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Year

2021

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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 22, 2021
Categories
Origin Of Life
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Design theorist Eric Anderson on claims for a self-replicating machine

News
October 22, 2021
Origin Of Life
2
Anderson: "The Cornell molecubes didn’t build themselves. Instead, they were built by intelligent researchers using other tools and systems — by a separate “factory” so to speak — that was, in turn, built by other tools and systems, and so on. Yet beyond the observation of this uncomfortable regress, there are several additional instructive issues we need to examine if we are to really appreciate what self-replication entails." Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 22, 2021
Categories
Academic Freedom
Intelligent Design
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Darwinian evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne learns s thing or three about censorship – when he’s not doling it out

News
October 22, 2021
Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design
4
The explanation for Coyne’s sudden support for academic freedom might be fairly simple: He thought that Cancel Culture would only ever be deployed against people who think that nature shows evidence of design. He never expected it to come for people HE values. Read More ›
Type
post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 21, 2021
Categories
'Junk DNA'
Intelligent Design

Is it the “junk DNA” that makes us human?

News
October 21, 2021
'Junk DNA', Intelligent Design
4
Researchers: "This suggests that the basis for the human brain's evolution are genetic mechanisms that are probably a lot more complex than previously thought, as it was supposed that the answer was in those two per cent of the genetic DNA. Our results indicate that what has been significant for the brain's development is instead perhaps hidden in the overlooked 98 per cent, which appears to be important. This is a surprising finding." Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 21, 2021
Categories
Intelligent Design
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At Cosmos Magazine: Why viruses are considered non-living

News
October 21, 2021
Intelligent Design
2
It doesn’t help settle the ongoing debate that there is no single definition of life. Or that giant viruses like the mimivirus blur the line. Or that viruses share some genetics with host cells. Also, we often hear about the “strategies” of viruses. Which raises the question: If information had a physical form, would it be like viruses? Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 21, 2021
Categories
Human evolution
Intelligent Design
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Oldest human-like footprints are 2.5 million years older than the ones attributed to “Lucy”

News
October 21, 2021
Human evolution, Intelligent Design
1
Re footprints in Crete: “The tracks are almost 2.5 million years older than the tracks attributed to Australopithecus afarensis (Lucy) from Laetoli in Tanzania,” says study co-author Uwe Kirscher, an expert on paleogeography at the University of Tübingen, in a statement. [Crete?!] Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 21, 2021
Categories
extinction
Intelligent Design
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New findings on the devolution of tuskless elephants

News
October 21, 2021
extinction, Intelligent Design
2
Why were two-thirds of the tuskless babies females? "They also suspected that the relevant gene was dominant – meaning that a female needs only one altered gene to become tuskless — and that when passed to male embryos, it may short-circuit their development." Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 20, 2021
Categories
Intelligent Design
Mind
Neuroscience
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At Mind Matters News: What can mapping the whole brain tell us about ourselves ?

News
October 20, 2021
Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
3
Researchers attempting to map the brain must contend with massive complexity at every level, as a report in Nature shows. The proposed whole brain map will shed light on many of these situations. If it doesn’t shed light on some of them, we are probably looking at a new frontier. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 19, 2021
Categories
'Junk DNA'
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And now … Transposable elements (junk DNA) shape the evolution of mammalian development

News
October 19, 2021
'Junk DNA'
3
No wonder people are backing away from the Darwinian staple of junk DNA. We wonder, when will the pop science articles start to appear, claiming that junk DNA was never really an argument used by Darwinian evolutionists in support of their cause and that, in any event, they were right to use such an argument. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 19, 2021
Categories
Climate change
Exoplanets
Intelligent Design
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Here’s more on Canceled prof Dorian Abbot’s talk on climate and exoplanets — Thursday

News
October 19, 2021
Climate change, Exoplanets, Intelligent Design
2
Abbot: "Whether a planet could be habitable is determined primarily by the planet's climate. This lecture will address insights we've gained from studying Earth's climate and how those have been used to make predictions about which exoplanets might be habitable, and how astronomical observations indicate the possibility of new climatic regimes not found on modern Earth…" [The Woke are, of course, welcome to scream, assault passersby, and torch cars and buildings in the comfort of their own Zoom meeting at the same time.] Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 19, 2021
Categories
Big Bang
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Physicist Brian Miller reflects on claims that the universe had no beginning

News
October 19, 2021
Big Bang
2
Miller: Sutter asserts that Bento and Zalel’s article offers a credible response against the evidence for a cosmic beginning. Yet this claim is only based on what might be possible in the realm of the imagination. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 19, 2021
Categories
Intelligent Design
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Laszlo Bencze responds to the view that evil is the absence of good

News
October 19, 2021
Intelligent Design
2
Bencze: I have found that all people, even diehard progressives,agree that there are some things that are prohibited. They might balk at homophobia. Surely that can’t be permitted? ... So, if not all things are permitted, then, logically speaking, god must exist. In this way the existence of evil points to god. Read More ›