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Denyse O'Leary
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December 9, 2021
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Woke world destroys Darwinian evolutionary biologist

Denyse O'Leary
December 9, 2021
Academic Freedom, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
Those other evolutionary biologists had better get with the program and denounce Colin Wright, right? Or just shut up and stay shut up. From an old source: Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind. We’d be happy to help but we can only help people who think that intellectual freedom is not negotiable. It must be okay to criticize Darwin too. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 9, 2021
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Classic in devolution: Burrowing snakes have poor eyesight, challenging theory

Denyse O'Leary
December 9, 2021
Evolution
This find challenges the hypothesis that all snakes living across the world today evolved from extreme burrowers, because the vision genes lost in scolecophidians are present in most other living snakes. The researchers say it would be extremely unlikely for such genetic deficiencies to have been reversed through evolution. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 9, 2021
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Information, Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism, Neuroscience
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At Mind Matters News: Why neuroscientist Mark Solms is no materialist

Denyse O'Leary
December 9, 2021
Information, Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism, Neuroscience
Mark Solms: Information, in neuroscience, is a crucial concept, and it’s very hard to think about quantum physics and the big questions that are unsolved that flow from it without the concept of information — which, I hasten to draw your attention to the fact, is not matter. I’m not a materialist for exactly that reason. Read More ›
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Barry Arrington
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December 9, 2021
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Intelligent Design

Please Support UD

Barry Arrington
December 9, 2021
Intelligent Design

It is time for my annual plea for support of our work. Everyone has heard of a “shoestring budget.”  But did you know that UD gets by on an “aglet budget”?  What is an aglet? you ask.  An aglet is that little plastic sheath at the end of a shoestring.  That’s right.  Our budget is so small that we only wish we could get by on a shoestring.  All of which is prelude to our annual holiday fundraising drive.  If you have benefited from our News Desk’s tireless chasing of the latest ID-related happenings, or KF’s in-depth analysis of the fundamentals, or any of our other UD features, please consider a donation to help fund our efforts.  The Donate button Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
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December 8, 2021
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Animal minds, Intelligent Design
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At the Scientist: The spider web as a “giant engineered ear”

Denyse O'Leary
December 8, 2021
Animal minds, Intelligent Design
As Dan Robitzki puts it, they “outsource” their hearing to the web (like the web was a microphone?) Quoted at The Scientist: “Evolutionarily speaking, spiders are just weird animals,” Jessica Petko, a Pennsylvania State University York biologist who didn’t work on the new study, writes in an email to The Scientist. “While it has been long known that spiders sense sound vibration with sensory hairs on their legs, this paper is the first to show that orb weaving spiders can amplify this sound by building specialized web structures.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 8, 2021
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Cosmology, Fine tuning, Physics
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Can gravitational waves help account for why there is more matter than antimatter?

Denyse O'Leary
December 8, 2021
Cosmology, Fine tuning, Physics
“not an electric charge, but some sort of charge”? Okay… At least we are still in the world of hard science here. One thing: They had better trademark the name Q-ball. If their idea takes off, they will be glad they did. Go Q-balls! Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 7, 2021
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At Claremont Review of Books: “The God Hypothesis should be considered as a possible explanation for our universe.”

Denyse O'Leary
December 7, 2021
Books of interest, Intelligent Design
Reviewer: Meyer argues that the materialist assumption now poses an obstruction to understanding, compelling scientists to embrace implausible and untestable hypotheses as a defense against the God hypothesis... But Gelernter and Nagel make a good case that religious zealotry, and a refusal to debate the facts honestly, now characterize Meyer’s opponents more than they do Meyer and his supporters. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 7, 2021
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Bryozoa add to Cambrian Explosion’s impact: 35 million years earlier than thought

Denyse O'Leary
December 7, 2021
Cambrian explosion, Intelligent Design
So they are complex and that much closer to the dawn of life. At ENST: In Nature News and Views, Andrej Ernst and Mark A. Wilson write, “Bryozoan fossils found at last in deposits from the Cambrian period.” They had been “conspicuously absent” till now. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 7, 2021
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At Mind Matters News: Nautilus offers a primer on panpsychism

Denyse O'Leary
December 7, 2021
Intelligent Design, Mind, Philosophy, Science
"What’s really interesting about [Massimo Pigliucci’s anti-panpsychism] comments is that even a decade or so ago, his was an utterly conventional view. Now he feels he must qualify it by saying “But that’s just one perspective and one way to look at it.” It seems that fewer researchers today expect the “Hard Problem of Consciousness” to suddenly yield to a new research finding — a situation that leaves many looking with interest and sympathy at a non-naturalist approach like panpsychism." Read More ›