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2022

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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 12, 2022
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Christian Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Media
theistic evolution
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Ultra-In mag New Yorker: “For our nation and our species, the future depends” on Francis Collins’s success…

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April 12, 2022
Christian Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Media, theistic evolution
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One way of looking at it: In light of the appalling treatment of infants under Collins’s regime, he is just the sort of individual that the New Yorker would want to represent evangelical Christians — or any other group that its staff despise. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 12, 2022
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horizontal gene transfer
Intelligent Design
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Researchers shed light on how horizontal gene transfer triggers antibiotic resistance

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April 12, 2022
horizontal gene transfer, Intelligent Design
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At ScienceDaily: "Yi's experiments were designed to test this possible pathway that explains how different pathogens actually get resistance from environmental species," You said. "And he demonstrated that not only is this possible, it's also very likely." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 11, 2022
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Information
Intelligent Design
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Eric Holloway: Does information weigh something after all? What if it does?

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April 11, 2022
Information, Intelligent Design
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Holloway: If [Melvin] Vopson is correct we now have a mystery because his theory is in tension with the conservation of energy. The only solution is that the system is not closed. So where is the opening in the system? If the system is physically closed, then the influx of information must come from outside the physical realm. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 11, 2022
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Intelligent Design
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Neil Thomas on “The Dawkinsian Mythology”

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April 11, 2022
Intelligent Design
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Thomas: In the course of opposing Dawkins’s attempt to extend further the Darwinian imperium into the realm of “universal Darwinism,” philosopher Anthony Flew even disputed whether the term “natural selection” had any genuine meaning at all, questioning the selective power Darwin claimed for it. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 11, 2022
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Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Racism
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At Skeptic mag: Colleague defends Darwinian great E. O. Wilson from accusations of racism

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April 11, 2022
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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But again, wait. Racism wasn’t an incidental, culturally conditioned element in Rushton’s work. It appears to have been the point of it. If the great E. O. Wilson couldn’t see that, the likely explanation is that elements in Darwinism blinded him to what was pretty obvious to most of Rushton’s fellow Canadians. And why IS that? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 10, 2022
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Intelligent Design
Neuroscience
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David Coppedge: Brain neurons “comparable to a library”

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April 10, 2022
Intelligent Design, Neuroscience
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David Coppedge: Researchers at Max Planck, Rockefeller, and Duke Universities examined the connections in brain tissue from the visual cortex, the first stop for information coming in from the retina. It was a tall order. A news item from Max Planck, “No cable spaghetti in the brain,” describes the cabling nightmare... Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 10, 2022
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Religion
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Is Christianity Today twisting the Bible to fit Darwinian evolution?

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April 10, 2022
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Religion
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Gilson: Christianity Today is supposed to be the voice of evangelical Christianity. Here, though, it has totally capitulated to a naturalized view of human origins. It’s giving in to a view that many evangelicals reject for good scientific reasons. Note: Gilson ends by recommending skeptic Neil Thomas’s Taking Leave of Darwin (2021) instead. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 9, 2022
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Religion
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Eye evolution as a series of miracles of the Darwinian religion

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April 9, 2022
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Religion
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Surely the best approach is to see these convenient cascades of functional machinery as the miracle stories of Darwinism. They are not subject to criticism as to their probability, which is why no Darwinian need take such criticism seriously. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 8, 2022
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Racism
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People who doubt “evolution” are more likely to be racist?

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April 8, 2022
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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Reader's comment on the study: The principle that isolation breeds prejudice against the “other” is a truism. And you could find evidence supporting this truism from very different groups. If you surveyed attitude of ivory tower types you’d find similar prejudiced against conservative religious groups you’d find similar discriminatory attitudes. Why? Because those evolutionary secular academic types who accept human evolution have very little contact with conservative religious people. Read More ›