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Denyse O'Leary
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November 19, 2021
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Chemist: Biology points to intelligent design

Denyse O'Leary
November 19, 2021
Biology, Information, Intelligent Design
Rummo: Dr. Patrick, always up for a good challenge, wrote on the board (in Spanish) “This sentence wrote itself.” The group of doctors and medical students debated the nonsense of such a statement for several minutes until finally Dr. Patrick erased the phrase This sentence and replaced it with DNA, adding “But you all believe this statement, don’t you?” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 19, 2021
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Eric Holloway at Mind Matters News: Can the “physical world” be wholly physical? Physical at all?

Denyse O'Leary
November 19, 2021
Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Philosophy, Science
The Epicurean philosophy of pure physicalism is attractive to many but the logic of it, followed consistently, refutes itself. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 19, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism, Neuroscience
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At Mind Matters News: Why so many neuroscientists are unreflective materialists

Denyse O'Leary
November 19, 2021
Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism, Neuroscience
In his chapter of a new anthology, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith: Exploring the Ultimate Questions About Life and the Cosmos (2021), neurosurgeon Michael Egnor looks at the growing evidence that the mind is not simply what the brain does and defends a dualist view. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 19, 2021
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
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Professional skeptic Michael Shermer gets it about what’s going wrong at the new Woke Scientific American

Denyse O'Leary
November 19, 2021
Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
It turns out, Michael Shermer has his own sad story about how he got dumped by Scientific American after a long career as a columnist there (since April 2001) — as he tells us in “A case study in how identity politics poisons science.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 18, 2021
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Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Snake with four legs — paleontologists’ dream come true — turns out not to be a snake

Denyse O'Leary
November 18, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design
"There are many evolutionary questions that could be answered by finding a four-legged snake fossil, but only if it is the real deal. The major conclusion of our team is that Tetrapodophis amplectus is not in fact a snake and was misclassified," said [Michael] Caldwell. "Rather, all aspects of its anatomy are consistent with the anatomy observed in a group of extinct marine lizards from the Cretaceous period known as dolichosaurs." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 18, 2021
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At New Atlantis: Manufacturing a science consensus

Denyse O'Leary
November 18, 2021
Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
Mills: Whatever the outcome — whether we learn that the virus jumped to humans from an animal, or that it accidentally escaped from a laboratory, or we remain in a state of ignorance — the lab-leak debacle may become a potent symbol of science’s crisis of legitimacy… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 17, 2021
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Intelligent Design
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At Mind Matters News: How even random numbers show evidence of design

Denyse O'Leary
November 17, 2021
Intelligent Design
Marks: In fact, I have a student right now who is looking at training a neural network to forecast random numbers. If these random numbers are being generated by a deterministic algorithm, then we should be able to discover what the deterministic algorithm is. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 17, 2021
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Neil Thomas’s next book will examine Darwinism as a modern creation myth

Denyse O'Leary
November 17, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy
Thomas: "Here I will make the attempt to drill down even further to the root causes of what appeared to be the Western world’s unprecedented rejection of tried-and-tested philosophers and scientists such as Aristotle, Cicero, Plato, and the physician Galen in a strange capitulation to “out there” philosophic fantasists like Epicurus and his Roman disciple, Lucretius." Darwin came along and made it all sound like… modern science! Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 17, 2021
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At Mind Matters News: Can wholly random processes produce information?

Denyse O'Leary
November 17, 2021
Intelligent Design, Naturalism
Marks: We showed that in all cases, that yes, [design] was required, and that there’s mathematics behind it. The mathematics is based on the No Free Lunch Theorem, which was popularized in the IEEE transactions on evolutionary computing in 1997. There, David Wolpert and W. G. Macready showed something which astonished the area of genetic programming and evolutionary programming. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 16, 2021
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Animal minds, Information, Intelligent Design
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Book excerpt: Navigational genius of insects

Denyse O'Leary
November 16, 2021
Animal minds, Information, Intelligent Design
Eric Cassell: The Goulds call this curious dance “the second most information-rich exchange in the animal world,”5 second only to human language. That is quite a statement considering the communication is by insects with only 950,000 neurons, compared to humans with about eighty-five billion. Read More ›