bridges of living ants is accomplished using a “simple algorithm.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 30, 2021
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Cell biology, Intelligent Design
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Ars Technica slams claims re living, reproducing robots

Denyse O'Leary
November 30, 2021
Cell biology, Intelligent Design
At Ars Technica: But the paper buried this in language that, at best, is overhyped, and the researchers aren't even being technically accurate when describing this work to the press. At a time when trust in science seems to be at an all-time low, this isn't likely to be helpful. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 29, 2021
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Sabine Hossenfelder explains why antimatter doesn’t fall up

Denyse O'Leary
November 29, 2021
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
Hossenfelder: Inside a neutron and proton there aren’t just three quarks. There’s really a soup of particles that holds the quarks together, and some of the particles in the soup are anti-particles. Why don’t those anti-particles annihilate? They do. They are created and annihilate all the time. We therefore call them “virtual particles.” But they still make a substantial contribution to the gravitational mass of neutrons and protons. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 29, 2021
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Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
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At Mind Matters News: Why panpsychism is starting to push out naturalism

Denyse O'Leary
November 29, 2021
Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
Panpsychism eliminates the crudities of Darwinism. For example, if consciousness is assumed to be a natural development in the most complex life forms, human consciousness would have happened, whether it improved survival or not. Darwinian controversies on the topic become pointless or anyway, much less significant. Perhaps that’s why a classical Darwinian, who needs to see human consciousness as a simple but controversial accident, views panpsychism with hostility. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 28, 2021
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Christian Darwinism, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution
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Christian Darwinists must now backtrack re Adam and Eve

Denyse O'Leary
November 28, 2021
Christian Darwinism, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution
Casey Luskin: "When I was reading the rhetoric used by evangelical elites who advocated abandoning a historical Adam and Eve, I was struck by how much of it seemed driven by fear — fear of looking foolish before the world because you challenged evolution and were shown to be wrong." Maybe being right, sticking with their tradition, would have been a bigger problem for them. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 28, 2021
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Part 2 of New introduction to intelligent design: Recognizing Design Part 2

Denyse O'Leary
November 28, 2021
Education, Intelligent Design
In Part 1, we look at evidence that the universe had a beginning, therefore it had a Beginner – a Creator. We look more deeply at the information in DNA that makes life possible. Part 2 applies the core concepts of irreducible complexity and functional coherence to one of the most important functions in each cell - energy production. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 28, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience, Physics
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At Mind Matters News: Can quantum physics, neuroscience merge as quantum consciousness?

Denyse O'Leary
November 28, 2021
Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience, Physics
The problem is, if we assume that “the mind is nothing more than the brain,” there may be nothing we can discover about how it works. Gleiser wishes we could prove that that’s wrong but he can’t. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 27, 2021
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Convergent evolution, Exoplanets, Intelligent Design
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At Mind Matters News: Exoplanets: The same laws of physics means similar life forms

Denyse O'Leary
November 27, 2021
Convergent evolution, Exoplanets, Intelligent Design
Even on Earth, life forms of widely differing ancestry, arrive at the same solutions to physics problems, leading scientists note. On Simon Conway Morris's view, life forms that fly on exoplanets will do what birds, bats, and insects do here, they say. Intelligent species may even look roughly like us. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 27, 2021
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Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design
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Good news: Jordan Peterson is Uncanceled at Cambridge U

Denyse O'Leary
November 27, 2021
Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design
Cambridge philosophy prof, Arif Ahmed, fills us in. If your alma mater isn’t following Cambridge's lead, stop giving. We don’t need finishing schools for censorious ignoramuses and dunces, often on the verge of violence. Read More ›