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Denyse O'Leary
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January 31, 2022
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John West explains why Discovery Institute will start speaking up about science totalitarianism around COVID

Denyse O'Leary
January 31, 2022
Intelligent Design, Laws, Media, Science
COVID-19 has been used as the rationale for an extraordinary expansion of government power in the name of science... COVID has shown government officials how to do an end-run around the normal system of checks and balances. They simply need to invoke “science” and declare an emergency — and then extend their emergency orders time and again. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 31, 2022
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Animal minds, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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At Mind Matters News: Can animal behavior simply be transferred into the genome?

Denyse O'Leary
January 31, 2022
Animal minds, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
Eric Cassell: I think it’s such a daunting task to try to explain how something is sophisticated as an algorithm, particularly a mathematical type of algorithm, could have evolved in the first place. It has to be in the genome somehow. And then that information that’s in the genome has to be encoded in a neural network when the brain develops, and then it all has to be run, as the animal is performing the behavior. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 31, 2022
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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How Newton’s model of mechanical universe paved the way for uncritical acceptance of Darwinism

Denyse O'Leary
January 31, 2022
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
The thing about such models is that they receive a great deal of social support and a person who diligently enquires into the evidence, exposing defects, is treated with — at best — suspicion. Not a healthy situation for honest inquiry. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 31, 2022
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design
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What Sabine Hossenfelder hopes the James Webb telescope will do

Denyse O'Leary
January 31, 2022
Cosmology, Intelligent Design
Hossenfelder: What you can see from this graph is that if this theory is correct there basically shouldn’t be any large galaxies at very early times... If the Webb telescope sees large galaxies anyhow, then that’s going to be very difficult to explain with dark matter. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 30, 2022
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Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, Religion
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At Mind Matters News: Will religions crumble if we find extraterrestrial life?

Denyse O'Leary
January 30, 2022
Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, Religion
At Insider: "Davison also wrote in the book, which is set to be released in 2022, that the nonreligious community tended to "overestimate the challenges that religious people" might face if evidence of extraterrestrial life were discovered. " Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 30, 2022
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Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Religion
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William Lane Craig’s non-historical Adam — and marriage and divorce

Denyse O'Leary
January 30, 2022
Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Religion
Jason Lisle at the Biblical Science Institute offers an eight part series on the topic; this is from the wrap-up, where he addresses Craig's suggestion that Jesus did not take Genesis literally re Adam and Eve. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 29, 2022
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Atheism, Intelligent Design
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Is “Many Worlds” an atheist war on quantum mechanics?

Denyse O'Leary
January 29, 2022
Atheism, Intelligent Design
Huyett: "As a graduate student in the 1950s, [Hugh] Everett was alarmed to discover that traditional quantum mechanics did not line up with his materialist commitments. He was repulsed by the fact that the human mind seemed to be given a special role—a conclusion that Everett thought smacked of the supernatural. " So he set out to change the approach via his Many Worlds hypothesis. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 29, 2022
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Cambrian explosion, Ediacaran, Geology, Intelligent Design
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Did glaciers cause a billion-year gap in information about the development of life?

Denyse O'Leary
January 29, 2022
Cambrian explosion, Ediacaran, Geology, Intelligent Design
At Vice: This giant lapse in Earth’s memory exceeds one billion years in some places, resulting in 550 million-year-old rocks sitting atop ancient layers that date back 1.7 billion years, with no trace of the many lost epochs in between… Read More ›
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January 29, 2022
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Epistemology, Intelligent Design, Logic and Reason, Mathematics, Philosophy

L&FP, 49: Debating the validity (and objectivity) of infinity

kairosfocus
January 29, 2022
Epistemology, Intelligent Design, Logic and Reason, Mathematics, Philosophy

Steve Patterson, among many points of objection, is doubtful on the modern concept of infinity (or more strictly the transfinite): The foundations of modern mathematics are flawed. A logical contradiction is nestled at the very core, and it’s been there for a century. Of all the controversial ideas I hold, this is the most radical. I disagree with nearly all professional mathematicians, and I think they’ve made an elementary error that most children would discover. It’s about infinity. I’ve written about infinity here, here, and here, and each article points to the same conclusion: There are no infinite sets. Not only do infinite sets not exist, but the very concept is logically contradictory – no different than “square circles”. Infinite Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
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January 28, 2022
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Evolution, Intelligent Design
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More examples of human-made “evolution,” which are changing the way evolution is seen

Denyse O'Leary
January 28, 2022
Evolution, Intelligent Design
"We have come a long way from the old view of evolution as a slow process to the point where we are now realizing that everything is evolving all around us all the time," says Andrew Hendry, a Professor of Biology at the Redpath Museum of McGill and the co-senior author on the paper recently published in Molecular Ecology. Read More ›