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Denyse O'Leary
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January 28, 2022
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Exoplanets, Intelligent Design
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An exotic exoplanet we might want to view up close through a telescope but not visit

Denyse O'Leary
January 28, 2022
Exoplanets, Intelligent Design
At Phys.org: One particularly interesting substance the team found is a gas containing titanium: titanium oxide. While titanium oxide is very scarce on Earth, it could play an important role in the atmosphere of WASP-189b. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 28, 2022
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Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience
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At Mind Matters News: Neuroscience mystery: How do tiny brains enable complex behavior?

Denyse O'Leary
January 28, 2022
Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience
Eric Cassell notes that insects with brains of only a million neurons exhibit principles found only in the most advanced man-made navigation systems. How? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 27, 2022
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horizontal gene transfer, Intelligent Design
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Whitefly steals genes from plants; perhaps to detoxify plant defenses

Denyse O'Leary
January 27, 2022
horizontal gene transfer, Intelligent Design
If horizontal gene transfer turns out to be widespread, it will confound carefully worked out Darwinian claims about how “evolution” did this and that via natural selection acting on random mutation. With the whitefly, things didn’t happen that way at all. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 27, 2022
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Intelligent Design, Just For Fun, Philosophy, Science
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At Medium: Six scientific paradoxes on offer that will “blow your mind”

Denyse O'Leary
January 27, 2022
Intelligent Design, Just For Fun, Philosophy, Science
Dinelka: Imagine you are a time traveler. You decide to meet the great greek philosopher, Pythagoras of Samos, and introduce him to the fantastic relation among the three sides of the right-angled triangle. You introduce and you leave ... Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 26, 2022
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Cell biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design
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It just so happens that essential genes are protected from mutations

Denyse O'Leary
January 26, 2022
Cell biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design
At The Scientist: Monroe and his colleagues found evidence of specific epigenetic characteristics such as cytosine methylation that prevent mutations from occurring in those regions, not unlike protective barriers. These structures and the variability in mutation rates within a single organism’s genome, Monroe says, suggest that “evolution created mechanisms that changed how evolution works.” Read More ›
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Jonathan Bartlett
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January 26, 2022
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Intelligent Design

Michael Levin on the Engineering Approach to Biology

Jonathan Bartlett
January 26, 2022
Intelligent Design

Michael Levin puts into words the general understanding of the ID community regarding the relevance of design/engineering understandings of the cell, and how intuitions from computer science and other engineering disciplines relate to biology. Starting around 8:30 in the clip below: Computer science is all about understanding how to build things… You don’t really understand something until you can build one yourself. At the same time, one of the most powerful concepts in computer science is device independence – the idea that you can carry out an algorithm and it’s the same computation whether it’s made of microchips or beer cans and string or living cells or whatever it’s going to be. This is an important concept and it’s a Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
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January 25, 2022
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Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
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Present day Martian groundwater a mirage, researchers say

Denyse O'Leary
January 25, 2022
Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
U Texas Austin: The researchers think their conclusion -- volcanic rock buried under ice -- is a more plausible explanation for the 2018 discovery, which was already in question after scientists calculated the unlikely conditions needed to keep water in a liquid state at Mars' cold, arid south pole. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 25, 2022
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Intelligent Design, Mathematics
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Has a 243 year-old puzzle been solved via a “quantum solution”?

Denyse O'Leary
January 25, 2022
Intelligent Design, Mathematics
At Quanta: In a paper posted online and submitted to Physical Review Letters, a group of quantum physicists in India and Poland demonstrates that it is possible to arrange 36 officers in a way that fulfills Euler’s criteria — so long as the officers can have a quantum mixture of ranks and regiments. Read More ›