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Year

2022

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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 2, 2022
Categories
Artificial Intelligence
Intelligent Design
Mind
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At Mind Matters News: Eric Holloway asks, Is AlphaZero Actually Superior to the Human Mind?

News
March 2, 2022
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind
2
What is actually remarkable is the sheer amount of processing power needed to bring computers up to the level of even the most basic human player! This indicates the human mind is doing something totally different and extraordinarily more efficient than the best AI algorithms we have today. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 2, 2022
Categories
horizontal gene transfer
Plants
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Researchers: Bacteria provided plants with genes to colonize land

News
March 2, 2022
horizontal gene transfer, Plants
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Again, we ask, if so, in a world where horizontal gene transfer is this extensive and significant, what becomes of all the carefully structured Darwinian tales of the gradual development of selective advantage? Aren’t they just evolutionary fiction, a form of historical fiction? Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 2, 2022
Categories
Intelligent Design
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Zoom call with biochemist James Shapiro on the re-release of Evolution: A view from the 21st century

News
March 2, 2022
Intelligent Design
2
From the zoom invite: "The earliest proponent of “natural genetic engineering” as a basic feature of evolution, he has been a leading scientific critic of orthodox evolutionary theory for 20 years." Read More ›
Type
post
Date
March 1, 2022
Categories
Academic Freedom
Control vs Anarchy
Intelligent Design
Lessons of History
Media
Medicine
News Highlights
rhetoric
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A media bias takedown by the Frontline Doctors

kairosfocus
March 1, 2022
Academic Freedom, Control vs Anarchy, Intelligent Design, Lessons of History, Media, Medicine, News Highlights, rhetoric
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If you needed a case study on loaded language driven slanted reporting, here is a case study that deserves to be headlined: For context, see the de-spin chart: Remember, this has been with lives on the line. END

Type
post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 1, 2022
Categories
Culture
Intelligent Design
Science
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At Mind Matters News: Detecting BS data: If it’s too good to be true, it probably is

News
March 1, 2022
Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
2
Business prof Gary Smith: A recent Wall Street Journal article shows a near-perfect link between inflation and money. But a link that near-perfect raises suspicions. Precise predictions of human behavior are implausible and rarely match up to the far more complicated reality. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 1, 2022
Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin Of Life
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Paradox: Why wasn’t our planet frozen solid in the early solar system?

News
March 1, 2022
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
3
The only thing current researchers are sure of is that they do NOT like the term “paradox.” That said, they do not have a clear answer, just a number of evidence-based speculations. So it’s still a paradox until the word itself gets Cancelled. And it will still be what it is anyway. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 28, 2022
Categories
Big Bang
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
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Sabine Hossenfelder asks: Will the Big Bang repeat?

News
February 28, 2022
Big Bang, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
2
Hossenfelder: I am not sure that CCC actually solves the problem it was supposed to solve. Remember we are trying to explain the past hypothesis. But a scientific explanation shouldn’t be more difficult than the thing you’re trying to explain. And CCC requires some assumptions, about the conformal invariance and the erebons, that at least to me don’t seem any better than the past hypothesis. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 28, 2022
Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Multiverse
Physics
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At Mind Matters News: Astrophysicists lock horns over whether multiverse must exist

News
February 28, 2022
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Multiverse, Physics
3
Inflation is only one factor; other sources weigh in on issues around math, testability, reality-based thinking, and, inevitably, what God would do. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 27, 2022
Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin Of Life
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Why the origin of life is not reducible to physics

News
February 27, 2022
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
3
Just look what the hopeful researchers have to say in order to claim that. They are not able to get away from the need for design. Their actual claims sound panpsychist, which would be fine if it were admitted. Then we could at least discuss things honestly. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 27, 2022
Categories
Exoplanets
Extraterrestrial life
Intelligent Design
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At Mind Matters News: Former astronaut names planet he thinks most likely to have life

News
February 27, 2022
Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
2
Chris Hadfield points to Kepler-442b as Earth-like but some researchers defend the possibility of life even on tidally locked planets, in “edge” zones. Read More ›