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Denyse O'Leary
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November 12, 2021
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Springer Nature retracts 44 “utter nonsense” papers

Denyse O'Leary
November 12, 2021
Intelligent Design, Peer review
As we’ve noted earlier, it’s getting to the point where “Trust the science!” is sounding more ridiculous all the time. It’s like saying “Trust the mountains” or “Trust milk.” It's not a rational response to a lot of what we face just now. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 12, 2021
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Rob Sheldon on lowering the standard for detecting gravitational waves

Denyse O'Leary
November 12, 2021
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
Sheldon: "So to summarize, the absence of triple coincidences is being withheld from the paper, when in fact, it delegitimizes the entire data analysis pipeline. Now we have 4 Gravity wave detectors, and soon one in space. At what point does the lack of a triple coincidence become fatal? What observation can they make that would disprove the existence of gravity waves?" Note: In media work, we say: It takes three to make a trend. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 12, 2021
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Genomics, Intelligent Design
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Tim Standish on those five new alternate genetic codes in bacteria: It’s way more complicated than they are making out.

Denyse O'Leary
November 12, 2021
Genomics, Intelligent Design
Standish: Changing codon meaning isn’t merely a tweak. As one of the authors notes, “It’s just mind-boggling that an organism could survive that.” But he is dead wrong when he says, “Stop codon shifts are considerably less ‘dramatic’”. Changing a stop codon seems significantly more challenging than changing any other codon meaning because the mechanism for stop codon recognition is totally different and involves more than RNA-RNA interactions. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 12, 2021
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Cell biology, Intelligent Design
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James Tour on the practical side of intelligent design

Denyse O'Leary
November 12, 2021
Cell biology, Intelligent Design
Luskin: James Tour hopes that his nanodrills will find a place in future therapies to treat problems like antibiotic resistance and tumors. At the core of his research is using our own intelligence to create therapies that outsmart antibiotic resistance—in other words, to beat evolution with intelligent design. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 11, 2021
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design
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Reflections on Harvard astronomer’s intelligent design without God

Denyse O'Leary
November 11, 2021
Cosmology, Intelligent Design
Stonestreet and Morris: Loeb doesn’t speculate on the identity of our universe’s engineer(s), or the location of the “laboratory” where it came to be. But if his proposal sounds familiar, it’s because it is. Specifically, he’s proposing a form of intelligent design, only one with an infinite number of extra steps. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 11, 2021
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At Mind Matters News: Historian supports new anti-Cancel Culture university

Denyse O'Leary
November 11, 2021
Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design
At COSM 2021, he noted that proposed faculty had spent the last 48 hours dealing with a tidal wave of Twitter hate. So, he said, they are over the target… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 10, 2021
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Genetics, Intelligent Design
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Five more species of bacteria use alternate genetic codes

Denyse O'Leary
November 10, 2021
Genetics, Intelligent Design
At The Scientist: “The genetic code has been set in stone for 3 billion years,” study coauthor Yekaterina Shulgina, a Harvard University graduate student in systems biology, tells The Scientist. “The fact that some organisms have found a way to change it is really fascinating to me. Changing the genetic code requires changing ancient, important molecules like tRNAs that are so fundamental to how biology works.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 10, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
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Neil deGrasse Tyson vs. SteakUmm on the philosophy of science

Denyse O'Leary
November 10, 2021
Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
The thing is, the saucy social media team at Steak-Umm has a point: What does it mean to say that science is “true”? Was all the contradictory nonsense barked at us during the COVID pandemic “true”? That isn’t even possible. Yet all the barkers will insist that whatever stuff they said was “science” and we will, it seems have to believe them on that one. But with what outcome… we shall see. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 10, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism, Neuroscience
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At Mind Matters News: Neuroscientist: Mind is not just brain? That’s career limiting!

Denyse O'Leary
November 10, 2021
Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism, Neuroscience
Neuropsychologist Mark Solms and neurosurgeon Michael Egnor agreed that clinical experience supports a non-materialist view of the mind but that the establishment doesn’t. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 10, 2021
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'Junk DNA', Human evolution, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution
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Evangelical scientists getting it wrong…

Denyse O'Leary
November 10, 2021
'Junk DNA', Human evolution, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution
Casey Luskin: Craig continues to rely upon BioLogos arguments that pseudogenes are “broken” and non-functional junk DNA that we share with apes, thereby demonstrating our common ancestry. Those arguments are increasingly contradicted by evidence presented in highly authoritative scientific papers which find that pseudogenes are commonly functional, and they ought not be assumed to be genetic “junk.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 9, 2021
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At Mind Matters News: The intelligence birds and bees naturally have — and we don’t

Denyse O'Leary
November 9, 2021
Animal minds, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
Richard W. Stevens: You’re aiming to find your childhood friend’s home in a new city. A map helps; GPS is better. Accessing all that previously-acquired mapmakers’ knowledge, employing all of that satellite, radio and computing technology, you’ll probably (although not certainly) reach your goal. Could some “dumb bird” do any better? Way better, actually. Read More ›