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Denyse O'Leary
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May 27, 2021
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Big Science: Questioning the lab leak theory of COVID-19 is “divisive”

Denyse O'Leary
May 27, 2021
Culture, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Science
Oh sure. Reality check: Millions of people have died in this debacle. That’s nothing new for the Chinese Communist Party. But it’s a bit of a kick in the head for the rest of us. If distinguishing between truth and lies is “divisive,” so be it. The Nature article is a shameful display. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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May 27, 2021
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At YouTube: How Evolution Can Still Be Evidence of Design

Denyse O'Leary
May 27, 2021
Intelligent Design, theistic evolution
The point of view Dr. Rope Kojonen (philosopher/theologian) and Dr. Zachary Ardern represent was, we are told, pioneered by Asa Gray (1810–1888, pictured), father of American botany. Gray is remembered now only as a foil for Darwin (as portrayed in the Britannica entry here). But he deserves to be remembered and have his views represented fairly in his own right. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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May 27, 2021
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Do we really understand what intelligence in life forms is?

Denyse O'Leary
May 27, 2021
Animal minds, Intelligent Design
Thinking about Jeff Hawkins's new book, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence (Basic Books 2021), championing the mammalian neocortex, for example, one might ask, what does the iconic mammalian neocortex do that equivalent systems in birds and octopuses can’t do? That’s not clear. And human intelligence is something different again. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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May 26, 2021
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Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy
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Are there really any “primitive” animals?

Denyse O'Leary
May 26, 2021
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy
Our philosopher and photographer friend Laszlo Bencze proposes a cultural reason why Darwinism sounds believable. He points out that Charles Darwin lived in an era of continuous mechanical improvements. Did that shape his — and others’ — optimism about things that “just sort of happen” in nature? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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May 26, 2021
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How Big Tech manufactured a science “consensus” against a lab leak of COVID-19

Denyse O'Leary
May 26, 2021
Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
It’s one thing to trust Darwinblither, just to take an example, when nothing immediate is at stake. But if we agree that COVID-19 is a problem, let’s evaluate more carefully what we have been told on the Authority of Science. And take in the fact that Big Tech backed up the Authority of Science when it was obviously way off base. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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May 25, 2021
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The COVID-19 saga is getting people talking about bogus scientific consensus

Denyse O'Leary
May 25, 2021
Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
For some months there has been a bogus consensus that the theory that the virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan was a crackpot conspiracy theory. Then the dam broke. People may understand the concept better now. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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May 25, 2021
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Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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Michael Flannery on the attack on Darwin’s Descent of Man in AAAS’s mag Science

Denyse O'Leary
May 25, 2021
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
Flannery reveals something interesting: "Thomas Henry Huxley, Darwin’s indefatigable “Bulldog,” wrote a shameful essay on May 20, 1865, shortly after the conclusion of the American Civil War. He suggested that the South should be relieved given that it was no longer responsible for the care and “protection” of the now-former slaves." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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May 24, 2021
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'Junk DNA', Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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At Evolution News: “Junk DNA” needed for limb formation

Denyse O'Leary
May 24, 2021
'Junk DNA', Human evolution, Intelligent Design
At Nature: “A new study in Nature underscores just how important noncoding DNA can be for human development. The authors show that deletions in a noncoding region of DNA on chromosome 2 cause severe congenital limb abnormalities. This is the first time a human disease has been definitively linked to mutations in noncoding DNA, says lead author Stefan Mundlos, head of the development and disease research group at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, Germany.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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May 24, 2021
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Columbia University mathematician Peter Woit offers a shrewd assessment of Stephen Hawking and pop physics

Denyse O'Leary
May 24, 2021
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
Hawking was looking for a unified theory and Woit thinks the idea is pretty much discredited now: "We now live in an environment where the idea that there may be a deeper, more unified theory has become completely discredited, through the efforts of many, with Hawking playing an unfortunate part." Read More ›