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2021

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 8, 2021
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Animal minds
Intelligent Design
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At Mind Matters News: Does a chimp mom who carries a dead baby around understand death?

News
October 8, 2021
Animal minds, Intelligent Design
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The point about death — as a human understands it — is that the deceased loved one is never coming back. That is why human mothers do not carry a dead baby around for months. The primates’ behavior definitely demonstrates grief in the sense of attachment but also makes clear that they don’t understand what death means. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 8, 2021
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'Junk DNA'
Intelligent Design
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Jonathan Wells reflects on the importance of “junk DNA” to Francis Collins’ Language of God

News
October 8, 2021
'Junk DNA', Intelligent Design
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Wells: It’s not a moral failure to be mistaken about evidence that supposedly supports Darwinian evolution. But the title of Collins’s Language of God was deceptive from the start. And Collins has looked the other way as it has continued to deceive. I consider this one more moral failure of Francis Collins. Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 7, 2021
Categories
Cosmology
Design inference
Intelligent Design
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Preprint paper by Nobel Prize winner on mind-like processes underlying the order in nature

News
October 7, 2021
Cosmology, Design inference, Intelligent Design
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Josephson: David Bohm suggested that some kind of implicate order underlies the manifest order observed in physical systems, while others have suggested that some kind of mind-like process underlies this order. In the following a more explicit picture is proposed, based on the existence of parallels between spontaneously fluctuating equilibrium states and life processes. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 7, 2021
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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Robert Shedinger’s recent podcast on Darwinism vs. design

News
October 7, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
2
Luther College prof Robert F. Shedinger has two books, Jesus and Jihad: Reclaiming the Prophetic Heart of Christianity and Islam and The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms: Darwinian Biology's Grand Narrative of Triumph and the Subversion of Religion. It appears that, although the intention was to talk about both books, the design controversy stole the show. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 7, 2021
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Animal minds
Intelligent Design
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Rob Sheldon: Migrating birds’ mysterious quantum sense is “spooky”

News
October 7, 2021
Animal minds, Intelligent Design
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Sheldon: "Since this sensing is happening at the level of electron spins and excitation, it is an inherently QM [quantum mechanical] effect, hence the title of the article." The spooky part is how finely tuned the bird's sensitivity is: "Packing a $10,000 lock-in amplifier into a 2 micron cell." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 7, 2021
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'Junk DNA'
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Casey Luskin reflects on the “official” demise of the term “junk DNA”

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October 7, 2021
'Junk DNA'
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Luskin: “these authors remember a day when ‘the common doctrine was that the nonprotein coding part of eukaryotic genome’ consisted of ‘“useless sequences, often organized in repetitive elements.’” Good. Keep the history alive. It won’t be very long before Darwinians start claiming that they never thought it was junk. Then they will start insinuating that WE said it was junk. No, that doesn’t make any sense but if the history is forgotten, it doesn’t need to either. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 6, 2021
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'Junk DNA'
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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Term “junk DNA” critiqued at journal. But now remember the history!

News
October 6, 2021
'Junk DNA', Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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“The days of ‘junk DNA’ are over…”? So the house is clearly supporting this move away from the Darwinian position. Oh yes, let’s not forget that “junk DNA” was very much a Darwinian position. Most or all of the Darwinian Bigs signed onto junk DNA as part of their thesis about the unguided nature of life. The big question will doubtless be put off for now: Why does it only count if Darwinian predictions are right but never if they are wrong? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 6, 2021
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Ethics
Intelligent Design
theism
worldview
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Debate: Michael Egnor vs. Matt Dillahunty — now the 2nd oldest question: If God exists, why evil?

News
October 6, 2021
Ethics, Intelligent Design, theism, worldview
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In the debate between Christian neurosurgeon Michael Egnor and atheist broadcaster Matt Dillahunty, the question of raping a baby was bound to arise - with telling results. Read More ›
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post
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 5, 2021
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theistic evolution
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At Evolution News and Science Today: The Appalling Moral Failure of Francis Collins

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October 5, 2021
theistic evolution
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John G. West: The disclosures about the experiments followed Collins’s repeal earlier this year of restrictions on the use of aborted fetal tissue in NIH-funded research… researchers also sliced off skin from the scalp of the aborted babies and then grafted the fetal skin onto the mice. In the words of the scientists: “Full-thickness human fetal skin was processed via removal of excess fat tissues attached to the subcutaneous layer of the skin, then engrafted over the rib cage, where the mouse skin was previously excised.” The body parts used for these experiments were harvested from aborted human fetuses with a gestational age of 18-20 weeks. By that age, an unborn baby has brain waves and a beating heart. He can hear sounds and move his limbs and eyes ... Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 5, 2021
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Culture
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Science
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Michael Egnor: The atheists’ Divine Hiddenness argument against God’s existence = nonsense

News
October 5, 2021
Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
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Egnor: The Divine Hiddenness argument is nonsensical because divine hiddenness is inherent in the nature of the Creator and the creature, as noted above. Furthermore, the atheist Divine Hiddenness argument seems to imply a bizarre inference: if the disbelief of even one person in the world disproves the existence of God, then it stands to reason that the belief in God by that person — that one holdout — would prove His existence. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 5, 2021
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Culture
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Science
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Vox on why you can’t trust Big Science

News
October 5, 2021
Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
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If you “trust” these science honchoes at all after this episode… well, COVID-19 is not as serious a threat as wilful stupidity. But going forward, another question looms: How much of “settled science” that has never been subjected to this type of careful outside scrutiny would likewise collapse? What ELSE don’t we know and what difference would it make in various science arenas? Read More ›