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2021

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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 26, 2021
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Intelligent Design
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Insect parasite replaces fish’s tongue — and it all works

News
October 26, 2021
Intelligent Design
2
The tongue-eating louse is the only known life form to completely replace an organ in another animal. The takehome point is that devolution (shedding independent characteristics in order to survive, perhaps symbiotically) leads the history of life forms down some strange paths. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 26, 2021
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Natural selection
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At Evolution News and Science Today: Why C. S. Lewis doubted the creative power of natural selection

News
October 26, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Natural selection
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West: "according to Lewis, Darwin’s theory explains how a species can change over time by losing functional features it already has. Suffice to say, this is not the key thing the modern biological theory of evolution purports to explain." Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 25, 2021
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Climate change
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Peer review
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Science writer asks: Why are medical journals full of fashionable nonsense?

News
October 25, 2021
Climate change, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Peer review
2
Alex Berezow: The point is that hopping aboard a political bandwagon is good for grabbing attention — and subsequently, funding. We are witnessing a similar phenomenon with respect to climate change. No matter how extraneous a topic, researchers try to tie it to climate change. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 25, 2021
Categories
Genetics
Human evolution
Intelligent Design
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Some at-your-fingertips stats on human–chimp similarity

News
October 25, 2021
Genetics, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
3
Casey Luskin: "many non-coding sequences are highly dissimilar, and there are sequences of the human and chimp genomes that are so different that they can’t be aligned for comparison. For example, there are some parts of our genome, such as the human y chromosome, that are radically different from the chimp genome." Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 25, 2021
Categories
Extraterrestrial life
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Mind
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At Mind Matters News, some fun: Would ET intelligences understand the 1974 Arecibo Message?

News
October 25, 2021
Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Mind
3
In early, easily-mocked sci fi, a little green man points his raygun at an unsuspecting passerby and barks “Take me to your leader.” Fast forward: If the little green man didn’t have the technology to figure out who the leader was before landing, he certainly wouldn’t have the technology to get here. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 25, 2021
Categories
Big Bang
Extraterrestrial life
Intelligent Design
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Rob Sheldon on the current trend to non-theist intelligent design (ID) theory

News
October 25, 2021
Big Bang, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
4
When some people wrote privately to protest that this ET>Big Bang stuff is all just one space bunny too far down the cosmic path, I (O’Leary for News) pointed out in response that Neil deGrasse Tyson (here), Martin Rees (here), and Elon Musk (here) have also suggested that very thing. Well, now theoretical physicist Rob Sheldon writes to offer some thoughts on the new-found popularity. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 25, 2021
Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Jonathan Witt: Why is common descent a better explanation for the history of life than common design?

News
October 25, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design
4
It’s one of those questions that many never ask because they are so used to hearing the Correct Answer that no other answers surface. And they would not, of course, know objections to the Correct Answer. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 24, 2021
Categories
Evolutionary psychology
Intelligent Design
Religion
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At Mind Matters News: Compassion and religion: Darwin’s unscratchable itches

News
October 24, 2021
Evolutionary psychology, Intelligent Design, Religion
3
If one’s research is in a hole as deep as evolutionary psychology is when accounting for compassion, why not stop digging? Stop digging? The hole evolutionary psychologists are digging IS the enterprise. Any motive that didn’t merely spread selfish genes would be invisible to them. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 24, 2021
Categories
Ethics
Intelligent Design
Naturalism
theistic evolution
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Did Francis Collins or Anthony Fauci have any role in the slow torture death of beagle puppies in Tunisia?

News
October 24, 2021
Ethics, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, theistic evolution
4
As now alleged? Some US legislators want answers. We’ve been warning for some time that “Trust the Science” is going to take a huge — and well-deserved — beating among intelligent people. This’ll help that along. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 24, 2021
Categories
Academic Freedom
Culture
Darwinism
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Berkeley scientist and center director resigns over MIT’s deplatforming of exoplanet scientist

News
October 24, 2021
Academic Freedom, Culture, Darwinism
2
Note how little difference facts of science make in these matters — whether Abbot has anything to say that contributes to our knowledge does not matter of the Woke are displeased. Darwinism was the original Wokeness in science — immune to fact-based critique. The people who thought that that didn’t concern them are now formally wrong. It’s everywhere now. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 23, 2021
Categories
Fine tuning
Intelligent Design
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Sabine Hossenfelder: No way to tell if the universe was fine-tuned for us — Rob Sheldon partially agrees

News
October 23, 2021
Fine tuning, Intelligent Design
4
Sheldon: Even though I agree with Sabine about the fine tuning argument, I disagree strongly with her about the significance of the design we see in the world. "It just is" is not an explanation. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 23, 2021
Categories
Culture
Darwinism
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Science
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At Evolution News: Three stunners challenge traditional Darwinism

News
October 23, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Science
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At ENST: Scientists at Flinders University in Australia found that our DNA spreads up to a meter around us without even touching anything. We’re leaving breadcrumbs of genetic code everywhere we go! Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 23, 2021
Categories
Fine tuning
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
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Physicist Marcelo Gleiser: Beauty in the universe is an “illusory consequence of our human mathematics”

News
October 23, 2021
Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Mathematics
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So what, exactly, is this “false and illusory” view of our universe? Is this short essay another veiled “correct” assault on the fact of the fine-tuning of the universe for life? There seems to be a lot of that out there these days. Orthodox science is now in a deadly conflict with facts… There can only be one outcome. Read More ›