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Denyse O'Leary
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November 16, 2021
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Information, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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Rob Sheldon on life from the lab: “Information first” is essential

Denyse O'Leary
November 16, 2021
Information, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
Information first means it can never be random, just as OOL in the lab is not random. But that doesn't mean that info-first cannot produce OOL. I've written a paper on the info-first OOL problem. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 16, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Neuroscience
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Human neurons are strangely more efficient than animal ones

Denyse O'Leary
November 16, 2021
Intelligent Design, Neuroscience
In the most extensive study of its kind, nine other [than human] mammals were studied. Larger mammals have larger neurons. And in every case but one, they found that “as the size of neurons increases, the density of channels found in the neurons also increases.” Except in humans, it was the reverse. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 15, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
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Would it be better if more scientists studied philosophy?

Denyse O'Leary
November 15, 2021
Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
Lehewych: "Consider public health messaging during the pandemic, which consisted of a pattern of revelation and back-peddling. Worse, this pattern wasn’t even cohesive among scientists and medical experts: different experts in the same fields were simultaneously saying things about the pandemic that were contradictory and inconsistent. This only served to confuse the public and aggravate hyperpartisanship." He suggests that scientists study philosophy so as to avoid sounding like “sanctimonious know-it-alls.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 15, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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Why isn’t life being synthesized in a laboratory?

Denyse O'Leary
November 15, 2021
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
Synthesis of life in a laboratory is intelligent design. But using intelligent design only means we’ve left the world of fantasy (“it all just sort of happened a long time ago… ”). Here’s an example of a typical real problem: Living cells cannot reach equilibrium because their metabolisms would stop. They must dance till the music stops. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 15, 2021
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Human evolution, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution
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Casey Luskin: The mytho-history of Adam, Eve, and William Lane Craig

Denyse O'Leary
November 15, 2021
Human evolution, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution
Long a defender of orthodoxy, Craig seems to want to prune the orthodoxies he is expected to defend. But the pruning process in which he is engaged can never really stop. The “sensible God” is most likely the one looking back at us from our medicine cabinet mirrors. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 15, 2021
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Peer review
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Isn’t cheating in science journals just part of survival of the fittest?

Denyse O'Leary
November 15, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Peer review
David Coppedge: Nature believes that evolutionary arms races emerge from time to time, like bees against wasps, butterflies against birds, or moths against bats. Those symbioses are not right or wrong. They just are. Why are not predatory journals examples of the same phenomenon? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 14, 2021
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Extraterrestrial life, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design
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At Mind Matters News: Astronomer: We can’t just assume countless Earths out there

Denyse O'Leary
November 14, 2021
Extraterrestrial life, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design
Marcelo Gleiser notes that the starting point of the Mediocrity Principle assumes countless Earths. That’s not a conclusion from evidence. It’s bad logic. Read More ›
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Barry Arrington
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November 14, 2021
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Intelligent Design

It Was Predicted

Barry Arrington
November 14, 2021
Intelligent Design

We now have the highest inflation in 30 years. This was entirely predictable. In fact, I predicted it. See my post from April 20, 2020. Hang on. We are just getting started. The new “infrastructure” bill that just passed is the monetary equivalent of pouring gasoline in a dumpster that is already on fire. You go from this: To this: Believe me. I am not claiming any special insight. My conclusions were a combination of paying attention and making common sense deductions from observations. If you see someone opening the spigot on a fire hydrant, you are not a genius if you predict the street is going to get really wet. If the government says they are going to dump Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
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November 13, 2021
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Cell biology, Intelligent Design
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Microorganisms defy expectations, produce elemental carbon

Denyse O'Leary
November 13, 2021
Cell biology, Intelligent Design
At Eurekalert: “We never thought that amorphous carbon could be produced by living organisms because of the normally extreme chemical reactions that are needed to form it,” said Robert White, an emeritus professor of biochemistry in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. “This is the first report of amorphous carbon being produced by any organism on Earth, and we are very interested in the possible implications it may have for the carbon cycle.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 13, 2021
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William Lane Craig on Adam and Eve as less intelligent than us

Denyse O'Leary
November 13, 2021
Human evolution, Intelligent Design
Whatever else Craig’s view is, as Luskin notes, it is a far cry from the Scriptural traditional assumption that the unfallen Adam and Eve were our betters and that we have all deteriorated as a result of sin. Adopting Craig’s view is bound to have worldview consequences. Read More ›