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Year

2021

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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 26, 2021
Categories
Cell biology
Intelligent Design
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Of 70,000 hitherto unknown viruses in the human gut, over 40% of proteins had no clear function

News
February 26, 2021
Cell biology, Intelligent Design
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The reader comments that viruses cannot afford to carry around much non-functioning nucleic acid. More likely, the 43% that are mystery proteins do have a function. If even viruses are much more complex than we expect, what chance that all these complex systems arose by natural selection acting on random mutations (Darwinism)? Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 26, 2021
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extinction
Intelligent Design
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Asteroid hit dino extinction theory strengthened by asteroid dust found in crater

News
February 26, 2021
extinction, Intelligent Design
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The asteroid theory replaced any number of folk Darwinian theories about why the dinosaurs died out. You know the sort of thing: They were too big; they were too stupid to look after their eggs; mammals ate their eggs… Etc. Many non-dinos went extinct too. Small mammals may have found it easier to hide. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 26, 2021
Categories
Education
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Racism
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Jonathan Bartlett: Antiracism in Math Promotes Racism and Bad Math

News
February 26, 2021
Education, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Racism
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Bartlett: … one thing that is helpful for parents, students, and teachers is for students to show their work. I know it can be hard to get students to do this. My own children hate to do it. However, being explicit about the steps in their reasoning is important for a number of reasons. First, showing their work helps students with harder problems... So, what does Equitable Math say about this practice? According to their published guide, "White supremacy culture shows up in math class when students are required to show their work" Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 25, 2021
Categories
Intelligent Design
Plants
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Caterpillars stifle plants’ chemical warning cries

News
February 25, 2021
Intelligent Design, Plants
2
Findings: "We have discovered a new strategy whereby an insect uses saliva to inhibit the release of airborne plant defenses through direct manipulation of plant stomata," said Gary Felton, professor and head of the Department of Entomology at Penn State, noting that stomata are tiny pores on plant leaves that regulate gas exchange" Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 25, 2021
Categories
Intelligent Design
Media
Science
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At American Thinker: Science reporting is one of the saddest casualties of the schools of journalism

News
February 25, 2021
Intelligent Design, Media, Science
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Okay, but many papers can’t be replicated and many journals have gone Woke too. So it may not matter as much as Arvay thinks. Maybe it doesn’t matter much that the reporting is just as bad as the studies. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 25, 2021
Categories
Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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At Oscillations: Suzan Mazur wonders what’s got into Eugene Koonin and Dieter Braun

News
February 25, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
2
Readers may recall Eugene Koonin as not particularly a Darwinian. As of 2018, Dieter Braun was more ambivalent. But Mazur notes that something has changed. Is it some light they have seen or has someone warned them to be more submissive? Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 24, 2021
Categories
Academic Freedom
Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design

Eric Hedin, that Ball State physicist whose ID course was Cancelled, has a new book out

News
February 24, 2021
Academic Freedom, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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The funny thing is that Darwinian evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne , who spearheaded getting Hedin's course cancelled, is often heard wittering these days about people he approves of — or doesn’t disapprove of — getting Cancelled. And it’s not likely he will ever get the significance of the role he played in starting the ball rolling. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 23, 2021
Categories
Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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Tim Standish responds to Terrell Clemmons on Darwinism

News
February 23, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Standish: The impossible task that Darwinists have is not just to show that what they propose is possible, it is to show that this is what actually happened, not just with one or two genes or traits or morphologies or whatever else you want to look at, but with the whole lot. They are masters at picking ambiguous and exceptional examples and treating them as if they are the rule. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 23, 2021
Categories
Intelligent Design
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Winston Ewert discusses the dependency graph of life

News
February 23, 2021
Intelligent Design
2
In a 2018 article which merits continued discussion: This hypothesis postulates that different biological species share modules related by a dependency graph. We evaluate several predictions made by this model about both biological and synthetic data, finding them to be fulfilled. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 23, 2021
Categories
Animal minds
Intelligent Design
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Why do researchers need to try to prove that animals have personalities?

News
February 23, 2021
Animal minds, Intelligent Design
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Mammals, birds, and reptiles differ by ability but those that have been studied seem to have individual personalities within the frame of their intelligence. What they don’t have or make little use of is abstract reasoning. Read More ›