2022 January | Uncommon Descent

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
January 4, 2022

Categories
Big Bang
Intelligent Design}

At The Conversation: How could the Big Bang arise from nothing?

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January 4, 2022

Big Bang, Intelligent Design

1}

Wait. There is a simpler explanation: In the beginning, the Lord created the heavens and the earth. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
January 4, 2022

Categories
Exoplanets
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, rogue planets}

Here’s a new one for coffee hour: Rogue planets

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January 4, 2022

Exoplanets, Intelligent Design

1}

At ScienceDaily: Rogue planets are elusive cosmic objects that have masses comparable to those of the planets in our Solar System but do not orbit a star, instead roaming freely on their own. Read More ›

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post

Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
January 4, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Rob Sheldon}

The million to one statistical fluke that creates our universe

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January 4, 2022

Intelligent Design

3}

Sheldon: the "Hubble Tension" has increased as the numbers didn't budge, but the error bars kept getting smaller. We are now some 8 sigma apart. Read More ›

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post

Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
January 4, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Science}

Researcher found guilty of lying about links to China

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January 4, 2022

Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science

2}

At Harvard Crimson: Jurors deliberated for just shy of three hours before coming to a verdict Tuesday evening. Lieber showed little reaction as the decision was read in court. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
January 3, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Sun (as yellow dwarf star)}

Another example of our earthly uniqueness

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January 3, 2022

Intelligent Design

2}

Michelle Starr: Since red dwarfs are so abundant, and so stable, and since we shouldn't automatically consider ourselves to be cosmically special, the fact we're not orbiting a red dwarf should therefore be somewhat surprising. Read More ›

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post

Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
January 3, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, Tyler O'Neil}

At Fox News: Adam and Eve are compatible with evolution

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January 3, 2022

Intelligent Design

2}

When we consider the huge difference between human beings and any other life form on the planet, it is more reasonable to assume that we had one pair of ancestors than that we had many. Read More ›

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post

Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
January 3, 2022

Categories
Cosmology
Multiverse
Physics}

Why (some) physicists think a multiverse exists

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January 3, 2022

Cosmology, Multiverse, Physics

2}

As stated by Ethan Siegel, it sounds like nonsense. But Siegel makes it sound like physics, which is certainly a feat. Read More ›

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post

Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
January 3, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Science}

How do we distinguish between science and pseudoscience?

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January 3, 2022

Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science

2}

Michael Gordin: The gray area is produced by the fact that almost every significant new scientific claim can potentially be the subject of controversy, the fuel that powers the cycles of credit and reputation. Read More ›

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post

Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
January 3, 2022

Categories
Philosophy
Science}

Does philosophy make better scientists?

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January 3, 2022

Philosophy, Science

2}

Shraim: Most of us have a foundational understanding in this area — but, as a philosophy student, I was required to take a structured course in logic. At the start, it was like taking a class in brain-teaser puzzles: A∨B is true if both A and B are true; A∧B is true if either A or B is true. Read More ›

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post

Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
January 2, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics}

If math is a reality, atheism is dead

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January 2, 2022

Intelligent Design, Mathematics

2}

At ScienceAlert: Earlier this year, researchers discovered what they described as a previously unknown law of nature: a growth pattern which describes how pointed shapes form again and again in nature – from shark teeth and spider fangs to bird beaks and dinosaur horns. Read More ›

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post

Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
January 2, 2022

Categories
Atheism
Intelligent Design
theism}

A teenager does a good job of explaining the existence of God.

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January 2, 2022

Atheism, Intelligent Design, theism

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If it weren’t for God, you would not know anything at all. Hat tip: Philip Cunningham

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post

Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
January 2, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Trust the science mantra}

We’ve all heard about the “fact-checking” nonsense but…

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January 2, 2022

Intelligent Design

3}

Fact-checking merely amounts to ensuring that media are towing the Correct line. Nothing to do with facts as such, like the nurse risking her career to hold the dying baby. Read More ›

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post

Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
January 2, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, tardigrades, water bears}

Water bears (tardigrades) create a puzzle re evolution of walking

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January 2, 2022

Evolution

2}

At Ars Technica: Specifically, as the tardigrades sped up, they would transition between having five legs on the ground, then four legs on the ground, then three legs on the ground—just like insects and arthropods, despite a 20-million-year evolutionary gap between them. " Read More ›

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post

Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
January 2, 2022

Categories
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Joe Miller}

Casey Luskin, geologist, doesn’t make nice with Darwinians

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January 2, 2022

Darwinism, Intelligent Design

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In recent years, the ever-compliant US evangelicals have been making nice with the Darwinians* (nature read in tooth and claw, and all that). Casey Luskin did not get the memo. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
January 1, 2022

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design}

Well, if the universe is actually a fractal, how can we not live in a designed universe?

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January 1, 2022

Cosmology, Intelligent Design

1}

Ethan Siegel: The Universe isn’t a true fractal, but even in the realms where it’s only approximately a fractal, there are still some compelling cosmic lessons just waiting to be learned. Read More ›