Uncommon Descent Serving The Intelligent Design Community

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Denyse O'Leary
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January 24, 2022
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, science education
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But Wasn’t Eugenie Scott PAID to Confuse People?

Denyse O'Leary
January 24, 2022
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, science education
If Scott had so far forgotten her disinformation mission that she actually made distinctions between ID and creationism, she would end up triggering the thing she would most want to avoid: Serious reasons why a reasonable person might doubt Darwinism. Her organization’s mission was to prevent that. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 23, 2022
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Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind
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At Mind Matters News: Chalmers and Penrose clash over “conscious computers”

Denyse O'Leary
January 23, 2022
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind
Holloway: There are hard, practical reasons why computers cannot understand concepts like “infinity” and “truth” and therefore cannot be conscious. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 23, 2022
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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String theory again: Will a correction to Einstein save it?

Denyse O'Leary
January 23, 2022
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
At times, the advocacy for string theory begins to sound a bit like a religion. But, in an important sense, it IS a religion. They’re trying to make sense of the universe and eventually, that shades into metaphysics. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 23, 2022
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Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Did Victorian sexism influence Darwin’s theory of sexual selection? Of course it did.

Denyse O'Leary
January 23, 2022
Darwinism, Intelligent Design
We hope this sort of discussion won’t lead to efforts to “deplatform” Darwin because there are lots of discussions we need to have. The good news is that, after all these years, it looks like we are beginning to have some of them. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 21, 2022
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Intelligent Design, theistic evolution
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BioLogos hopes to calm the fears of ignorant Christians about “evolution”

Denyse O'Leary
January 21, 2022
Intelligent Design, theistic evolution
What some of us find curious is that Christian evolutionists so seldom want to grasp the fact that the problem for most Christians is Darwinism, which is an explicitly materialist and naturalist theory of everything. The problem is not “evolution” as in antibiotics. Read More ›