Uncommon Descent Serving The Intelligent Design Community
Year

2021

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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 30, 2021
Categories
Fine tuning
Intelligent Design
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At Mind Matters News: Theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder: Colonizing Mars is a ridiculous idea!

News
October 30, 2021
Fine tuning, Intelligent Design
3
The difficulties inherent in the idea of terraforming Mars are a good argument for the Privileged Planet Hypothesis regarding Earth. Earth is indeed special. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 29, 2021
Categories
Human evolution
Intelligent Design
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Reshuffling of early human names results in new name, Homo bodoensis

News
October 29, 2021
Human evolution, Intelligent Design
3
Researchers: The new name is based on a reassessment of existing fossils from Africa and Eurasia from this time period. Traditionally, these fossils have been variably assigned to either Homo heidelbergensis or Homo rhodesiensis, both of which carried multiple, often contradictory definitions. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 29, 2021
Categories
Culture
Intelligent Design
Naturalism
Science
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An interesting take on how science splutters out amid cries of “Trust the Science!”

News
October 29, 2021
Culture, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Science
3
Curiously, “Trust the Science” echoes across the landscape at about the same time as Cancel Culture has started going after prominent historical scientists. There may be a connection in the sense that the slogan relates to a state of mind in which Correct scientists are identified and given implicit obedience — for now — and Incorrect ones are destroyed. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 29, 2021
Categories
Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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At The Times of London: “Charles Darwin will be next if his great defender is toppled”

News
October 29, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
3
Huh? What? If Huxley (or Darwin) is cancelled, “the practice of science itself no longer matters.” Well, that’s true but for Cancel Culture, that’s a feature, not a bug. It shows their immense power, generally in the robes of victimhood. Has none of these people been paying attention to the war on math and the war on science? Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 28, 2021
Categories
Cell biology
Intelligent Design
Irreducible Complexity
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Scientists’ reaction to ever more of the cell’s complexity in its own environment

News
October 28, 2021
Cell biology, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity
2
At Nature: “I was so overwhelmed by the beauty and the complexity that in the evenings I would just watch them like I would watch a documentary,” recalls Kukulski, a biochemist at the University of Bern, Switzerland." No wonder panpsychism is catching on, among those who are forbidden to think in terms of design. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 28, 2021
Categories
Intelligent Design
Peer review
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Free index to world’s research papers a boon to vast literature searches

News
October 28, 2021
Intelligent Design, Peer review
2
At Nature: "In a project that could unlock the world’s research papers for easier computerized analysis, an American technologist has released online a gigantic index of the words and short phrases contained in more than 100 million journal articles — including many paywalled papers." Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 28, 2021
Categories
Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Racism
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It begins at last… T. H. Huxley, Darwin’s bulldog, about to be Cancelled – other early Darwinists to get the chop soon?

News
October 28, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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W. D. Hamilton, Ronald Fisher, and J. B. S. Haldane are also threatened. We never thought it would happen but it is happening… so fast. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 27, 2021
Categories
Intelligent Design
Plants
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The Big Bang of flowers, 50–100 million years ago

News
October 27, 2021
Intelligent Design, Plants
3
Researchers: "It is not just that angiosperms are species-rich, but many individual angiosperm families show more morphological variety than all other seed plants combined, a distinction that reflects the dynamics of their genomes." An episode we never heard before from the history of life. Is this the new Cambrian Explosion? Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 27, 2021
Categories
Academic Freedom
Intelligent Design
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Useful reflections on the Cancel Culture everyone faces now

News
October 27, 2021
Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design
4
Nick Gillespie asks, "What kind of simulation are we living in where Mein Kampf is easier to purchase than McElligot's Pool?" Oh, that’s easy to answer. It will be as fully an authoritarian culture as the Third Reich but with different authoritarians in charge. And that's the way Cancel Culture supporters want it. Read More ›