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2021

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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 27, 2021
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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Materialism hangs on to science now — not by evidence but by politics

News
August 27, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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A quibble with Brian Miller’s analysis above: It’s not “philosophy” as such that fronts Darwin's stranglehold on the discussion of evolution. It’s the power to cause career ruin. That’s the stick end of politics, not of philosophy. Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 27, 2021
Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Researchers: Blind mouse pups prepared for sight

News
August 27, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design
2
Researcher: “I love this paper. It blew my mind,” says David Berson, who studies the visual system at Brown University and was not involved in the research. “What it implies is that evolution has built a visual system that can simulate the patterns of activity that it will see later when it’s fully mature and the eyes are open, and that [the simulated pattern] in turn shapes the development of the nervous system in a way that makes it better adapted to seeing those patterns. . . . That’s staggering.” Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 25, 2021
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Intelligent Design
Medicine
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Medical science: “Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise?”

News
August 25, 2021
Intelligent Design, Medicine
2
Michael Cook: The gold standard for fraud is a Japanese researcher in anaesthetics, Yoshitaka Fujii, of Toho University. By the time he came unstuck about 10 years ago, he had published around 200 articles – and 183 of them have been retracted because he had falsified the data. “If someone can publish 183 fabricated trials,” said Roberts, “the problem is not with him, the problem is with the system.” Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 24, 2021
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Intelligent Design
Medicine
Naturalism
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At Mind Matters News: Epilepsy: If you follow the science, materialism is dead

News
August 24, 2021
Intelligent Design, Medicine, Naturalism
5
Egnor: on the issue of intellectual seizures, the fact that there has not been a single seizure in recorded medical history out of 250 million seizures, a quarter of a billion seizures, that has evoked abstract intellectual content, Maybe the next one will, but I’m not going to bet on it… Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 24, 2021
Categories
Animal minds
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience
stasis
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At Mind Matters News: Do brains really evolve? The horseshoe crab’s brain didn’t

News
August 24, 2021
Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience, stasis
2
At Science News: "The preserved central nervous system lends insight into the ancient crab’s behavior, the researchers say. Because the fossil brain is so similar to the brains of modern horseshoe crabs, Bicknell says, it’s safe to say the ancient animal’s walking, breathing and even feeding habits were probably similar to horseshoe crabs’ today, including eating with their legs. " Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 24, 2021
Categories
Astronomy
Intelligent Design
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Pluto is still planet in the eyes of many

News
August 24, 2021
Astronomy, Intelligent Design
2
Grossman: "... since 2006, we’ve learned that Pluto has an atmosphere and maybe even clouds. It has mountains made of water ice, fields of frozen nitrogen, methane snow–capped peaks, and dunes and volcanoes. “It’s a dynamic, complex world unlike any other orbiting the sun,” journalist Christopher Crockett wrote in Science News in 2015 when NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 24, 2021
Categories
'Junk DNA'
Intelligent Design
speciation
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Researchers: “Junk DNA” plays a key role in speciation

News
August 24, 2021
'Junk DNA', Intelligent Design, speciation
2
At Phys.org: When the researchers deleted a protein called Prod that binds to a specific satellite DNA sequence in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, the flies' chromosomes scattered outside of the nucleus into tiny globs of cellular material called micronuclei, and the flies died. "But we realized at this point that this [piece of] satellite DNA that was bound by the Prod protein was completely missing in the nearest relatives of Drosophila melanogaster," Jagannathan said. "It completely doesn't exist. So that's an interesting little problem." Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 24, 2021
Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Plants
stasis
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Fossil spores on land pushed back 20 million years

News
August 24, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Plants, stasis
2
The big story here isn’t about the disconnect between molecular and fossil data; it’s about how early on more complex life forms got started (all that complexity in such a short time isn’t looking good for random mutations). Read More ›