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2021

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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 22, 2021
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Intelligent Design
Peer review
Philosophy
Science
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At Wall Street Journal: Science needs critics, not cheerleaders

News
February 22, 2021
Intelligent Design, Peer review, Philosophy, Science
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From an interview with John Staddon we learn that constructive criticism is more useful than cheerleading when one’s game needs work. One outcome of the problems Staddon describes is that “trust the science” is becoming something of a joke in a broad variety of areas and that is not good news. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 21, 2021
Categories
'Junk DNA'
Culture
Darwinism
Genetics
Genomics
Intelligent Design
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The human genome at 20. We have some answers but way more questions now.

News
February 21, 2021
'Junk DNA', Culture, Darwinism, Genetics, Genomics, Intelligent Design
2
At The Conversation on junk DNA: Bewilderingly, scientists found that the non-coding genome was actually responsible for the majority of information that impacted disease development in humans. Such findings have made it clear that the non-coding genome is actually far more important than previously thought. Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 21, 2021
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Intelligent Design
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New paper by Steiner Thorvaldsen on intelligent design and natural theology

News
February 21, 2021
Intelligent Design
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Thorvaldsen: Intelligent Design is a relatively new scientific research program that investigates the effects of intelligent sources, and challenges basic parts of contemporary Darwinism. Fred Hoyle first issued the ideas of Intelligent Design in modern times when he discovered the unique energy level of the carbon atom in the 1950s. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 21, 2021
Categories
Artificial Intelligence
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Physics
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Sabine Hossenfelder explains why she thinks that the computer sim universe is pseudoscience

News
February 21, 2021
Artificial Intelligence, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physics
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Hossenfelder: You can approximate the laws that we know with a computer simulation – we do this all the time – but if that was how nature actually worked, we could see the difference. Indeed, physicists have looked for signs that natural laws really proceed step by step, like in a computer code, but their search has come up empty handed. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 20, 2021
Categories
Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Origin Of Life
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Researchers: A form of Darwinism preceded and enabled the origin of life

News
February 20, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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Those of us who are already skeptical of the immense role Darwinism is supposed to play after life already exists will find this prebiotic Darwinism hard to swallow. But reader Eric Anderson writes to assure us that that is in fact what origin of life researchers really do believe. Question: If it’s that simple, why isn’t life coming into existence from non-life all the time? As opposed to, say, never? Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 20, 2021
Categories
Genomics
Human evolution
Intelligent Design
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Interesting new items from the Neanderthal genome

News
February 20, 2021
Genomics, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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At Sapiens: Thanks to this work, we now know details about Neanderthals that the archaeological record alone could never have provided. For example, fragments of DNA from specimens found in Spain and Italy showed that at least some Neanderthals likely had pale skin and reddish hair—although, interestingly, the variations for this coloring are different from the variants found in modern humans. Apparently, redheads among Homo sapiens evolved separately… Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 20, 2021
Categories
Exoplanets
Extraterrestrial life
Intelligent Design
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Ethan Siegel tells us why he thinks colonizing super-Earths would end in disaster

News
February 20, 2021
Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
2
Siegel thinks that a rocky planet of more than 30% greater radius than Earth stands a good change of becoming a gas giant in consequence of its size. Earth is the right size to avoid that. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 19, 2021
Categories
Genetics
Intelligent Design
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Sequencing oldest DNA ever from mammoths provides a window into limits on recovering DNA

News
February 19, 2021
Genetics, Intelligent Design
3
At Smithsonian Magazine: That Mammuthus columbi originated as a new species, born of a hybridization event, “has major implications for our understanding of the population structure of Pleistocene megabeasts,” MacPhee says. The ancestors of the woolly mammoth and the Krestova mammoth had diverged from each other for about a million years before a population produced a hybrid that was different from both, giving rise to Mammuthus columbi. Read More ›