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Denyse O'Leary
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November 2, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Medicine, Naturalism
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Jerry Coyne on Cancel Culture’s hit on medical science

Denyse O'Leary
November 2, 2021
Intelligent Design, Medicine, Naturalism
The new terminology would make it hard for most family doctors to talk plainly about typical health issues around, say, obesity or substance abuse very clearly. One doesn’t get the impression from the Woke rhetoric that the patient can decide to make changes that lead to better health. Yet people in all social groups do that every day. Anyway, Coyne is way more useful fighting this than fighting design in nature. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 2, 2021
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Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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Casey Luskin on the unique origins of humanity in the fossil record

Denyse O'Leary
November 2, 2021
Human evolution, Intelligent Design
DI Channel: Does the fossil record prove humans developed from ape-like ancestors? Or does it reveal that humans had a unique origin? In this lecture, geologist Casey Luskin offers some surprising evidence about the fossil history of humanity. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 2, 2021
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Animal minds, Cell biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind
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At Mind Matters News: Neuroscientist: Nervous systems alone do not cause consciousness

Denyse O'Leary
November 2, 2021
Animal minds, Cell biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind
One-celled intelligence aside, it’s unclear how Antonio Damasio’s ladder of consciousness, built on self-balancing and death avoidance, gets us the human mind. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 1, 2021
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Intelligent Design
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A thoughtful critique of Philip Goff’s panpsychism

Denyse O'Leary
November 1, 2021
Intelligent Design
Umar Nasser: I was quite disappointed at his treatment of dualism. I felt like he listed some objections against it but didn't really seek to give counter-objections, as it might hold up too well as compared to his preferred option of panpsychism [everything is conscious to some degree]. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 1, 2021
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Biology, Information, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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Researcher: Biology transcends the limits of computation

Denyse O'Leary
November 1, 2021
Biology, Information, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
Marshall: The present paper uses information theory (the mathematical foundation of our digital age) and Turing machines (computers) to highlight inaccuracies in prevailing reductionist models of biology, and proposes that the correct causation sequence is cognition > code > chemicals. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 1, 2021
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Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Plants
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Researchers: Unusual island life forms may have been genetically pre-coded to vary

Denyse O'Leary
November 1, 2021
Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Plants
"Choi et al., publishing in PNAS, have proposed a very un-Darwinian account of how “spectacular adaptive radiations” occur on oceanic islands such as Hawaii. This has been a “paradox of evolutionary biology,” they admit. Maybe the diversity is an outworking of “ancient polymorphisms” of ancestors with a rich gene pool." As a hypothesis, it has everything going for it but Darwinism. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 1, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Logic and Reason, Philosophy, Science
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At Mind Matters News: Jonathan Bartlett Coming to the Defense of Classical Logic

Denyse O'Leary
November 1, 2021
Intelligent Design, Logic and Reason, Philosophy, Science
Bartlett: It seems odd that classical logic would need defending, but, in modern times, this seems to indeed be the case. Many modern scholars see the need for demoting the place of classical logic and viewing it as an aspect of western cultural imperialism. In reality, classical logic is a gift to civilization. It was created in the classical west, but its benefit is that it belongs to everyone and can be equally wielded by anyone who chooses to do so. Read More ›