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Denyse O'Leary
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November 27, 2021
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When the Smithsonian does human origins… it becomes a “path to whiteness”

Denyse O'Leary
November 27, 2021
Intelligent Design
Some of us wondered when someone would get around to noticing the gradual Darwinian bleaching during the Ascent of Man… But because, with fossils, the complexion stuff is all imaginary anyway, it should be comparatively easy to fix. But here’s another ball dropped that might not be so easy to fix: “The poster about language fails to engage the serious philosophical problem of abstract reasoning that makes humans exceptional.” Refusing to acknowledge the serious questions around the human mind is intrinsic to naturalism. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 27, 2021
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Intelligent Design
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Finnish author, Rope Kojonen, has two new books out, treating ID sympathetically

Denyse O'Leary
November 27, 2021
Intelligent Design
From the publisher: Kojonen steers a course that avoids common pitfalls such as the problems of the God of the gaps, the problem of natural evil, and the traditional Humean and Darwinian critiques. The resulting deconstruction of the opposition between evolution and design has the potential to transform this important debate. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 26, 2021
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'Junk DNA', Artificial Intelligence, Cell biology, Intelligent Design
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AI helps us see previously unknown cell components

Denyse O'Leary
November 26, 2021
'Junk DNA', Artificial Intelligence, Cell biology, Intelligent Design
The friend who forwarded this story notes, “Even though we didn’t know maybe half of what’s in our cells, we somehow knew that most of the genome is junk?” Darwinism did that, of course. It was the Darwinians who needed the idea that most of the genome is junk. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 25, 2021
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Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Monarch butterflies: “Remarkable” instance of concurrent evolution

Denyse O'Leary
November 25, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design
"It's remarkable that concurrent evolution occurred at the molecular level in all these animals," said UCR evolutionary biologist and study lead Simon "Niels" Groen. "Plant toxins caused evolutionary changes across at least three levels of the food chain!" Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 25, 2021
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Evolution, Intelligent Design
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How did a mammoth tusk from well over 100,000 years ago end up deep in the ocean?

Denyse O'Leary
November 25, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design
Whatever happened, the find shows that a fully terrestrial mammal can get buried in ocean sediment. So, he asks, what about some of the papers that show apparent transitional terrestrial whale fossils that are buried in deeper sea conditions? How do we know that some of these fossils had anything to do with the ocean. No doubt the ocean holds more secrets. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 24, 2021
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Atheism, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
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In time for American Thanksgiving: Stephen Meyer on “the frailty of scientific atheism”

Denyse O'Leary
November 24, 2021
Atheism, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
Materialist atheism is — you read it here first — slowly being destroyed by panpsychism. Panpsychism (everything is conscious) makes more sense. Recall Egnor’s Principle: If your hypothesis is that even electrons are conscious, your hypothesis is likely wrong. But if your hypothesis is that the human mind is an illusion, then… you don’t have a hypothesis. That’s slowly killing "scientific" atheism. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 24, 2021
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Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Paleontologist Gunter Bechly on what the fossil record actually says

Denyse O'Leary
November 24, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design
"There are multiple trade secrets among paleontologists. Chief among them is that Darwin's insistence on gradualism was motivated by his understanding that the dramatic jumps found in the fossil record imply intervention. Darwin hoped that time would reveal his desperately needed transitional fossils. It has not... " Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 24, 2021
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Education, Intelligent Design, Mathematics
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At Mind Matters News: If reality is fundamentally mathematical, why the war on math?

Denyse O'Leary
November 24, 2021
Education, Intelligent Design, Mathematics
Perhaps we all need to recall something: The Iron Ring of the Canadian engineers is forged from the steel of a bridge that collapsed and cost 75 lives. That ring is intended as a warning, not a training manual. It turns out that in the real world, right or wrong answers in math do matter. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 24, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Peer review
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Surprise! Cue Shock! Study finds “bias” in biomedical journals

Denyse O'Leary
November 24, 2021
Intelligent Design, Peer review
The rest of the news release goes on to minimize the problem and soften the blow — not the usual approach in media (for good reason). Lost somewhere in the snow: “Some of these authors, the researchers said, are also on the editorial boards of the journals.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 23, 2021
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horizontal gene transfer, Intelligent Design
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Horizontal gene transfer: Bacteria apparently despise the selfish gene

Denyse O'Leary
November 23, 2021
horizontal gene transfer, Intelligent Design
Researchers: "Cooperation is ubiquitous in bacterial populations. Bacteria produce and share public goods, providing indiscriminate benefits to their neighbors at cost to themselves." It makes sense but it isn’t yer old biology teacher’s evolution. Read More ›